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What is Larry Thinking? #45 => Olio

September 18, 2011

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How Web Hosts Prey on Beginners

August 28, 2011

I was recently reading Popular Science (which I get a lot out of) when I ran across an ad for a major, well-known Web hosting company. Obviously the company focuses on cheap hosting—the company’s plans start at $5 (US) per month, but a few things in the ad caught my eye. In particular, the ad reminded me of how many Web hosting companies, particularly those that provide cheap hosting, prey on the ignorance of beginning Web developers. Let’s look at some particulars… Continue Reading…

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How I Cut My Bandwidth In Half

May 16, 2011

In January of 2011, the third full month after putting this site online, there were roughly 450,000 page views requiring 27GB of bandwidth (i.e., mostly data provided by the server to users). In April of 2011, there were also 450,000 page views, but only 14GB of bandwidth. That’s a dramatic difference: half the bandwidth for virtually the same amount of traffic! This wasn’t a goal of mine (my hosting plan allows for up to 1TB of bandwidth per month), but happens to be a great side benefit of three steps I took, primarily with the aim of improving the site’s performance (i.e., how quickly pages load for visitors). Here’s the full scoop… Continue Reading…

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Five Critical E-Commerce Security Tips in Five Days

February 26, 2011

Peachpit Press has published on their Web site my “Five Critical E-Commerce Security Tips in Five Days” series of blog postings. The specific postings are:

The postings are in concert with my “Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL” book, although the information provided, from theory to actual code, should be useful whether you’ve read that book or not.

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