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Archive for March, 2008

Exceptional Website Performance Tip from Yahoo

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Exceptional Performance: “Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. They conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Their best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites.”

These are great tips.

Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

The guys at Blue Design Studio has a brand new list of their favourite Wordpress Content Management System (CMS) Plugins.
It is a great list for those interested in using Wordpress as a CMS. 
Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins | Blueprint Design Studio

Cloud computing round-up

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

John M Willis has a superb post -  Demystifying Clouds - on the the state and future of utility computing and clouds.
If you have any interest at all in the future of computing, this article wil help you get a flavour of what is to come.
I recent signed up for a Mosso account account [...]

Revamping the Hosting model

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

As Internet Services consultants, one of the most challenging projects we have be tasked with is to take a previously successful Hosting business and “revamp the strategy” to regain a “greater market share” and “make more money”. This less than adequate brief is typical of many hosting service providers who have seen their grasp on [...]