PHP has been an Internet mainstay for well over a decade. Originally created to make boring, static home pages more dynamic and interesting (factoid: PHP originally stood for Personal Home Pages!) it is now nearly ubiquitous in deployment, installed on over one million web servers all over the planet. Much of PHP’s success can [...]
DNS is ubiquitous on the Internet, yet it is often misunderstood and remains a mystery to most people. As a hosting provider we administer and troubleshoot DNS issues several times per day, if not several times per hour; so we thought it would be fun and educational to write up a series of posts regarding [...]
About a year ago, I was onsite at our colocation getting some work done. While I was there a fellow that ran a large competing web hosting company had also come in to do the same. Being a cordial guy I walked over and introduced myself, we exchanged pleasantries and discussed our industry and rival [...]
DNS is ubiquitous on the Internet, yet it is often misunderstood and remains a mystery to most people. As a hosting provider we administer and troubleshoot DNS issues several times per day, if not several times per hour; so we thought it would be fun and educational to write up a series of posts regarding [...]