The Golden Rule in any website management is keeping content and data secure. No blogger can afford to lose data as it spells the sure doom of your website. How do we deal with this? Simple answer – back up your website. Keeping website backups is essential for website security as it is a way […]
5 Nightmare Scenarios for Your Blog
It’s Halloween in the United States (and much of the rest of the world). As such, people are gathering together for parties, going trick or treating and telling scary stories. In that spirit, last week on Performancing I discussed legal nightmares that can happen to you and your blog. Specifically, there were three scenarios that, […]
Blogging Pitfalls: Going Down With Your (Hosting) Ship
If there is one thing that the recent outages at Amazon Cloud and even the PlayStation Network can show us, it’s that even the best, most reliable companies can have serious problems with their hosting infrstructure and can go down. Unfortunately, as a blogger, you’re just a passenger on someone else’s ship on the Web. […]
Blogging Pitfalls: We’ll Do It Live
If you blog long enough, at some point you’re going to be faced with a sticky problem. You need to make a major change to your site, such as switch to a new CMS, upgrade a critical component or set up a new theme. However, your live site already has a pretty lengthy history behind […]
3 Things I Learned About WordPress In 2010
With 2010 coming to a close and many bloggers reflecting on their top 10 lists, I thought it would be nice to share 4 things I learned about WordPress this year that I wish I knew in 2009. Granted some of these services didn’t exist in 2009 (as you’ll see below), however many of their […]
