Adventure with WPEngine – A Review

A Review of WPEngine Actually a review that was updated various times to make it a consistent post and I wanted to jot down my impressions on the fly and first hand. On other occasions it is unintentional as I push the WordPress publish button too early because it is placed wrongly in my opinion … Continue reading “Adventure with WPEngine – A Review”

Does Cloudflare Take Away Your Traffic?

This image is in respect to Chair Blog Does Cloudflare Take Away Your Traffic? I’m not sure, but on Chair Blog, after I had enabled Google Analytics on January 15, 2012 and had enabled Cloudflare on March 5, 2012, all seemed to go reasonably smooth, until after a peak in visits on November 8, all … Continue reading “Does Cloudflare Take Away Your Traffic?”

To VPS or Not to VPS?

Introduction Some readers may remember that a year ago Happy Hotelier and its significant sister blog Chair Blog were kicked from its then shared hosting plan by a Dutch Hosting Company without any pre warning. I was Furious!, to say the least. After the dust had settled it appeared (and they admitted) they had been … Continue reading “To VPS or Not to VPS?”

Migrating to a VPS Cloud Solution

After migrating to Westhost, two months ago, I’ve been looking at the performance of this site. Luckily the visitors have been coming back slowly, but gradually. Thank you all! However I was not content with the load time. In addition, in the future I want to deploy the photos via a CDN (Content Delivery Network) … Continue reading “Migrating to a VPS Cloud Solution”

Back to Normal – Lessons Learned (Things Hosting Companies don’t tell their Customers)

I was panic stricken when I discovered Happy Hotelier was suspended by my Dutch Internet Hosting company. Were hours and hours of work possibly put down the drain? What amount of work involved the quick unforeseen move? I really didn’t have that amount of time available…Luckily we’re back to normal now…more or less, because the … Continue reading “Back to Normal – Lessons Learned (Things Hosting Companies don’t tell their Customers)”