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5 Ways to Protect Your Web Applications
Friday, April 20th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
NEWS A web application is a script that executes when a website is accessed and is used to display information in a unique way or retrieve specific data from a database. These applications can rely on server-side scripts, client-side scripts, or...

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Fighting the Silent Killer: Spam
Friday, March 23rd, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Spam is ugly. In some ways, it may even be uglier than viruses or security holes. Spam is deliberate and calculated. The spammer wants your business but does not have the dignity to approach you through conventional means. Moreover, as...

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Does Web Design Affect Site Performance?
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE When evaluating website performance, users commonly look at traffic, server processing power, available RAM, caching techniques, PHP memory usage, database optimization, and many other aspects of web hosting. But web design is often overlooked when it comes to performance. Does...

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Five Things to Look for in Good E-Commerce Hosting
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Pretty much every web hosting company on the planet offers some type of e-commerce hosting package. After all, e-commerce customers tend to make money from their websites, and that means they are willing to spend and keep spending to keep...

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How to Setup Hotlink Protection in cPanel
Thursday, January 26th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Hotlink protection gives you the ability to protect certain files on your server from being directly linked by another site. For example, if you have images that are published on your site and are very popular, you can prevent other...

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3 Ways To Redirect Blog or Website Visitors
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Just like when you change your home address after a move, it is common for websites to change URLs. It may be because you have implemented some new SEO technology, switched to a different content management system, or simply changed...

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4 Web Application Security Tips
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Today’s websites almost always use web applications of some form. The days of static HTML pages are long gone. We depend on scripting languages, databases, and other tools to dynamically generate our websites as they are requested. As a result,...

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How to Fix WordPress Theme Errors
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE It is a frightening scenario. Your WordPress blog has been running just fine for years, but you finally decided to try out some new themes. One of the themes you try goes crazy and completely brings down your WordPress site....

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Do You Need Whole Website or Just a Blog?
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Before answering the question in the title, we should clarify what the difference actually is. A blog, after all, is a website, and some websites that are exclusively blogs are quite successful. When it comes to launching an online presence...

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Using a Content Delivery Network for Your Blog
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Content Delivery Networks (CDN) offer a way to reduce network congestion and load on a server by distributing a website’s most frequently used content.  Many large and popular websites use content delivery networks from companies like Amazon, Level 3, and...

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