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    500

    Over the past four or so months, I've been having a hell of a time with seeing 500 errors on my site.  And while I'm on my site a few hours a day, the amount of 500s my visitors must have seem is probably huge.  And that's...

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    Enable GZIP Compression on nginx Servers

    Speed kills, and there's nothing like a speedy website.  When you come to this blog, I want you to have a great experience, which is why I've worked tirelessly to compress every asset and avoid unnecessary synchronous interactions.  In reviewing my site with Google Pagespeed...

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    Hosting a Website on Amazon S3

    Everyone knows that Amazon S3 is great for storing files. It's fast, inexpensive, and easy to setup. What you may not realize is that you can also host static websites on this robust platform. What is a static website? In short, it's a website comprised of...

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    Who I Use: Hosting & Domain

    I get quite a few emails each day, but without a doubt, the most popular topic isn't support, recruiter, or request email; believe it or not, I'm most frequently asked who I use for my domain and hosting.  Can you blame people though?  Finding a good...

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    Fix WordPress CRONs on Media Temple (dv) Servers

    When I switched from Dreamhost shared hosting to Media Temple (dv) server hosting, I had a hell of a time trying to figure out why CRONs weren't working correctly on the website. I had database backups being sent via CRON jobs so making sure CRONs...

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    Fixing mod_rewrite and .htaccess on GoDaddy Hosting

    I recently launched a new website on GoDaddy shared hosting. The website required mod_rewrite for SEO-friendly URLs. GoDaddy provides mod_rewrite but every time I tried to hit a two-deep URL, I would get a 404 error. Here's what I had: The fix to this...

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    Important Notice: GeoCities is Closing.

    I just got the worst news of my life: Dear Yahoo! GeoCities customer, We're writing to let you know that Yahoo! GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009. On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the...

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    GoDaddy, cURL, HTTP, and 403 Errors

    I was recently coding PHP cURL functionality for a GoDaddy-hosted website and I kept running into an annoying 403 error. Essentially, GoDaddy's proxy server (which they force you to use for cURL) was giving me a "Forbidden" error and wasn't trying to hit the necessary...

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    PHP, Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), and IIS: Connect and Query with ODBC

    I was recently thrown a real curveball of a project. Instead of using a fresh MySQL database to pull information from, the customer required that we pull information from their new Microsoft SQL Server 2005 server. This isn't the most desired method of PHP->Database...

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    WHOIS Searches Using whois

    I used to do all of my WHOIS searches at a really popular website that I wont name here. I had to stop using the site because they decided to make you pay to use their tools. Next up was GoDaddy, who doesn't charge...