Archive for March, 2010
Backup Your WordPress Installation Easily
Yesterday, Automattic, the company that brought you WordPress and hosts 10+ million blogs at WordPress.com, announced a new product called VaultPress, that will backup your WP install to the cloud. On their blog, they described VaultPress this way: The vision of VaultPress is to ensure that blogs and sites under its care are always completely [...]
Should We Assume Everything is Going to End Up on YouTube Eventually?
We as web people at colleges are spending a ton of time lately thinking about creating web content specifically for YouTube. Whether it be class lectures, interviews with students or your President having some fun on campus, YouTube is compelling because it allows us to reach a ton of people worldwide, for free. But, there’s [...]
If You Like It Then You Should Have Put a Ping On It
All the web servers, all the web servers… Web servers are fickle things. You never know what’s going to set them off into a fit of high loads, disk swaps and general sluggishness – it could be bad code, hack attempts, denial of service, old hardware, who knows. The problem is you never know when [...]
