Monthly Archives: July 2012

Simple Page Redirects – 301 Moved Permanently




If you have ever built or managed a website, you know that site file names don’t always stay the same for whatever reason. This is when you need to add “301 Moved Permanently” rules to your .htaccess file. This does … Continue reading

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Nexcess Quadruples Storage to 600 GB on Dedicated Magento Hosting




Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 23,  2012 – Nexcess, a leading provider of premium Magento hosting services, has announced that it will be quadrupling the storage space on its SIP 400 and SIP 500 dedicated Magento servers and Magento cluster offerings … Continue reading

Posted in Hardware, Magento, News Releases, Nexcess | 2 Comments

64 Bit CentOS Installing 32 Bit Packages




When you do a fresh install of x86_64 CentOS 5, you might be surprised and annoyed to find yum trying to install 32 bit packages on your 64 bit server. You’ve got a 64 bit processor and operating system so … Continue reading

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Important Magento Security Update




Magento recently posted an important security update that affects all versions prior to CE 1.7.0.2 and EE 1.12.0.2. The vulnerability is specifically in the Zend Framework’s Zend_XmlRpc module, which means that any application built on the Zend Framework is potentially … Continue reading

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New Facebook Extension Offers Closer WordPress Integration




Until recently, integrating a WordPress site with Facebook has been a rather hit-and-miss affair, with functionality spread across third-party extensions that were often less than reliable. The release of a Facebook for WordPress extension, developed in partnership with WordPress, has … Continue reading

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Alternatives to Banner Ads for WordPress




The evidence has been in for quite some time now: banner ads are not an effective use of the webspace on your page. The expected CTR (Click-Through Rate) for banner ads is below 0.2 percent. That means for every 1000 … Continue reading

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