Liquid Web will be the first of the year to kickoff numerous acquisitions in the hosting economy. Lots of these have been held over because of the holidays, legal, tax, etc. reasons to expect a very busy first quarter. From the press release, The Events Calendar Joins the Liquid Web Family: “This wasn’t just a […]
Category: Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee: Hard Week for Hosts
Today is for covering a hard week for a couple of hosts. The industry is hard enough but honestly these issues are a little different than the usual DNS attacks (which still are non-stop and unrelenting throughout the year). Managed.com Update First we have Managed.com getting waylaid by ransomware. In a followup from E Hacking […]
Morning Coffee: Ecommerce Email & Donuts
Email and donuts, what could be better. Significant partnerships and acquisitions in email marketing space are shaping up for some of the largest hosting companies. Donuts acquires as well. The WooCommerce Email World Back in September I posted Everything You Need to Know About Ecommerce Email Marketing in 2020 – read that as a recap […]
Morning Coffee: Marketing and Managing
Still going crazy with lists, and advice, and blogs, and experts for #BFCM preparation (which of course will be valuable for ecommerce in the long haul). Also a little bit more about this week’s deplatforming. WooCommerce and SMS Ok, while not the only players in the field, Omnisend has a little bit on the value […]
Morning Coffee: BREAKING: Managed Host Down!
BREAKING: This is the worst of all worlds. DotNetNuke (DNN) host and Deluxe brand Managed.com looks to not only be unavailable but reports on WebHosting Talk suspect a very nefarious situation – ransomware. Not sure on the scope, and I assume there are backups somewhere for customers that are firewalled from this outage but this […]
Morning Coffee: Optimal Optimization
Ok, we have less than two weeks until the internet door busting shopping spectacle known as Black Friday / Cyber Monday (BFCM) unleashes. While many online stores are already ramping up with early deals, I certainly expect special SPECIALS on the traditional days. Are you ready for it? But first a public service announcement from […]
Morning Coffee: Google ‘Kills’ Webmasters
Talk about a term that hasn’t been used in a looooong time – webmaster – I definitely remember that being a webmaster really meant you had achieved some level of digital awesomeness. The title was the same from a small business to the enterprise. It was magically egalitarian. It also lived in the CIOs silo. […]
Morning Coffee: Triskaidekaphilia
Yes that’s my made up word for love of Friday the 13th, it’s Friday – what’s not to love about that! – and also my sister’s birthday, so super shout out to a wonderful woman and mother! Don’t worry this won’t be a list of 13 items. Automating Success Let’s get positive with gain, Learn […]
Morning Coffee: .TRUST
So this is a little breaking news in the domain name ecosystem, fresh in my inbox from Jothan Frakes, .TRUST TLD moves from NCC Group to UNR (Uniregistry). There are so many top-level domains (TLDs) that it’s hard to keep track but surprised this one hasn’t had more play this year. In the domain name […]
Morning Coffee: A Birthday for a Demo
Aren’t there a lot of demos? Actually only one, yeah, just one – for those in the Joomla and WordPress open source communities, we know him as Demo – for the rest of you, Mike Demopoulos. Mike’s celebrating some birthday of some significance to him (don’t ask him about his age, he can be shy […]