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Starting immediately, LittleBizzy is suspending MaxCDN implementations for all of our managed hosting clients. This is not a decision that we made lightly, nor does it reflect any ill-will between us and the wonderful folks at MaxCDN. In short, there are three main reasons for us having reached this decision, mentioned below in more detail. […]

If you have never heard of Opcache before, you may be more familiar with its former name: Zend Optimizer. In the old days, PHP “bytecode caching” did exist but it was always a 3rd party service that had to be re-compiled as part of your PHP install (or entire Apache install, as it were). With […]

It was only a few days ago that LittleBizzy announced WP StageCoach, and we are already back announcing another new service! We are proud to introduce CloudFlare Pro, another new partnership service that we are now offering, beginning immediately. CloudFlare Pro is now included in every single one of our Enterprise hosting plans free of […]

LittleBizzy is proud to announce a new partnership with WP StageCoach in order to offer a proper “staging” environment to all of our hosting clients. For those not familiar with the increasingly popular concept of staging sites, it is a public website used to “test” design changes or new features without having to implement them […]

Throughout my ‘consulting’ career in SEO and online marketing, I’ve always had two general types of clients: those that tried to boss me around and/or make excuses for their poor choices, and those that — despite my young(er) age — listened with keen interest to my suggestions, and tried to implement them (if only in […]

Although the robots.txt file can be used for any website, it is especially important for dynamically generated websites such as those based on the WordPress platform. Why? Because dynamic CMS systems like WordPress tend to create (potentially) dozens or even thousands of pages (URLs) that don’t need to be public. Not only can this lead […]

Getting a fresh WordPress installation up and running is usually a bit of a hassle. Even with various “automagic” tools out there now like Fantastico or SimpleInstall that often come bundled with cPanel, there is still the issue of setting up a database, making sure all the install files exist (or deleting the junk left […]

Below is a complete list of default WordPress files and directories that should exist on your server after WordPress installation is complete. Understanding this list of default files is important so that in the case your site is hacked (or in case your files are extremely out of date) you can quickly determine which files […]

It’s been a while, perhaps, since a far-reaching development in the world of internet technology has caused so much, well… public-facing controversy — but, then again, it has also been over 15 years since the last version of the HTTP protocol was released, that being HTTP version 1.1 which went fully live way back in […]

Below is a free video recording of a rather insightful webcast that SendGrid put together several weeks back, which discussed some of the basic concepts involved when putting together a business marketing email. If you are not aware of SendGrid, it is an email ‘delivery’ service at its core, and something that we offer here […]