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Shared hosting: Pay Peanuts, Get Monkeys

See the bottom of the post for updates on my adventures with shared hosting.. My experience in selfhosting my blogs with GoDaddy moved from a glowing enthusiasm via consternation and frustration into a deep distrust and disbelief. In this post, I want to take you through the past year, as I discovered some of the [...]

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Nonprofit blogs: the common problems

777,  Seven hundred seventy-seven. That is the amount of nonprofit blogs I have collected so far. They are all on my Delicious bookmarking list. Excerpts from their posts are republished on Humanitarian News and The NonProfit Blogs. 777, discarding blogs which have not been updated since six months.  777, including the Good, the Bad and [...]

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WordPress 3.0 is out. Should you upgrade?

If you don’t selfhost your blog, skip this post. It talks about a common problem all of us, selfhosters have. But if you don’t selfhost, you’re immune to this disease, which has as symptoms: anxiety attacks, dizzy spells, recurring nightmares, adversity to “check for upgrades” or even “admin menus” buttons, and above all: fierce regret [...]

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Blogging: The ultimate crowd sourced knowledge management?

In my tutorial series “Blogging 101 – Starting a blog from scratch” I have already covered the basic question many nonprofit organisations ask themselves: “Does my organisation need a blog?” There was one issue I did not highlight, though: Blogging is a kind of crowd sourced knowledge management. What do I mean by that? An [...]

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Blogger now features a true preview

For years, bloggers cursed the lack of a real preview function in Blogger, one of the most popular blog platforms. After you wrote a blogpost, the ‘old’ preview button used to bring up a pop-up screen which gave a ‘kinda’ preview of your post, which did not take into account most styling options you had [...]

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Basic SEO advice from the expert

For anyone taking blogging seriously, “SEO” or “Search Engine Optimization” is serious stuff. SEO is the craftmanship involved in improving the volume and quality of traffic search engines generate to your website or blog. As I described in my “Understanding the traffic on your blog” primer, a large part of your visitors stumble upon your [...]

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Securing your WordPress blog

Bloggers have rushed to secure their selfhosted WordPress blogs after the recent massive hacks on shared hosts. I was one of them, even though only one of my blogs was affected. I spent hours browsing, looking for good resources, common knowledge, and solid tips to form a list of quitessentials on WordPress security. I also [...]

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Automatically monitor malicious file changes on your WordPress blog

During the the latest spree of hacks in April and May, hackers dropped a malicious .PHP script on the root directory of selfhosted blogs. The script changed all .PHP files, adding one line of code which redirected visitors to a virus-infested site, and then deleted itself. There was anything between a day and an hour [...]

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How to block users uploading malware to your blog?

Many shared hosts don’t protect you from users uploading and executing malicious code to your website. Here is how to close that loop hole for hackers.

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An analysis of the latest website hacks

After the latest spree of hacks on thousands of websites, it is time to look at some of the commonalities and ways to security our sites better. Given that the security holes are clearly at the level of the website hosting companies, and it is their duty to close those holes, nothing stops us from [...]

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Godaddy hacked again. Another way to cure your site.

Godaddy got hacked again this morning (This is what Godaddy has to say about it). Update: and again on May 20. If you host your blog on Godaddy, you would do well to check your site regularly for any malware, and here is how. The hack is the same as the previous 4 hacks, affecting [...]

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