As WordPress is the most widely used content management system, almost any error you will run to has most likely happened on multiple occasions and already has a solution. Especially due to WordPress’s open source nature, bugs and errors are constantly being worked on by the community with helpful articles and discussion boards popping up … Continue reading “Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Them”
When starting a new website, you’ll likely spend an ample amount of time trying to decide which is the best content management system, also referred to as a CMS. With a plethora of available platforms, it may be a bit overwhelming at first. What you’ll find immediately is that the majority of the CMS market, … Continue reading “Which One is Better? A Review of WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal”
What is Amazon CloudFront CDN? Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. CloudFront is integrated with AWS – both physical locations that are directly connected to the AWS global infrastructure, … Continue reading “How to setup WordPress with AWS CloudFront CDN origin push”
We are pleased to announce the launch of our brand new website! After six months of hard work and dedication, we are delighted to officially announce the launch of our new website. The updated site has a new modern look and feel, new logo, brighter colors, better browser compatibility and is mobile friendly. It … Continue reading “New Website Launched”
This is a guest post written and contributed by CloudFlare. CloudFlare makes it easy for any site to be as fast and secure as the Internet giants. What is CloudFlare? CloudFlare, a web performance and security company, is excited to announce our partnership with BUYHTTP! If you haven’t heard about CloudFlare before, our value proposition … Continue reading “How CloudFlare increases speed and security of your site”
Are you taking advantage of the super fast caching capability of memcache? now available on all BUYHTTP shared, VPS and dedicated servers. Dynamic websites like Joomla and WordPress sometimes feels sluggish after installing a number of plugins or modules due to the number of database SQL queries generated by these plugins, so how do we fix … Continue reading “Memcache Installation for CentOS and cPanel”
Apr 10 2014
There has been a major security flaw found in OpenSSL, which is installed on every server we run, and around 2/3rds of all servers in the world. This vulnerability is known as the Heartbleed bug. The vulnerability was found and released on Tuesday, and we immediately went looking for the fix. The bug only affected … Continue reading “Heartbleed Bug Update”
Oct 9 2013
Today we had an outage that affected all buyhttp.com sites including our main site, account manager, and support system. They were down for approximately two hours. We use a different datacenter to host our sites than we use for customer sites, and it is for problems just like this. When the server went down, we … Continue reading “Today’s Service Interruption”
Sep 18 2013
A major security hole has been found in versions of PHP before 5.4.18 that allow man in the middle attacks and we need to upgrade to prevent those issues. Going from PHP 5.3 to 5.4 is a big upgrade and will break some older scripts. Unfortunately because of the severity of the issue we don’t … Continue reading “All Shared Servers Being Upgraded to PHP 5.4”
Sep 12 2013
For a while now, we’ve been encouraging users to use .htaccess to protect their Joomla administrator folder to help protect a number of attacks. This only takes a few minutes to setup an can save you hours of hassles down the road. In order to protect the server and other customers sites if we notice … Continue reading “Protect Your Joomla Administrator Folder”