Web Hosting Hardware Upgrades
This week we are beginning hardware upgrades to our hosted sites on our Apache server, affectionately referred to in-house as “SO5”. E-mail will not be impacted. During this process your site(s) will be moved to new machines. […]
Scary Stats: How we handle the traffic demands for ScaryMommy.com
We hear nightmare stories from clients who are gouged by hosting providers that charge exorbitant fees for bandwidth overages. Often these hosting plans include a small amount of bandwidth per month and charge an additional fee per terabyte leading to hosting bills that exceed $1500 per month. That is outrageous. […]
Fighting Spam: An uphill battle
Sononaco has partnered with Securence to provide enterprise-grade spam filtering. […]
Sites Hacked August 3rd 2014
On Sunday the 3rd several of our hosted sites were attacked and defaced by some Kurdish hackers. […]
July 2014 Uptime Report
The numbers are in for July and they look pretty good! While we strive for 100% uptime, things happen such as maintenance and the occasional false positive, which we had a couple of this month. This is the summary report generated by our monitors at SiteUptime.com. To protect our client’s privacy we have removed the actual […]
Digging deeper: Behind our SMS/Text Message App
Recently we launched a custom-built SMS/Text Messaging application for the Illinois Corn Growers Association. We had the pleasure of working with ILCGA through our partners at Gray Street Solutions. […]
WordPress 3.9 is Here!
WordPress 3.9 has been released and provides several updates and improvements primarily to the admin and back-end editing functions. Below is an overview of updated functionalities: Updated visual editor – the updated visual editor has improved speed, accessibility, and mobile support Improved widget interface – features live previews New theme browser Audio and video playlists Gallery […]
Hosting Change: Moving to FTPS
We are making some changes to the way some of our sites are accessed. And no, this has nothing to do with the Heartbleed bug, which was patched the day it was announced. For the most part, all of our WordPress sites are rarely managed outside of an FTP system. Management of the sites are […]