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How to Build Your E-Commerce Budget

Last Updated: March 9, 2023

Bob started a website selling organic beard balm. The expenses to launch the site ended up 248% higher than expected – prompting him to pull funds from marketing efforts that could have made many more people aware of his offerings. Ellen started a site focused on children’s apparel. Costs were 189% greater than she foresaw. […]

What Does “Unix-Like” Mean?

Last Updated: March 9, 2023

There is so much tech terminology and so little time – so it helps quite a bit when we can think of things within categories. In the case of operating systems, there are essentially two. There are the ones from Microsoft, descendants of Windows NT (for “new technology”). On the other side are basically the […]

The incredible popularity of WordPress gives hackers an incentive to go after it. Once they find a way in, they can replicate the attack across thousands or even millions of sites. One of the most prominent ways that the CMS has been attacked most recently is through a content-injection weakness that was identified early this […]

7 Tips to Prevent Downtime

Last Updated: August 4, 2020

Updated August 4, 2020 We’re starting to sound like a broken record when it comes to downtime, only because it’s so crucial, and most site owners aren’t aware of the true importance. 9 out of every 10 data center professionals say that management at their company is more focused on downtime than they were 12 […]