Update 1/4/2011: The problems described in this article regarding WordPress functionality breaking due to permalink structures have been fixed in version 3.0 and higher. Now the permalink structure suggested by the people mentioned in this article is the best solution for SEO optimized URL’s. However the WordPress Codex, the official WordPress documentation, still suggests that you should start your permalink structure with a number for performance reasons. In most WordPress sites, the performance hit caused using the permalink structure suggested by the SEO experts below would not be large enough to out-weigh the SEO benefits.
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Every now and then I get asked “What do you do for a living?” and after I answer the follow up questions always come without fail. What is web hosting? Why does someone need website hosting? Of course there is always the other related questions such as “Why can’t I host my own website?” and “Why should I pay for web hosting?”. These are all excellent questions and they deserve just as good of answers. Lets take a look at exactly what “web hosting” is and why someone would need it.…
About six to eight months ago I found myself having problems getting enough time out of the day to manage a custom website for Weberz on top of fixing servers, answering support tickets, and generally trying to conduct business on a day to day basis. So I decided to look into making at least one of those jobs easier by converting our website to be managed by a WordPress installation. The general idea was to use WordPress as a CMS system and a blog platform in a single installation of the software. …
On October 10th of last year we sent out a service announcement where we had mentioned a possible new data center for Weberz. Today I am pleased to announce that this is in progress. The final contracts for the data center were signed earlier this afternoon that wrapped up the final details of the new facility.…
Out on the interwebs there are thousands of tools focused on helping webmasters, site owners and business owners to get more out of their websites. These tools can range from statistical analysis to link building and traffic generation. With all of these available it can easily become overwhelming for a individual who doesn’t deal with it daily to get confused and easily fall into a scam or end up with sub par tools. After all the last thing we want is to do something that’s going to get you site banned in the search engines because the tool you used …
Here’s a little nuance from H-Sphere that we just found out about, domain aliases now use one of the “included” domains in the users plan. We had trouble tickets come over from some new customers over the last few days who were having a problem getting all of their domain aliases assigned to a domain. Mainly due to the fact that the system wanted to charge them for these domain aliases.…
Yes it’s true, even webmasters have spring cleaning to do. In the northern half of the world the seasons are starting to change and it’s starting to get nice outside once again. Yes, spring time is back. While every one typically loves this time of year where the sun starts to come out and the bird are chirping.. we also hate this time of year because there’s no doubt that someone is going to come by and remind us to clean out the garage, closet, or any other space that we have been ignoring for the last year.
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Many of our resellers are web designers who host their design clients under their reseller account. This tends to work great for both the client and the designer. The client doesn’t need to spend time finding a reliable hosting company to use and the designer gets to access all of the clients files to be able to better serve the client. While this works out well for both parties, is the reseller getting the most out of those design clients? I know that many of our resellers do not.…
Over the past few months we have been doing large amounts of research on Virtualization and different software packages used to virtualize servers. For those of you that don’t know, Virtualization is a method of taking multiple computer instances and running them on one physical machine. The idea is ideal for helping to consume less energy, take advantage of unused hardware and save space used by computers.…
Welcome to 2009! All of us here at Weberz hope that your holiday season went well. We are all looking forward to the new year and all the good things its certain to bring.
As for 2008, well.. it’s over. It was a good but flat year for Weberz. It was good because everything we did was positive for the company and user base. We replaced part of our technical support team with new individuals and we merged our two brands Relio and Weberz into a single entity. We also worked to move more of our support documents and tools …
