Blog entries tagged servers

On the importance of excellent web hosting for Joomla

Jen Kramer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:58:07 +0100

This is a topic covered in my recent book, but the question comes up all the time.

In the early static days of the web, there was really little difference between one host and another. You uploaded a bunch of HTML pages and images (and later a CSS file or two) and the web host just worked. There wasn't a lot of analysis to do for the average small business site. One host was pretty much as good as another.

Now we're working with Joomla. And now, when it comes to hosting, everyth...

The Absolute Importance of a Great Webhost

Jen Kramer — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Recently, we've been dealing with some web hosting issues with our current company. They've changed our tech support package on us, and they were bought out by another company -- all without one email communication to us. We found out after the fact.

The story has a happy ending, as we've found another great host, and we're in the process of moving our sites.

This isn't the first time in my web career that I've dealt with icky web hosts. Some cardinal rules of finding ...

Media Manager and mod_security

Bill Tomczak — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:00:00 +0100

It is well known that the media manager, fabulous as it is, has a history of quirky and difficult problems. As we moved our sites to our new server, I found another fun one.

Slowly I discovered a new (to me anyway) creature called mod_security. Our new server has it, the old one didn't. Should you find yourself similarly stumped, see if mod_security is installed. In the Joomla administrator, select Help/System Info from the menu and look in PHP Information. It will show up in the list o...

Moving to a new server

Bill Tomczak — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 +0100

While we were at Joomla Chicago, we met the good folk at midPhase.com. We were impressed and heard a number of good things about them.

In particular, Tom Canavan (author of Dodging the Bullets) rated their attention to security issues very highly. We like that in a webhost.

We signed up and have been moving our sites over to our very own new VPS. I am happy to report that they have been very helpful and patient with us as we find our way around our new virtual home. There h...