Tag Archives: SelfHosted

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines have become crucial to modern software development practices. CI/CD pipelines can significantly improve development efficiency and software quality by automating the process of building, testing, and deploying code. Most modern CI/CD platforms (like GitHub actions, Circle CI, etc.) offer an option to run the pipeline process over a self-hosted runner – an agent hosted by the user instead of the CI/CD platform, to execute jobs on their own infrastructure.

With self-hosted runners, you can create custom hardware configurations that meet your needs with processing power or memory to run larger jobs. Additionally, you can install software available on your local network and choose an operating system not offered by the…

A virtual private network (VPN) is vital to helping you stay secure online, which is especially beneficial in this modern era of smartphones. A VPN encrypts all network traffic to and from your device as it funnels that information through an external server. It also hides your unique home internet protocol (IP) address from all prying eyes, allowing you to stay incognito. Not even your internet service provider (ISP) can tell what sites you visit, only that you’re using a VPN. VPNs can even bypass blocked websites and allow you to watch content from other countries easily.

Unfortunately, not all VPN providers can be trusted, as some keep logs of your entire online browsing history. They can then take that data and sell it to various third-party…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about moving an SMB site from Wix to a self-hosted WordPress environment. He offered his opinion on this specific scenario and within this context discussed the relative merits and shortcomings of managed and self-managed WordPress for SMBs.

Small and Medium Businesses (SMB)

SMB means small and medium businesses and what those sizes mean is not anything set in stone, there are multiple definitions.

In general small businesses are those with under 100 employees. Medium size businesses are those with between 100 to 500 employees and some definitions rank medium as high as 1,000 employees.

Managed and Self-hosted WordPress Hosting

Managed WordPress hosting is a hosting environment where the web host takes care of all the technical…