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A customer just deployed the new image format: WebP. Unfortunately: it is not supported by many browsers (per i dag), including the Apple desktops & devices using Safari. While the savings of file size is more than 20% against TinyPNG, the backward compatibility is really more important. So we will have have to wait some more… read more »

It is time to talk about domain name. The data here is correct as of today: 19 October 2018. The number of top-level domains keeps growing year by year. Det er 1,578 toppnivådomener, of which 312 are country-code. Within those 312 country-codes, 19 of them are considered generic by Google: .ad .as .bz .cc… read more »

Prisen på en cPanel-lisens for en dedikert server er mer enn det dobbelte av den virtuelle serveren. Mens denne prisforskjellen ikke kan forklares (det kan være for støtte for ikke-standard maskinvare?), some hosting companies have noticed this and to lower their cost they are installing a virtualization layer on their… read more »

It is always easy to find a cheaper hosting company, but there is a ceiling to how low it can go before compromising either: the uptime or your data. This is a TRUE story. Recently a (very cheap) hosting company had a disk crash: the server was offline for 6 days to go through the… read more »

It is quite amazing that some (many?) hosting companies are still charging for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, whereas those are now free: either with WHM/cPanel using Let’s Encrypt (and the renewal are free & automatic!) or using a third party like SSL For Free. The word needs to go out that SSL is not an… read more »