How I Research & Prepare Blog Posts

2018 was a year that I devoted most of my energy to video. This was necessary in order to establish the two YouTube channels I run, though I admittedly did enjoy spending more time recording videos after years of writing every day. A break from writing was long overdue. I had been writing so long … Read more

Wetopi – A Great Solution for Low Traffic WordPress Websites

The managed WordPress hosting market is extremely competitive. It originally started out as a niche service, however over the last few years we have seen established shared hosting and VPS hosting companies target the WordPress market (SiteGround are a good example of this). As someone who has been using cPanel since the early 2000s and … Read more

Migrating Websites From OVH to VULTR

Changing your website hosting setup is rarely an enjoyable experience; particularly if you adopt a hands-on approach and deal with it all yourself. The other day I explained my disappointment with VaultPress. I had used the VaultPress backup service since it launched in 2010 and their one-click restore feature should have meant my blog’s migration … Read more

Why a Loyal Customer Left VaultPress & Won’t Go Back

VaultPress is a premium backup and security service from Automattic. It was not the first backup solution for WordPress, but for me it was the first one that got things right with hourly backups and one-click restores. When it comes to backups, I do not take any chances. Any website owner will tell you that … Read more

VideoProc – A GPU Accelerated Video Processing Solution

VideoProc is a video editing and processing solution that YouTubers, Twitch users, and other video producers, will find useful. It’s hard to fit the application into any one category as the software does a lot of things. It does video editing, video processing, video file conversion, DVD backups, and screen recording and webcam recording. It … Read more