This is the first of a mulitpart part series where we aim to share with you some of the technical aspects of what powers the Managed WordPress Hosting system we developed here at page.ly, how we started, the recent server improvements and … Continue reading
Team Page.ly expands and preps new product.
We are very happy to welcome 2 new members to our team this week, as we are say goodbye to one. Please welcome Bernardo el Panadero who is a straight up systems administrator and has already been making changes to our server stack to … Continue reading
Credit card fraud costs everyone.
So here’s the scenario. Customer attempts to signup for our service. The CC transaction triggers a fraud warning, and transaction is denied. Customer contacts us, states the legitimate nature of their ‘self’. We respond that we follow the fraud warning and their … Continue reading
Billing Error 1/9/2012
There was an error today (Jan 9th, 2012) with our daily billing system. A small handful of clients were charged multiple times for the same invoice. We are cataloging all charges posting today and will be voiding the extra payments … Continue reading
Making the switch to managed WordPress hosting
Upgrading is hard. It’s especially difficult for non-geek computer users who want every new-fangled feature without any learning curve or additional cost. ‘I want the best, the most modern and the highest-quality,’ they exclaim, but ‘I want it to work … Continue reading
WordPress 3.3.1 released, all customer sites already updated.
WP 3.3.1 has been released as a maintenance and security update. One of the benefits of our new page.ly3 system is that we are able to make changes quicker across all sites. So what used to take 4-6 hours to run through our thousands of customers, … Continue reading
Top Posts Of 2011
Copyblogger does it. Duct Tape Marketing does it. Even the smaller, one-person blogs are in on it. Now it’s time for our own year in review. Pagely has grown and what better way to commemorate that than a look back … Continue reading
SFTP changeover and systems update.
Just a quick note to all customers. If you have purchased FTP access in the past, some details (in bold below) have changed. Host: sftp.pagely.com User: <your existing user> Pass: <your existing pass> Port: 22 Purchase receipts for sftp details … Continue reading
WordPress 3.3 is here. You better believe it Sonny.
WordPress 3.3 has arrived in style. [read about it] After significant testing of 3.3 beta and release candidates on our system we have updated all pagely3 sites to 3.3 and will be updating the legacy page.ly sites as soon as they have … Continue reading
Begin Just Before The End
Start as close to the end as possible. -Kurt Vonnegut Too many storytellers are in love with their backstory. They’ll spend precious minutes, even hours, explaining their rationale behind their love of purple, describe their childhood obsession with Transformers and … Continue reading
Is Everything A Remix?
There is a desperate desire in all of us to be original. We want to be unique, write in our own voice and pass on ideas that we came up with, all on our own. That’s not going to happen. … Continue reading
Writer’s Block And Other Tall Tales
There are are few myths that far too many writers believe. They are, in no particular order: Writer’s block exists and it will derail your ability to tell a story. It’s possible to be wholly original and we should all … Continue reading
Page.ly donating 1% of profits to charity.
On a personal level we have consistently supported charitable efforts in our own community and globally. Doing a little bit here or there as we were able. We want to do more, and make a larger impact. After careful consideration, … Continue reading
Service outage 11/10 2:30pm CST
Around 2:30 CST today a Firehost engineer was performing routine maintenance on one of our new management nodes. The node failed, and was unable to restart or recover. As of 3:00pm CST they are still working with VMWare (the software … Continue reading
Page.ly3 Update
We have successfully migrated about 1/3 of all sites over to the new system. The remaining sites are scheduled for move later this month. Sites that have moved are benefiting from: Our new Varnish caching layer. Cached pages for NON-logged … Continue reading