Daniel Watrous

So you want to backup your WordPress blog. I suppose you heard someone say that you should. Hopefully you’re not someone who just suffered the crushing blow of losing your life’s work, your Magnum Opus. Whatever your scenario (and I really hope you’re doing this before things go south), I’m going to show you the [...]

I sat down to write this post about FTP and figured I would make a video about how to do it. But like any good (lazy) engineer, I went first to see what I could find on youtube.  All the videos sucked.  That’s not because they didn’t show you how to FTP. Instead it’s because [...]

In my ongoing analogy, a dedicated server would be a lot like a house or independent building.  This article builds on my web hosting comparison.  Getting a dedicated server is the first hosting option that doesn’t share a resource (strictly speaking, they all share resources, such as network bandwidth and electricity, but in the case [...]

VPS hosting corresponds to renting or buying an apartment or condo.  This articles builds on the web hosting comparison article.  VPS hosting is still shared hosting, but there is more isolation and finer control over how you use the resources that are available to you.  These plans generally range from $20 to$200, depending on how [...]

Shared web hosting corresponds to staying in a motel or hotel.  This article builds on the web hosting comparison article.  Shared hosting might have different names at different hosting companies, but a quick and easy way to know if your in this category is that the cost will generally range in price from FREE to [...]

You don’t have to read this whole article As I write this article I expect that only a small percentage of people will have any reason to read beyond the third paragraph.  I’ll probably offend someone with the reason I give for this, but I invite you to prove me wrong.  Unfortunately the cards are [...]

It’s hard to say that number of times that I’ve told my clients to choose strong passwords.  No matter how many times I do, it’s just hard work to choose good passwords because they’re so hard to remember.  Well, as a  reminder to them I wanted to point out a great article I read about [...]

The video below is a recording of a session I presented on the campus of Boise State University as a presenter at the 2010 Boise code camp.  It covers the entire process for building a membership website, including how to make a plan that will maximize your conversion rate, even before you spend a minute [...]

A few weeks ago I posted a PDF and a write up about how to create a two level membership website.  Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a live one hour session at Boise State University as part of this years Code Camp.  The focus will be membership websites and will extend much of what I wrote [...]

I did several live internet broadcasts at the beginning of the year for one of my membership sites. It’s been about two years since I did my first broadcast and these went off a lot better than my original broadcast. Since I have the technology stack worked out fairly well at this point I wanted [...]