Use WP Super Cache for WordPress speed, not W3 Total Cache
We keep coming across WordPress customer sites that have hurt their performance by switching from the “WP Super Cache” plugin we recommend to a newer plugin named “W3 Total Cache”. Unfortunately, their...
View ArticlePreventing runaway MySQL queries
If you use a MySQL database with large tables, it’s possible to accidentally run queries that try to sort millions of rows (usually through some kind of programming error, such as an “unconstrained...
View ArticleNetwork slowness for some customers (resolved)
Between 7:00 and 7:45 PM Pacific time Thursday night (March 11), we received two reports of slow or nonexistent network connections to sites on our servers. Our automated monitoring systems didn’t...
View ArticleWe’re now using the dbl.spamhaus.org blocklist
We recently added the Spamhaus Domain Block List (dbl.spamhaus.org) to our spam filters. The Domain Block List is an extremely reliable list of domain names that are used only in spam. Blocking most...
View Article“Domain Registry Of America” scams continuing
We’ve recently heard from several customers who have received what appears to be a domain name renewal invoice from a company called “Domain Registry of America”. These “invoices” are a scam. Domain...
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