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As the 21st century marches onward and things like “smart devices” and “drones” and “3D printers” become the latest buzz, one truth remains in the digital age: Google has retained its steadfast grip (read: complete monopoly) on all things search. Despite initial scares from Facebook’s widely announced Open Graph technology, and Microsoft’s desperate attempts at […]

Optimizing MySQL configurations is without question the most difficult and debated of any typical server configuration process. While other software such as Ubuntu, Nginx, or PHP are generally quite similar over the course of several releases, MySQL (and other SQL derivatives) can change drastically between version releases. And, unlike some other server applications, changing a […]

Here at LittleBizzy our goal is simple: to eliminate as many bills, accounts, logins, and clutter from the WordPress experience as possible while simultaneously improving the loading speed and security of our clients’ websites. Interestingly, these two goals are often extremely complementary to each other and are usually inter-dependent. I owe some of you an […]

LittleBizzy is excited to announce a new partnership with UptimeRobot to monitor the uptime of all our client websites. Some of you are aware that we’ve been in talks with Pingdom over the past several months, but due to limitations in both their billing and alert systems, we began looking for an alternative monitoring service. […]

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default ## this block redirects all HTTP/HTTPS www traffic to non-www version server { server_name www.example.com; listen *:80; listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on; listen *:443 ssl; listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/nginx.crt; ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/nginx.key; ## enable below to activate CloudFlare Authenticated Origin Pulls ## copy cloudflare.crt from https://blog.cloudflare.com/protecting-the-origin-with-tls-authenticated-origin-pulls/ # ssl_client_certificate /etc/ssl/cloudflare.crt; # ssl_verify_client on; return […]

SSL. It’s the word of the year, it would seem, ever since Google’s late 2014 announcement that installing an SSL certificate on your website would effect rankings in their search engine algorithm. And all for the better, as I’ve written about before: traditional SEO is dead and things are finally starting to get exciting again […]

Alexa rank. Mention the phrase in casual conversation, and you’ll quickly find out which of the people nearby you are internet marketing geeks of any sort. For several years, the rather mysterious online ranking system has been a source of both pure joy and ongoing frustration (confusion?) for millions of website owners around the world. […]

FTP is a fascinating technology, if only because its history is so rife with ambiguity. The modern FTP protocol (RFC 959) was actually invented way back in 1985, a full ten years before its more-famous cousin HTTP (1.0) was launched in 1996. Over the past few decades, however, HTTP began evolving much faster than FTP […]

Several years ago, during the trend-obsessed Web 2.0 generation, subdomains saw a huge rise in popularity for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that large corporations like Yahoo.com and Google.com started offering various services like Yahoo Answers, Gmail, and likewise via their subdomains for “better” organization. (Sidenote: there are many times […]

In late 2014, Google announced that websites with SSL support (encryption) would begin receiving a boost in their search results in certain instances. Despite their insistence that less than 1% of global searches would be effected, the announcement resulted in a mad rush for SSL certificates the world over. And while certain “guru” bloggers tried […]