Tag: WordPress

Selecting Components for WordPress

Published March 4, 2019 by Carlos Veira

I have been dealing with WordPress for years now. I have developed and maintained my own site; built a number of experiments and Proofs-of-Concept and managed blogging platforms for others. Each context has taught me something new, but one of the aspects that keeps me hooked into this environment is the vibrant community that WordPress has.

The amount of plugins, themes, and solutions that get built on top of it is astonishing. WordPress is estimated to run to 33% of all websites and 60% of the ones with a known CMS.…

The Limits of Shared Hosting

Published July 27, 2012 by Carlos Veira

Have you ever wondered which is the real difference among different offerings besides the fact that your applications run on a shared server? In fact, most of the times, this seems to be a tricky question because most service providers describe the boundaries and limits of their services based on the following common parameters:

The resource type and quota: storage, bandwidth, mail boxes, mail lists, FTP accounts, database instances, etc.
The underlying platform: Windows (IIS/Apache) or Linux (Apache) under whichever version.

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