New cPanel Theme

by Kyle on · Posted in News · 0 Comments

Throughout the past couple weeks, we've been implementing our new cPanel theme on our servers. While most of the features you're used to still exist, we've added a number of things to help monitor and maintain your site.

Link Luv Module For ExpressionEngine

by Kyle on · Posted in ExpressionEngine · 6 Comments

Link Luv is a module for ExpressionEngine that's similar to Comment Luv for WordPress. When a visitor to your site leaves a comment on your blog, it will display a link to the most recent entry from their RSS feed.

KeyAds Module For ExpressionEngine

by Kyle on · Posted in ExpressionEngine · 3 Comments

KeyAds is a module for ExpressionEngine that allows you to display content to your visitors—like an ad or block of HTML code—based on keywords they enter in a search engine, or based on the referring domain.

Using Google Apps For Email

by Kyle on · Posted in Howto · 0 Comments

Google Apps provides you with the ability to use Google's computing cloud to deliver email service for up to 50 users on your domain for free.

Setting up Google Apps for your domain is simple, and this short tutorial will show you how to integrate Google Apps for your domain.

Professional Magento Upgrade Service

by Kyle on · Posted in Magento · 3 Comments

Want to upgrade your store to the latest version of Magento but are worried something might go wrong?

Don't stress over the possibility of a botched upgrade ruining your store, breaking your current design, or throwing up errors that you're not sure how to fix.

Crucial offers a professional upgrade service to all of our clients that will take away the stress and hassle of doing it yourself.

Setting Up A Magento Staging Area

by Kyle on · Posted in Howto, Magento · 1 Comment

The best way to test out a new Magento release without potentially destroying your production store is to setup a staging area.

A staging area is a duplicate of your primary store that you can use to see if the upgrade process will go smoothly, and also allow you to use both the frontend and backend of your site to see if everything is running properly.

Ecommerce PCI Compliant Hosting

by Rick on · Posted in Ecommerce, PCI-DSS · 0 Comments

PCI-DSS is a set of requirements that the major credit card companies have put in place to enhance cardholder payment data security. If you are a merchant that accepts credit cards for purchases online you are required to comply with the PCI-DSS requirements.

How To Setup Multiple Magento Stores

by Kyle on · Posted in Howto, Magento · 20 Comments

There are numerous ways to setup multiple Magento stores that all share the same codebase and backend, but what method you use depends on your needs.

This article is written with cPanel in mind, though the methodologies listed below apply no matter what control panel you're using.

Solid Gold: Crucial Partners With Varien & Magento

by Kyle on · Posted in Magento, News · 0 Comments

We are very pleased to announce the advancement of our partnership with Varien, the developers of Magento, an open source ecommerce solution for businesses of all sizes.

Improving Magento Speed & Performance With MySQL Query Cache

by Rick on · Posted in Howto, Magento · 1 Comment

Improving Magento performance is at the top of the list for most professional Magento developers. There's no doubt that enhancing the speed at which Magento performs can only be good for business.

What Is Split-Shared Hosting?

by Rick on · Posted in Hosting · 0 Comments

Split-Shared hosting was first introduced in October 2007, to take advantage of the resource isolation, scalability and performance enhancements that OS virtualization provides.

Split-Shared hosting is the concept of splitting shared hosting accounts into small, isolated groups of 5, 10, or 20 clients. Each client then shares the guaranteed resources of a virtual container or hosting environment with only 19, 9, or 4 other clients or neighbors.