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Do you have a WordPress blog? If so, you’re probably concerned that hackers could break into it and either deface it or hi-jack it for their own illicit purposes.
Well, I’m here to tell you that your concern is well-founded.
Hackers are always looking for vulnerable blogs to attack, and with WordPress being the most popular blogging platform on the Internet, the blogs powered by it are bombarded daily with hacking attempts. [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger you probably depend on email to communicate with your readers, your advertisers and any other folks that you talk to in the course of writing and managing your blog.
And chances are you even use email to deliver an informational newsletter to your subscribers.
If you’ve noticed that many (or even most) of your emails are being ignored, there’s a good chance that your email server has somehow landed in an email blacklist database. [Read more…]
Do you run a WordPress blog?
If so, you’ve probably spent a lot of time thinking about what would happen if your blog got hacked or your server’s hard drive crashed?
I know I have, and it isn’t a very pleasant thing to think about.
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If you’ve been blogging for a while, you might have noticed that your blog’s page load times have increased over time as you added posts and started receiving ever more traffic to them.
Every active blog slows down over time as ever-increasing numbers of visitors put an ever-increasing load on your web server’s resources.
As more pages are loaded from your server its CPU must work harder and the RAM and disk I/O eventually get maxed out. This results in sluggish page loads, and during peak times your blog can even grind to a halt.
There are several things you can do to mitigate the problems you’ll almost certainly encounter as your blog grows in size and popularity. [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger you probably know that Google and the other major search engines now take page load times into consideration when ranking web pages in their search results.
In a nutshell, that means all other things being equal, your blog’s pages will rank lower in the search results for a given search query than other similar pages that load faster than yours.
And as you know, that can be a huge problem. [Read more…]