Where the Sun Never Sets Content Empire
I’ve been an SEO since before Google bought Urchin.
My video SEO paradigm has always been “you’re wasting your time placing videos on your site without a sitemap”
Continue reading “The False Promises of Video Content for SEO”
Update 6/1/2021 ~ When I asked developers quoting me $2500 and 2 weeks, how they would be doing this procedurally, they always deferred.
In that (9) migrations never took more than 6 hours 2, weeks was a red flag. Two competent developers I use, would’t touch it.
This non~coder is going it alone.
Anyone can migrate a WordPress site, including me – this ain’t your mother’s migration.
We think telling stories is more fun than asking for “migration quotes” while building our content creation library.
Continue reading “The Curious Migration of WindyCityParrot.com to Woocommerce Ep1”
Regarding SiteGround AI security
Your Chat Transcript on 14/12/2019
Mitch Rezman: windycityparrot receiving following error intermittently Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. Additionally, a 503 Service Unavailable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.4.29 (Unix) mod_hive/6.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 Server at www.windycityparrot.com Port 443
Mitch Rezman: This question is related to account: birdandparrot.info
Mitch Rezman: sure – spike in core usage over the past 30 minutes
Lachezar U.: it could be as the site is loading fine on my end now – url:https://prnt.sc/qalk2c
Mitch Rezman: yes – buts crashing every 5 – 10 minutes and then recovering – I’ve had the site for 17 years – something is wrong – there was no traffic spike but there was a spike in core usage over the past 30 minutes – what would cause that?
Lachezar U.: that is strange, I do not find obvious reason for the spike, so let me post a ticket to our advanced techs for further investigation
Mitch Rezman: that would be great – I am waiting for my developer to mitigate a bot attack by installing Recaptcha – this is a zencart store (trying to move it to woo – https://www.screencast.com/t/q3aBaOe9
Lachezar U.: the ticket is just posted now and will be updated with more details in 15-20 minutes
Ticket 3380418 for account birdandparrot.info
Posted: 13 Dec, 2019 18:47 CST Status: Resolved
Ticket Subject: Technical Issues
Continue reading “Should I Be Worried About Cross-contamination of My WordPress Sites?”
HI Jim,
Hope your weekend is going well
When trying to add a new post in WordPress, the site times out.
I drilled down and it looks like a really quick fix – please provide a fix at your earliest convenience. (see SG support response below)
Hello Mitch,
Thank you for contacting our Help Desk center!
I checked your website and I noticed that upon creating a new post the page is loading with 404 page not found.
This is why I checked the setup of the website I noticed that there are two URLs applied for it:
Continue reading “How We Repaired A WordPress Database Crash After Site Migration”
If I were a cockatiel my crown would stand up straight when reading articles comparing web hosting sites like Shopify to WordPress.
There are other examples but to start because it appears that many people don’t understand the cord differences.
Shopify is a hosted platform.
You rent their servers, use their templates and are beholden to their support.
I think Shopify has about 600,000 stores right now.
WordPress is open source – it’s free, anyone can start a WordPress site although they will lead a host with the server to mount it on.
There are about 77,000,000 WordPress sites globally – about 1/3 of all internet sites.
Continue reading “Why Open Source Is An Experts Choice For Ecommerce Vs Hosted Platforms”
We are migrating our WordPress blog to a new host.
We will add the Woocommerce plugin and then migrate all the data from our current zen cart ecommerce store to the new woocommerce store
my short list is
https://getflywheel.com/pricing/
https://pressable.com/pricing/
https://www.dreamhost.com/website-builder
https://www.a2hosting.com/solutions
https://www.inmotionhosting.com/wordpress-hosting-promo?
https://www.siteground.com/speed
I didn’t see pricing on hyve.com
I may go with 2 hosts because we have 4
‘hobby” sites that are really small but our current site gets 100,000 page views/mo and I like dedicated servers.
Flywheel is cool (I thought) because you can build your dev site on your desktop for free and when you’re ready to go live you can just push it to their servers – no muss no fuss,
They also have something called “Blueprint” which maps out any number plug-ins that you use on a regular basis.
They (the plug-ins) can be added to any new site with a single click
Stay tuned
I’m old enough to have a Medicare card
Yet I Lord also over a dozen websites on three hosting platforms.
I make my living in have done so from e-commerce for 15 years.
Have 400,000 social media followers because of my expertise in captive bird husbandry.
I still have a thirst to learn something new every day.
My day gig is WindyCityParrot.com, which has been around since New Year’s Eve 2002 when my wife Catherine launched it.
Since then I’ve built dozens, maybe a hundred or more websites.
You get the picture. I know e-commerce.
3 WordPress hosts – reviewed
For a convoluted set of reasons, our current eCommerce platform is a hybrid WordPress/Zen Cart.
This combination is not working on a number of levels especially for SEO.
There are many reasons for it but I’ve suspected several which I’ve recently confirmed.
Continue reading “Why You Don’t Know Jack About WordPress Migrations”
