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Recently I needed to run a Ruby app on cPanel using a non-standard Apache port (i.e. http://mydomain.com:6000) but wanted to send live traffic to a subdomain with SSL (i.e. https://sub.mydomain.com). After some research along with some trial and error I discovered a method that worked easily, therefore I wanted to share it to hopefully save […]
From time-to-time we’ll often get requests from customers on how to run Ruby apps on cPanel. Over the years we’ve seen a steep decline in such requests, but there are certainly still instances where it’s much needed. Despite cPanel adding their Application Manager to run Ruby on Rails with Phusion Passenger, I’ve still found it […]
Most of the time when you get web hosting and install WordPress on it, everything works by default out of the box. But sometimes, you might try doing things a little differently – perhaps install software that isn’t standardized, for example. Or you may need to increase certain in-built PHP limits like the memory allocation, […]
If you’re a newbie to web hosting, you might have seen services on certain web hosts, offering “page builders” to create your new site. Or perhaps you’ve heard of products like “Wix”, which allow you to host your site on their domain, and which allow you to quickly build out site elements like contact forms, […]
As web designs constantly evolve, new trends take hold for a while, and then vanish. Over a span of 12 years, my own site has undergone many redesigns – each of which represented a different phase of web evolution. And it’s not just the outward appearance that’s subject to these trends. Many different backend processes […]
These days I’m seeing more and more sites ditch the left or right sidebar that’s such a staple of website design. And indeed, how many of us include a sidebar merely by habit? Because we saw it somewhere else? When making the decision to keep or remove the sidebar, we also need to rely on […]
I woke up this morning to see the following message from Google in my e-mail inbox: I wasn’t surprised by this of course. In fact, I’ve been expecting this. Google has been warning us for a long time that they’re removing support for noindex in robots.txt. So if you’ve been relying on this to prevent […]
Comments and discussions on a website can be tricky, and there are many solutions to this. One of these is Facebook comments. I’m seeing more and more sites implement Facebook comments, and it usually pains me to see them. There are so many disadvantages to using Facebook comments, that literally anything else would be a […]
With the number of options available to website owners these days, I don’t blame them if they suffer from a bit of choice paralysis:). Along with all the features available on different hosting products, they also need to figure out the details of an important part of their security – namely SSL. Since last year, […]
When designing websites for mobile devices, you’ll keep finding unusual use cases that you didn’t plan for. No matter how responsive your theme is, you’ll need to decide how to handle a variety of scenarios. Tables are one example. I’ve long struggled with the conundrum of how to display them on mobile devices. Should responsive […]