“It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products,” ~ Lamar Smith, Republican Chairman of House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Well, Google, Facebook, WordPress, Wikipedia and YOU did it!? The controversial anti-piracy bill called SOPA has [...]
When WordPress, the world’s most popular Blogging and Content Management System, takes a political stand you know it must be important.? WordPress tends to shy away from the political spectrum since it has its hands full keeping both WordPress.com and WordPress.org running smoothly in terms of new updates, features and security enhancements But on January [...]
While Nostradamus may have cornered the market for apocalyptic predictions, in the IT world many turn to Gartner Inc., for insights into what may be in store for business owners, consumers and SMBs over the next 12 months. They released their top 10 strategic technologies for 2012 which you may find useful in analyzing your [...]
Since Midphase is in the business of offering cheap web hosting, we follow technology trends in data centers and web servers carefully. This also includes breakthroughs in Supercomputers, which form the spear tip of America’s struggle to remain the leading IT innovator on the planet. Generally, what’s good for supercomputers is good for you, since [...]
We are excited to announce that we will be migrating all of our shared hosting servers over to the C7 data center facility located here in Utah. A schedule of server migration will be updated on the midPhase Status Blog. All moves will be done from 10:00 p.m. MDT through 2:00 a.m. MDT although individual [...]
Important Update: It was announced late last year that PHP 5.2 will no longer be supported. Here is the actual quote from the PHP development team regarding the matter. ?The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.16. This release marks the end of support for PHP 5.2. All users [...]
Ever wonder how your site stacks up on the search engines? Or how you can improve your rankings? There are many elements to your site that affect its ranking in the search engines. As a site owner it is important to be aware of these and how they affect your rankings. Having this knowledge empowers [...]
What is your favorite CMS? vs. vs. Recently some of us at the midPhase offices were debating about which content management system was the best. While there are a lot of great CMS solutions out there, we narrowed down our debate to WordPress, Joomla, & Drupal. One thing that has surprised me in working within [...]
MIDPHASE IS GOING REBOOTLESS! That’s right; our team of highly skilled System Administrators is currently preparing to deploy Ksplice on all midPhase Linux shared hosting servers. What is Ksplice? Ksplice gives us the ability to apply important kernel security updates released by CentOS/Red Hat Linux without having to reboot the server. What does this mean [...]
Last month we concluded our survey offering participants a spot in our Google Nexus One phone giveaway contest. We received many responses gaining insight to make Midphase better for everyone. We are very excited to announce the winner is?
