SoCal Websites

Spam can cause problems with exim when it is both incoming and outgoing. Recently, we started getting excessive resource usage notices for two different customers. At first, it looked like their mail accounts were being used to spam the server.

After further analysis, we realized it was actually that the domains were being bombarded with spam to their accounts. Exim was raising the server load dramatically, because neither account had the default address set to :fail: no such address here. Continue Reading »

Process Resource Monitor

When running a shared server environment, you must be extremely aware of activity which can take down your server. One rogue hosting account can ruin things for everyone. Continue Reading »

If you haven’t explored Google Apps for Your Domain or just plain old GMail, now is the time.

GMail and Google Apps for Your Domain capacity is now 6 GB. That’s per user. Continue Reading »

You Don’t Need Web Analytics: “

How many saw that headline and heaved a sigh of relief? ‘Oh good,’ you thought, ‘one less thing on my to do list.’

Web Analytics World has 21 reasons that you do not need web analytics. Any of these sound like you or your clients?

• You don’t want to know where your visitors are coming from.
• You don’t care how much time visitors spend on your website.
• Most popular products? Who cares, you already know what your customers want.
• Dead Content? There can’t be any dead content on your site.
• Site overlay is overrated because you can pretty much guess which links visitors find appealing.
• Bounce rate sounds like a make believe metric.

(Via Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim – Internet Marketing Blog & Consultant.)

With Google Analytics being such a great price… free, there’s little excuse for not having top-notch analytics available for your site. Whether someone actually analyzes the data or not, at least it will be there when someone realizes the need.

Of course, there’s arguments to be made for having your analytics from the server rather than a javascript in the code. If you have cPanel, like on our servers, you have analytics built into your administrator. We still often use Google Analytics for our clients, but the server-side stats also provide the 404 not found errors and occasionally checking Google Analytics against the server stats can show if the tracking code has been installed properly on all the pages it is supposed to be on.

If you haven’t upgraded to the new WordPress 2.2 yet, you can now do it through Fantastico. Login to your cpanel (yourdomain/cpanel) and you can upgrade in just a couple of quick clicks.

As always, be sure to backup your database prior to upgrading and thoroughly test your blog after the upgrade has been completed!

This is a safe and recommended upgrade for WordPress via Fantastico. This blog was upgraded without issue in a few seconds via Fantastico in cPanel.

Enjoy!