2019’s Most Surprising WordPress Statistics https://www.whoishostingthis.com/compare/wordpress/stats/ WordPress Took Over 112 Years to Build (programming-years) WordPress is the Top Content Management System 34% of the Internet is Powered by WordPress WordPress Sites Make Up 14.7% of the Top 100 Websites in the World WordPress 4.7 Has Been Downloaded Over 19,700,000 Times WordPress is *Still* Growing WordPress…
Microsoft Warns of Windows Slow Startup Due to Persistent Memory “Microsoft acknowledged a new known issue impacting several Windows versions and leading to unexpectedly slow startups on computers configured to use persistent memory. “After you configure a Windows-based computer to use large amounts of memory, including persistent memory, the computer takes longer than expected to…
Here’s an important thing to remember when working with any IT professional who installs any type of software onto your systems: Almost all “paid for” software requires an activation code, whether it’s the OS, Office, or any other application. If your previous IT consultant didn’t provide you with an email or document that contains the…
It’s just come to the point where I have to warn clients against using GoDaddy for their websites. It’s expensive and difficult to use. Despite GoDaddy’s enormous marketing effort to make it seem like they have a corner on the website hosting market, they do a really expensive and terrible job at what they do.…
Backups Backups Backups & Restores – the ransomware antidote Ransomware hits hundreds of dentist offices in the US Ransomware group gains access to dental software backend, deploys ransomware on customers’ systems. By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | August 29, 2019 — 16:20 GMT (09:20 PDT) | Topic: Security https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-hits-hundreds-of-dentist-offices-in-the-us/ Recently, dental professionals were targeted by hackers who attempted to extort ransoms…
In small businesses, I see reoccurring issues: The file server is out of space. We don’t have a file server, so we email documents to each other. We have a file server, but our remote workers can’t access the files. The one hard drive that contains all of our data went caput for no apparent…
Decisions – What type of website to build: When planning out a project or new business process, the complexity (details) can overwhelm it, especially if not accounted for at the onset. The trade-off of any new endeavor is balancing the cost of purchasing a solution, though imperfect, from an existing provider or creating your own…
Archive.org sends out what are called spiders that follow from link to link to link and save the web pages to a database. The database is searchable by the domain of the site. Sites behind paywalls and passwords are not stored. However, much of the internet is reviewable using this service. It’s interesting, you can…
No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization? https://doist.com/blog/decision-making-flat-organization/ “If there is a good enough solution X, don’t ask people what they think about it. Instead, ask everyone if they can live with it and if not, why” RFC 7282. On Consensus and Humming in the IETF If you’re the…
