“What does this even mean?”

As I work with a lot of clients whose sites have gotten hacked or infected, I get to see a lot of e-mails from the support staff at various major hosting companies. Our first introduction typically starts with the client forwarding me a notice from the hosting...

The Care and Feeding of Websites

This post is half a rant and half a lesson for all to learn — and 100% an exercise in bravery for saying it all. I’ll start out with the rant because I just have to get this off my chest before anyone gets hurt, and then we’ll talk about how you can...

How to Know You’ve Been Hacked

While the only real way to know if your WordPress site has been hacked is to examine the files on the server, I often hear common themes when people contact me to figure out what is going on with their site. I’ve compiled this list so that you can know what the...

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,...

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