A past customer just called, with email trouble... suddenly their email had stopped delivering. This customer had been acquired by another company, and we had shut off their web hosting service months ago, as their website had been retired.
Sustainable/Open Business
6 things to consider before the next AWS outage
Yesterday Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a major outage in their US-East datacenter, in Virgina. It made all sorts of national news, largely because it affected some major online services.
Privacy Matters
Last week the Note to Self podcast put together a thought-provoking, action-inspiring series called The Privacy Paradox.
Drupal vs WordPress: Why there are no objective comparisons
WordPress versus Drupal. Republican versus Democrat. Two debates where the differences seem so broad, people can't even seem to agree upon fundamental facts. Why? Why is it so hard to find an objective, clear comparison of WordPress and Drupal? I've had several people ask this.
11 Questions Businesses need to ask themselves when choosing a Drupal host: The Comprehensive Freelock Hosting Guide
When choosing any service provider, a crucial question is, "What happens if something goes wrong?" When you're choosing a hosting provider, we like to dig a bit deeper, and ask what risks are likely to be an issue for you?
Here are some of our questions:
Why you need maintenance on your Drupal Site
Yesterday the Drupal security team gave a dire warning about extremely dangerous security vulnerabilities in multiple contributed modules. The fixes, and the details, would be released at 9am Pacific Time today.
8 Reasons Why Drupal 8
Drupal 8 has been out for 2 months now, and there's never been a better time to choose Drupal for your website platform. Here are 8 reasons why!
Drupal 8 migration status and surprises
We're digging into our first dry-run migrations from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8, and learning a lot about what's ready and what's not. And there's some surprises in there...
Behavior Driven Design in practice: A Behat test run
For many years, we've organized our development around user stories. What exactly is each user trying to accomplish, and what does that look like when they try to accomplish those tasks?
Why Drupal is a great fit for startups
Another sales call today, with a prospective start-upper who thought Drupal might lower his costs to get a web startup launched.
A hacked neglected site, Pantheon migration, and why you need a Drupal Site Assessment
We recently had a new client contact us and ask if we could move their sites over to Pantheon so they could do some in-house development work. Of course we can do that for you!
Selling a Drupal-based product
A month or so ago, this question came up in a