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WooCommerce Geolocation and WP Engine

WooCommerce

If you’re running an international WooCommerce store and you need to charge different tax or shipping rates to your customers depending on their location, WooCommerce’s geolocation feature is great. The correct product/shipping pricing can be displayed automatically because WooCommerce knows which state/country the customer is visiting from. Turning on Geolocation in WooCommerce is (ideally) as […]

WordPress 3.1.4 Security Release

Over night WordPress 3.1.4 was released. WordPress 3.1.4 is a maintenance and security update, which fixes an issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user to gain further access to the website. It also incorporates several other security fixes and hardening measures. OM4 clients will be happy to know that as part of their hosting, […]

Amazon AWS and the Servers for Nothing announcement

This is a quick post for those interested in hosting WordPress websites. For some time we’ve been using Amazon S3 for storage and Cloudfront as a content distribution network. This lets us use bulk storage and only pay for what we use.

Rimuhosting servers

Periodically I talk to clients about using an OM4 site, and if we can’t do what they need I’ll often recommend they get their own server. The hosting provider that I recommend is usually Rimuhosting. When I launched OM4, the first server I used was a virtual private server (VPS) from rimuhosting and they have […]

Using Amazon CloudFront with WordPress and WordPress MU

Amazon has recently set up a new service called CloudFront, and this week James enabled it for OM4 websites. Everyone likes web pages that load fast, and one of the factors that determines how fast pages load is the ‘hops’ that are involved in getting all the parts of the web page from the server […]

Running a Website Speed Test

We’ve all had the experience of a web page seeming to take too long to respond.  Sometimes the website is slow, sometimes your internet connection is slow … But if the website is your own, it is easy to worry that there is A PROBLEM and that perhaps visitors to your website are also finding […]

4 Options for Linux Website Hosting

We host all our OM4 websites on Linux and take care of all the technical details (so our clients don’t have to). Small business owners really should not try and do hosting themselves, in my view. There are too many variables. That said, if you are interested in hosting your own website on Linux, before […]

If You Can't Host It Don't Post It

Digg’s flurry over Jane’s map has died away – mostly. If you make hosting decisions for your business, then you may be interested in the traffic that hit. Digg reports the story went ‘popular’ 4 days ago now. But checks revealed that for a bit over 2 days of Digg frenzy, Jane’s Global Warming Mindmap […]