Kevin Pirnie's Hosting Articles

Whitelabel Nameservers on Route53

This is a quick(ish) how to that you can do to utilize one of your registered domains on Amazon's Route53 service. Required: A registered Domain An account with Amazon's AWS, in particular, their Route53 service An IAM account, with API access to allow the creation, reading, and updating Route53 Domain…

DNS Propagation

Have you ever updated your domain’s A record and noticed that, for at least several hours, your new domain displayed the new site on one device (such as your smartphone), but the old site on another device, such as your home computer? Have you ever updated your domain’s MX records…

SSL and Your Wordpress Site

Many people think securing a website with SSL (SSL encryption) is necessary only if they’re selling products or services via their website and collecting credit card or payment information. What many website owners do not realize is that SSL encryption has other very important benefits for small business owners. To…

High Performance Wordpress and Server - Part II - Theme Development

In part I, I walked you through my server setup to achieve a 1 second load time for my site.  It is a Wordpress site, with a custom theme I developed. I gandered at the possibility of by-passing Wordpress's front-end engine, however, I found myself needing some of the built-in functionality…