What does your site going down cost you? If your business depends upon your site loading quickly and staying online, having a single server isn't enough. Between DDos attacks, hackers, SQL injections, scrapers, comment bots and fake Google crawlers, even smaller blogs and sites really need protection. How much depends on your tolerance for outages and budget. Keeping the bad actors out has the side benefit of speeding up your page load times, improving your search engine rankings, and making … [Read more...]
Do Bloggers Need A Content Delivery Network (CDN)?
I asked Vernessa Taylor to share with us how a CDN (content delivery network) would benefit bloggers. I suspect some of us really need one, but am unclear on what is involved or when we should start using one. Here is what Vernessa has discovered so far: Content Delivery Network: Faster Than A Speeding Plane . . . If you're like me you may have heard the phrase content delivery network (CDN) bandied about more and more over the last couple of years. The first 50 times I came across it, … [Read more...]
