
Layout Builders versus Content Management - are you making this mistake?
Glitzy websites are all the rage these days. Everybody seems to be looking for easy ways to create multimedia-rich pages with ease.

Is your host a single point of failure?
Just ran across a sad story where Digital Ocean is accused of killing a startup:

Assessment of May 8 Drupal Security update SA-CORE-2019-007
New versions of Drupal core dropped today, to fix a file handling issue.
After assessing the patches, statements, and risks associated with this update, we have decided this is an important update to apply, but not urgent for most of the sites we manage.

Do you REALLY know the firm you're partnering with? Get to know Freelock!
How much do you know about the firm you're partnering with for web development and DevOps? Watch our quick video to get to know our founder John Locke better!

Freelock Earns Top Recognition on Clutch!
At Freelock, we’re in the business of building websites that make your business better.

What's up on Nerd Mountain? Enterprise Dev Ops for Everybody
Go ahead... Make My Changes in Prod
You thought I was going full "Dirty Harry" there, didn't ya? It's okay, I kinda wanted to as well. You can't go wrong with Clint Eastwood.

Ask Freelock: "Traditional hosts" vs "cloud providers"
A client asks about yet another hosting option:
The VPS-2000HA-S includes the following resources:
6GB RAM (burstable)
150GB SSD Disk space
5TB Monthly Bandwidth
4 free dedicated IP's

Basecamp moves from Medium to WordPress, and kinda misses the point
Software as a Service (SaaS) is all the rage these days.

What's up on Nerd Mountain? Wordpress 5.0 Makes Wordpress a "Layout Builder"--What Does that Mean?
Wordpress's most recent release, which they are calling "5.0" (catchy, huh?), comes with a bunch of new functionality and makes the solution "easier to use". Of course, I'm putting "easier to

WordPress reaches 5.0!
A major new release for WordPress dropped today -- perhaps the one with the biggest impact in WordPress history!
Should you upgrade?
Probably not just yet. At least not if you have content to publish.

What's up on Nerd Mountain? Go Ahead Make Changes in Prod! We Got Your Back
Have you ever heard the one about the web developer who goes in to make one last change to the site at 4:45PM on a Friday afternoon? It is SUCH an easy fix--he can get it done and go home for the weekend with his head held high. Ah, what a relaxing weekend it will be!

What's up on Nerd Mountain? Drupal 8 Means A Lot of Free Stuff
Come join us up on Nerd Mountain!