Your Website is Super Slow Because …

"Why is my site so slow?" is a question I get asked a lot. It’s not always an immediate thing — sometimes a site slows down over time, or after some changes have been made. But in general, there are a few things that nearly always contribute to a...

A Sad Tale of Webhosting Caution

A friend of mine went to his website to log in the other day, and all he saw was this: Without so much as an e-mail, his "lifetime plan" at his web hosting company went down in flames, with only the hint that they might be able to find his data if he...

Why Hosting Matters

I have often been asked why hosting matters for a web site. To many people, any cheap shared hosting will do. But is that the truth? Does it really not matter where you host your website? I think your choice of webhost is important — and by the end of this post,...

How to Buy a Domain Name

I thought about calling this post "how not to buy a domain" but I thought this sounded better. In any case, I’ve been doing development for a long, long time and I’ve dealt with all kinds of horror stories surrounding domains. To save you from...

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