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JetPack monitors your WordPress site in real time to ensure it’s online.

Want to know if your site goes down? I do. That way I can get it back online ASAP. I’ve been researching site monitoring services lately and most will check a site every 15-30 minutes unless you pay. 30 minutes before an alert is way to long. If you run WordPress, you can get your […]

Testing Out Nginx, WordPress & Varnish

If you’ve been reading my blog, or following me on Twitter, than you know I’m now managing my own server and I’m having some issues. It’s not this site, it’s a different one. I’ve tried a lot of things to make the site better and it seems better, but will sill randomly run out of […]

The Best Calvin and Hobbes Parodies

I love Calvin and Hobbes comics. I read them growing up and still love them today. Turns out I’m not the only one. There are still plenty of people making parodies of the dynamic duo.

It’s not WordPress’ Heartbeat and cron killing your server.

A few days ago I wrote about how WordPress’ Heartbeat and cron jobs were killing my server. Turns out I was wrong. John Havlik connected with me and helped me troubleshoot some things. Turns out that the real issue is the server settings. Now, I’m not going to tell you what to do to optimize […]

How to manage Google+ pages and profiles in the iOS app.

Google rolled out the ability to manage pages in the Google+ app quite a while ago, but the user experience is so bad that it took me quite a while to figure out how to do it. Once I figured it out though, I also figured out how to mange other Google+ profiles. To manage […]

Disabling WordPress’ Heartbeat & Cron To Save CPU

Update: It’s not heartbeat and cron, it’s your server. My journey down running my own server has hit a snag. It seems my machine likes to spike to 100% CPU and get stuck there until I force restart it. So I’ve been digging. One of the ideas I came across was disabling WordPress’ heartbeat. It […]