Category: Liquid Web

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Melanie Purkis; Is your website or application growing exponentially, or are you experiencing downtime? Whether your company’s success is leading to website or application slowdowns, downtime, or availability issues, or you are expanding into a new business area that has different business requirements, there are many reasons why companies evolve into high performance hosting environments. But what is high performance hosting? What does it help with? Is it cost effective? A multi-server environment governed by a load balancer provides advantages that are not cost-effective for many startups or small businesses, but are important or indispensable for ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Mayra Pena; A Liquid Web Linux Support Technician on the power of family, loving the people you work with, and being unafraid to go after the life and career you want. “I love to see a project at its small beginnings, to nurture its progress, and to be able to take part in that kind of growth,” says Ramos. “I try to apply this not only to my career in tech, but also to people. It’s a good way to build relationships.”In a high school photoshop class, Annacani Ramos’ love of technology was born when she ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrew Hartnett; Thinking about adopting DevOps but not sure where to start? As organizations are ever more eager to digitize and automate processes, the number looking into adopting DevOps models has increased greatly. Because the approach typically depends on each company’s objectives and teams, there is no universal secret to adopting it. This can make the leap into DevOps daunting. Most organizations want to get on board with the DevOps approach to make their teams more agile and competitive, while cutting down costs and building revenue. In order to do this, they need to get into ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Donata Kalnenaite; Are you struggling to understand the new data regulations, or do you eyes cloud over when you hear about data privacy? You may have heard of GDPR, CCPA, the Nevada privacy law, and cookie notifications. It’s easy to get lost and confused with all of these rules and regulations. If you are not sure if your website needs a Privacy Policy, or even what one is, this blog post is for you. We will help clear up what a Privacy Policy is, whether your website needs one, and why. In truth, there are simple ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Ronald Caldwell; What if I told you that backing up your VPS does not have to be a daunting task? For many small business owners, one of the most crucial time and resource savers are adequate backups. When your site is working as it should, things are great. You can conduct business, and people get the information about your business that they need. But what happens when your site is not correctly working, and the need arises to restore it to a previous point in time when it was working?” Think through these questions: Is your ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Mike Sherman; There are few things more terrifying than losing your identity or finding out that all of your critical data is gone or compromised. Hackers may attack anyone at any time; it is up to you and your security practices to prevent loss of data and secure your systems.” This is one of the many reasons that there’s an entire month dedicated to celebrating and enforcing online security. October was National Cyber Security Awareness Month – an event hosted by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance encouraging everyone to do ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Wade Wachs; InterWorx is a control panel for your server and sites. InterWorx provides tools to configure your web server, email, domains, and web sites. You can use it to install WordPress, manage your files, and improve your security. InterWorx gives you everything you need to launch and manage your website.” A lot goes into getting your website and server up and running. While it is possible to configure all of the relevant pieces directly from the command line, using a control panel like InterWorx makes the job much easier. InterWorx is broken into two main ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Sam Mcwright; Its 3 am on Sunday morning and your cell phone is ringing. It’s the CEO of your company. Quickly, you pinch yourself to see if you are dreaming. Nope, not a dream. You wipe the cold out of your eyes, clear your throat and reluctantly answer the call. The CEO is obviously shaken and by the sound of his tone, it appears something detrimental has occurred. He anxiously exclaims the business is losing money by the second. As your CEO continues speaking, you being the IT Manager, vaguely remember a meeting you had a ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Todd Terwillegar; We’re the employees you would hire if you could. Responsive, helpful, and dedicated in ways automation simply can’t be. We’re your team. Each month we recognize one of our Most Helpful Humans in Hosting. Meet Wes Wes Mills is our amazing “mad” data scientist at Liquid Web in charge making the magic happen by curating and organizing the large amounts of data that comes into Liquid Web. In other words, he makes our customer experience better through data analysis and objective process changes. Wes is obsessed with the behaviors of people and how they ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Mayra Pena; Deciding whether to publish your agency or freelancer rates? When creating a website for your agency or freelance business, you’re going to create your home page, about page, services page, contact page, and even your portfolio. You’ll even decide between unmanaged or managed hosting. However, there is one thing that you still need to figure out: Will you publish your pricing or make your rate card public on your site? When deciding whether or not to display your rate card on your website and be completely transparent about all of your pricing, you need ... Read More