WordPress released a security and bug fix release earlier this month – version 3.3.1. This is a recommended update for your WordPress site. Details are at WordPress.org.
As always, we recommend backing up your site before installing updates. Please contact Main Street if you help with the backups or update.
WordPress 3.3 has been out for several weeks now and we have not heard of any issues or problems with it. This release mainly streamlines the backend and makes site administration even faster and easier than before.
We recommend making the update to 3.3 now. As usual, we recommend creating a backup of your site and your database, before the update. While we don’t expect any issues with the update, it’s always good to have a spare backup.
WordPress version 3.3 was released yesterday. There are the usual streamlining features and tweaks, but several new features that we are excited about:
These are some great new features that will make life easier for WordPress content editors. As usual, we don’t recommend immediately installing the new version, give it two or three weeks to prove out in the field before updating your site.
More details are available at WordPress.org.
We want to do our part to help stimulate the economy and help get jobs for the unemployed #occupy protestors and NBA players.
So for Black Friday we are offering 5 hour prepaid labor blocks for the 4 hour price – 5 hours for $400. We can’t guarantee your work will be done by a former protester or NBA player, (actually we can guarantee it won’t) but we can guarantee this is the best price we will offer for a long time.
This Black Friday special deal ends Wednesday, November 30th. You must use this link to get the Black Friday special.
Prepaid labor blocks are not refundable, all sales final. Please contact us prior to purchase if you have questions.
If you’ve done any research on hosting plans you’ve seen the deals: unlimited domains, unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, only $4.95 per month. And these are major firms, not fly-by-night unknown companies.
So how do they do it? Most of them are willing to give you unlimited everything as long as you don’t try to use it. We worked with a client last month who was moving three large business sites to a cheap hosting plan to save money. Before we got the second site moved over the host was already “throttling” her account due to load. Her $4/mo plan includes unlimited bandwidth, but when she exceeded their “standard bandwidth” they began “throttling” her sites. Throttling is where they temporarily make your site unavailable for a few seconds at a time to keep the load averages down.
If you are a casual blogger with a site about the health benefits of organic turnips, you probably never will experience throttling, and if you do, your readers will wait a few extra seconds when your site slows down. But if you are a business running ecommerce, having your site slowed down or taken off the air for a few seconds at a time is a much more serious issue.
Most firms who offer unlimited disk space still track the number of files or total disk space and will take your site off the air if you exceed their unwritten limited. We have worked with several clients who have paid us to remove extra files from their sites so their hosts would put them back on the air.
Most hosting firms don’t backup accounts that have exceeded their acceptable disk space limits.
Several cheap hosting firms run outdated versions of the operating system and database software making it impossible to run a current version of WordPress. This leaves you open to hacking.
What to do? First, realize you rarely can get unlimited everything for a cheap price. Quality hosting has limits and still costs more than $5/mo. Nobody really needs unlimited disk space, or bandwidth — at least for legal purposes. Be prepared to pay for better hosting and pay for what you need. You invest a lot of time and money in your website, don’t let it be ruined trying to save a few hundred dollars a year in hosting.
