Updated February 25, 2021 The State of Solid State Hard Disk Solid state drives (SSDs) are preferable to hard disk drives (HDDs) in various ways, such as speed and efficiency. They are a bit more expensive than HDDs, but the cost gap has narrowed during the last few years. Essentially, now the price is close […]

Launching an ecommerce site, while similar in many ways to other web endeavors, brings its own unique challenges and requirements. Your standard informational site has fairly easy content management and website hardware requirements are low in comparison to an ecommerce site which is much more resource hungry.   Depending on your level of expertise, you […]

Why a VPS is the right choice to grow your WordPress blog WordPress is the world’s most widely used content management system. The W3Techs market-share portal shows that WordPress is used by 27% of the sites it monitors, representing 59% of the content management system (CMS) market. If you don’t know, W3Techs is legit. “We […]

Being Linus Torvalds The story of Linux Things you wanted to know about CentOS but were afraid to ask CentOS is a particular distribution (aka distro) of the Linux operating system. Let’s look at Linux first to get a sense of that general technology and community, then take a direct look at this particular variation […]