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Host Review: SiteGround

  • Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:42
  • Written by Dan Knauss

SiteGround in years past (pre-2007) did not disclose much about its people and their location(s). More recently they've become somewhat more transparent, professional, and personable, although they have always had a bit of the cluttered, GoDaddy-style "sell sell sell!" look, which I dislike and distrust. That said, SiteGround has been and is even more so today a decent source of inexpensive shared hosting with frequent promotions and discounts. Since 2007-2008 occasional slow service and outages seem to have become a thing of the past on individual Siteground shared hosting accounts I use or maintain, not that they were ever terribly common. (Response times in Q1 2010 for low-traffic, moderately sized Joomla sites are well under 1s, zero to minimal downtime within the 0-0.01% range.)

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Host Review: Nexcess

  • Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:40
  • Written by Dan Knauss

Nexcess, based outside of Detroit, is a family business that grew big. (On some ISPs there is a very direct, fast route between Milwaukee and Nexcess servers, which is nice.) They have their own first-rate data center, and the owners frequently handle even the lowliest customer support issues.

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Optimizing Joomla!

  • Sunday, 07 February 2010 23:04
  • Written by Dan Knauss

...and optimizing your server and database resources for Joomla

I recently went through the available extensions and best advice on the web for optimizing performance for Joomla 1.5 and put it to work on a couple of sites that needed improved load times. (It's all relevant to any other PHP/mySQL applications too.) Here are the best of the best methods, summarized in a handy checklist. Most of these tips apply to any other LAMP-based web application, especially other "CMS" software like Drupal and Wordpress--and vice versa. See this list of 13 Great WordPress Speed Tips and Tricks for Max Performance.

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Joomla News and Security Bulletins

  • Saturday, 06 February 2010 17:15
  • Written by Dan Knauss

Here is an expanded version of my previous "Pipe" to aggregate news of compromised third-party Joomla extensions, which I notice has been cloned by several Pipes users. 

This feed filters the National Vulnerability Database feed (http://nvd.nist.gov) to show only Joomla!-related alerts and adds the latest news from Joomla.org sources, including Security Alerts for Joomla! and Third Party Extensions.

 

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Joomla! perception vs. reality

  • Monday, 25 January 2010 22:26
  • Written by Dan Knauss

How Joomla! (or the Joola Extensions Directory) is Seen

How Joomla is seen vs. how it's used. 

Sometimes this is more like abuse.

And who gets blamed when a "Joomla" site is hacked?

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