We really appreciate the fact we have done something great here. We created a market segment where none existed before. That being managed WordPress specific hosting. Where we launched into an empty space, others have come behind us to stake their … Continue reading
Category Archives: News
For Love Or Money?
Career minor leaguer Dirk Hayhurst plays baseball, formerly for the Tampa Bay Rays. He’s also an author, speaker and currently a full-time video game player.
It’s our 2nd birthday. Specials and promotions all month to celebrate.
Hey what do you know? Our little experiment here has worked like magic and we are excited to celebrate our 2nd birthday. Managed WordPress hosting was a novelty back in 2009 when we started, now it seems everyone is catching … Continue reading
Science Of Getting Noticed
Dan Zarrella will tell you that successful use cases of social media don’t involve rainbows. Nor do they involve unicorns, the ROI of putting pants on or even routinely good ideas. Successful companies and people know that good ideas don’t … Continue reading
Don’t Fear the Internet
Found this and thought it would be useful to some of our clients.
Writing never gets easier
Writing for a living seems like a dream job to anyone who isn’t one. No clock to punch, pants are seldom required and no boss asking about TPS reports. Professional writers scoff at this. Sure, their “office” may not be … Continue reading
At scale, everything breaks.
I don’t fancy myself a developer or a sysadmin. I pay people far more talented than me to wear those titles. However I do consider myself a steadfast hacker, CEO, customer support agent, biz dev, janitor, bookeeper….etc… Entrepreneur. Our managed WordPress … Continue reading
Write Like An Expert In Three Easy Steps
There is no more ubiquitous display of contempt AND admiration than labeling someone an expert. If you are someone who’s been promoted as an expert in a certain field, my condolences. The admiration from those who need your services and … Continue reading
Scheduled Maintenance tonight for OS kernel patches
Firehost has informed us that all nodes will need to be restarted this evening to apply a kernel security patch. 8/19/2011 between 12:30AM – 2:30AM CDT Each node will be restarted resulting in 3-5 minutes of downtime for the system. … Continue reading
Why aren’t more people reading your blog?
Not every blogger is good enough to write for a living. Hell, blogging doesn’t require a ton of writing skill, as it’s often used as a platform for promotion, education and connecting, rather than as an writing outlet. To those … Continue reading
The Page.ly Managed Hosting Panel
Cpanel, Plesk, WHM.. they all suck. Period. Way too much ‘stuff’ that you dont need. New customers ask us about a ‘panel’ and we tell them it is built in, and today someone asked if they could see it. I … Continue reading
Update on Page.ly3.0 Progress
It’s been a interesting couple of days. We have been working closely with Firehost to bring the new Database cluster online. If you have ever worked with #bigdata you know it can be tricky getting the replication setup across many … Continue reading
Read This Before Our Next Meeting – Al Pittampalli
Corporate types will tell you meetings are a necessary evil. Solo freelancers will tell you meetings are cancerous. Al Pittampalli will tell you that we have too many meetings and far too many bad meetings. While technology has certainly helped … Continue reading
Security Notice: Timthumb
We were notified of this security issue (http://blog.vaultpress.com/2011/08/02/vulnerability-found-in-timthumb/) last night and have been working with Firehost then and today on patching all timthumb.php files with the fix. Page.ly customers do not need to do anything further, except keep being awesome. … Continue reading
Page.ly 3.0 Phase 1 complete
Thank you for your patience this weekend while we made some needed changes to the system. We had originally scheduled this process for Friday night but had to postpone to Sunday night. However the maintenance went off without a hitch and only about 27 … Continue reading