January 12, 2010 – 10:38 am | No Comment

Well, yet another project makes the front page of local media!
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Aberdeen, South Dakota, is a great city to live in.  It is a great city to raise a family in.  Most of …

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Local Online Advertising Series
October 19, 2009 – 6:35 pm | No Comment

If you haven’t heard of Brandon Hoffman, aka the Ad Hustler, or read his NUMEROUS blog posts on everything from affiliate marketing to local search strategies, you need to. He’s created a GREAT series …

Case Study: Using Twitter to Profit from Breaking News
July 28, 2009 – 10:08 am | 5 Comments

On July 26th, 2009, Internet Service Provider AT&T ‘blackholed’ traffic to/from some of the popular boards at 4Chan.org.  This was a surprising move for 2 reasons.

AT&T decidedly censored it’s customer base
4Chan.org is made up of …

Migrating from one Godaddy VPS to another and getting Plesk to play nicely
July 10, 2009 – 9:46 am | 3 Comments

Here’s the situation: You have two godaddy Virtual Private Server (VPS) accounts (or any Plesk-based hosting VPS)  and you need to migrate client accounts and domains between them.  Only problem is Plesk is being a …

Managing Twitter: The After-Conference Follow-Blitz
April 14, 2009 – 11:31 am | One Comment

The old standard of organizing 200+ business cards after a conference or event is officially dead.  People these days have taken to adding you to social media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook in lieu …

WordPress Permalink Issues in IIS, Working Around Mod_ReWrite with an ISAPI Filter
October 6, 2008 – 9:23 pm | 3 Comments

UPDATE: 10-07-08 :: I just received a comment from Bill Staples, a Microsoft Employee, who informs me that IIS7 indeed does support a URL rewrite, especially for WordPress.  Please see comments section below for URL.  …

Server Virtualization for Web Hosts – The Basics
June 16, 2008 – 2:27 pm | No Comment

A few comments to start the post:

Virtualization is here to stay, end of discussion
Web server virtualization is just as efficient as physical hosting
Microsoft’s Virtual PC Virtualization is WORTHLESS. End of discussion (The Server 2008 edition …

Tools of the Web Hosting Trade
June 5, 2008 – 8:29 pm | 3 Comments

The following is a list of tools that most webmasters and web hosts alike utilize on a consistent basis to keep things flowing. When data flows, profits flow too.
Keep in mind that a …

Types of Web Servers
June 5, 2008 – 7:22 am | No Comment

There are typically 2 operating systems that web sites are hosted on: Windows or Linux.
Windows IIS (Internet Information Services) is the typical platform for Active Server Pages, or ASP pages. You’ll see a wide …

What is Web Hosting?
June 5, 2008 – 6:56 am | No Comment

What is Web Hosting? Web hosting: storing files on a webserver for the purpose of displaying those files to authorized users. Simply put, you rent space on someone’s server, copy your web pages …