In a recent article, I spoke at length about the free WPX Hosting Plan Resource Update of last September. From the viewpoint of the end-user, it was just a simple increase to some limits. When looking at it from an…
Ivan Arnaudov
Small e-commerce business owner & self-taught system administrator. Combined 20+ years of experience with WordPress/WooCommerce and OpenCart, Apache/Litespeed web stack expert.
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Last summer, I wrote a column for WPX called ‘A Better Web Mail Client for WPX‘. In my opinion, the officially available web-based mail client the company offered to its users back then was functional but not sufficiently convenient. Sure,…
A couple of months ago I had the chance to talk with WPX co-founder and CTO Georgi Petrov about the update to all hosting plan limits that is taking place today. Over the years, WPX have performed multiple upgrades behind…
This is a question I hear quite often. People will ask me what I think about various popular WordPress security tools such as Sucuri, WordFence, etc. My honest answer is that while such services can offer great value for a…
Internet users who want to use email with their own domain have somewhat limited choices. Even though almost every web hosting company will offer you ‘free’ and often ‘unlimited’ mailboxes, the service is usually quite bare-bones. Useful Webmail GUIs are…
One feature that is typical for the WordPress / WooCommerce ecosystem is the rapid speed of development. The community is very prolific and its members create a lot of updates every single day. Some of them bring new and improved…
In today’s column, I will discuss a frequently ignored aspect of WordPress behavior: the handling of http 404 ‘not found’ errors. I will explain the implications of this problem and I will show you what I do to fix the…
The thing that motivates me in writing these columns for WPX.net is my desire to help you achieve mastery over WordPress. Mastery implies having knowledge and exerting control. There is one file within each WordPress installation that allows an inordinate…
This blog post will be somewhat different from what I usually write for my column at WPX. For starters, it will be shorter than the average, which — as the WPX team has delicately tried to suggest on more than…
I recently came across a new ambitious WP dashboard plugin by prolific developer Wibowo Sulistio which offers probably the most comprehensive set of data about your WordPress website and hosting environment one can get on a single screen. This plugin is called System…