Tips & Tricks

Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to connect with your customers. Whether you’re a small business trying to grow or an established brand, the right email marketing software can help you build relationships with your audience and increase revenue. But not all email marketing plugins are created equal, so we’ve put together …

If you’re running a WordPress website, these statistics make startling reading and underline just how critical it is to not only take WordPress security seriously but to keep bang up to date with the latest advice. Fortunately, that’s what we’re going to do right now. Ensuring your WP site is fully secure is a given …

Trying to figure out what managed WordPress hosting is and whether you need it? WordPress currently powers over 455 million websites, with 500 new WordPress websites every day. Well over a third of the top 1 million websites is WordPress based, so no one is ever going to deny its popularity or success, but that …

Linux logs offer developers and system administrators a detailed account of all events, requests, and activity on the server. Log files can be used to monitor critical events in the kernel, the server, and for any services or applications actively running.  Server administrators can review comprehensive diagnostic information about performance, ranging from kernel events to …

If you work in DevOps, you may have heard, or be familiar with, continuous integration and continuous deployment. Often, people use these terms interchangeably, but this is incorrect.  Consider that you wish to implement a change to your web application – for simple changes, these are often made directly. But when you’re considering improving your …

With over a million websites powered by Laravel, Google pushing the importance of website speed, and users less & less accepting of anything other than an incredibly smooth user experience – some are giving PHP & frameworks like Laravel the reputation of being less performant than other frameworks. While there very well may be truth to …

Joining some of the best Facebook groups for SysAdmins and developers is a great way to learn, improve, and stay up-to-date with the industry.  Any developer with more than a year of experience will know for a fact that tech is always evolving. With so many popular tools, languages, libraries, and other technologies out there …

Are you looking for extensions to enhance your security and privacy? Although Incognito Mode aims at making your browsing experience secure, sometimes it just isn’t enough. Chrome may be the world’s most popular web browser, but it isn’t the most private one. It does, however, provide a number of Chrome extensions that you can freely …

In May of 2021, Google made Core Web Vitals a direct ranking factor which means website performance and user experience has never been more important. In order to figure out how the website performs, there are numerous performance testing tools that you can use and get all kinds of data. Also, it’s important to know …