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12 years ago @ The WordPress Guy - 9 great WordPress shop... · 0 replies · +1 points
From my experience it is very important for the longterm success of a website to have long term support from your theme and plugin providers. I am not a fan of how some theme sellers have limited follow up support for themes purchased.
I think using a plugin like WP eCommerce makes sense because of the flexibility and long term support it offers.
Also you are very right about portability, if the eCommerce is built in you can never get a new theme, madness really as the theme could be out of date within 12 months.
Thanks again for your comment.
12 years ago @ The WordPress Guy - 9 great WordPress shop... · 0 replies · +1 points
Thank you so much for this comment. I have added the information to the post as it is very helpful for anyone wanting to build large eCommerce sites.
I am a fan of Storefront Themes and am building an impressive site right now with one of your themes which will be revealed in a few weeks.
All the best and thanks again for contributing to help others.
12 years ago @ The WordPress Guy - 9 great WordPress shop... · 0 replies · +1 points
Thanks so much for your feedback, I have added it with a credit to you in the post. All of these real life experiences help others understand these shopping carts a little better.
12 years ago @ The WordPress Guy - Why use mediatemple.ne... · 0 replies · +1 points
Firstly thank you so much for taking the time to comment and I am so pleased you find my insights useful.
Regarding the capabilities of mediatemple I don't speak for them but I can tell you I know personally of at least 2 sites that have around 5000 visitors per day, day in day out on a Media Temple grid service account. And that was before Cloudflare was added as a FREE addon service to Media Temple hosting. For more information read this http://mediatemple.net/cloudflare/
Regarding using google apps, you don't need to if it just to reduce load on the hosting but I highly recommend using google apps for long term simplicity. I have used it myself for a few years now and its brilliant.
My rule of thumb is keep your Domain, Website and Email hosting on independent platforms. Then if an issue arises on one you can make changes on the other to fix the issue quickly.
I hope that helps and all the best with your project and all of those events you are running from April until October.
12 years ago @ The WordPress Guy - How to install bbPress... · 0 replies · +1 points
So glad it helped you get the forum going and you were the inspiration for this post as I was explaining it to you and it grew from there.
Your forum is looking great and I can't wait to see it grow now its active.
Thanks for inspiring me to learn and grow and teach others.
12 years ago @ The WordPress Guy - How to fix Timthumb se... · 0 replies · +1 points
Sorry not good news. Locking the back door after the burglars are in the house won't make them disappear unfortunately.
Maybe you need to go to these guy and find out costs to clean up the website as they know how to for a fee. http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
Kind regards,
Tony
12 years ago @ The WordPress Guy - How to fix Timthumb se... · 0 replies · +1 points
Don't sweat it, as one of my VIP clients I have just made the change to your website and you are safe from the issue already.
Kind regards,
Tony
12 years ago @ The WordPress Guy - How to make your own W... · 0 replies · +1 points
Thanks so much for your generous feedback. I too though 404 pages were painful until I found this solution.
Enjoy.
Kind regards,
Tony
12 years ago @ The WordPress Guy - Why use mediatemple.ne... · 0 replies · +1 points
Well that is a shame even though you were sharing songs you had written and recorded yourself you were kicked off the other hosting.
I think in this scenario you should consider hosting the music files on dropbox or amazonS3 and link to them via your website when people want to download them. You can still stream the files from dropbox or AmazonS3. I would suggest a plugin like audio player to do that. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/audio-player/
All the best with it and let me know how you go.
12 years ago @ The WordPress Guy - Why use mediatemple.ne... · 2 replies · +1 points
Thanks for your question,
Firstly you regarding the CloudFlare service, it does look quite impressive as a concept and I am interested in your experience as a user. I would be a little reluctant to add an extra point of failure to a website as you are now relying on webhosting and CloudFlare to be online to deliver your website. Also adding yet another company to talk to regarding each website sounds like hard work too.
From what I could see in their help section mediatemple is mentioned so it seems it would be fine. http://support.cloudflare.com/kb/can-i-use-cloudf...
They also recommend installing the CloudFlare plugin for optimal performance. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cloudflare/
If you are 'sharing files' that are not your own any hosting company will exercise their right to kick you off their service as they are meant to when they become aware of such activity going on. High amounts of downloads will usually get checked out as they also don't want to overload their server processors if they can help it.
W3 total cache works fine to my knowledge with Mediatemple.
All the best with your challenges and I hope that helps a little.
Kind regards,
Tony
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