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Affiliates: Triple Payouts For 30 Days

2011-08-17T17:36:14+00:00

For the next 30 days, we're paying our affiliates 3x the commission rate on all of our hosting products!

Testing Magento With PHP 5.3 Using XAMPP

2011-02-28T21:13:06+00:00

How to setup XAMPP on your local computer to test for Magento (or other PHP-based application) compatibility in an environment where PHP 5.3 is running.

New cPanel Theme

2010-03-10T21:11:01+00:00

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

2010-02-07T19:56:45+00:00

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

2010-02-06T19:33:21+00:00

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

2009-03-02T19:45:30+00:00

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.

Setting Up A Magento Staging Area

2009-01-15T20:33:48+00:00

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

2009-01-06T19:59:00+00:00

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

2008-12-28T17:30:24+00:00

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.

Improving Magento Speed & Performance With MySQL Query Cache

2008-05-26T03:59:48+00:00

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?

2008-01-28T02:13:17+00:00

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.

Magento Hosting

2007-11-10T12:20:31+00:00

I've been reading a lot of posts on the Magento forum about installation troubles, specifically with mod_rewrite (htaccess) and the MySQLi and PDO_MySQL extensions for PHP. As mentioned in our Magento installation guide, Crucial's Split-Shared hosting is fully compatible with Magento.

Magento Commerce Install Guide

2007-11-08T12:19:59+00:00

This is a step-by-step tutorial on installing Magento Commerce on one of our Split-Shared hosting accounts. I was recently introduced to Magento in a pre-sales chat. Up until that chat, I had never heard about it, but decided to check it out.

High Availability Split-Shared Hosting

2007-10-14T12:20:01+00:00

Crucial's Split-Shared hosting is kept in a highly available hosting environment. The Split-Shared hosting service is an advanced service provider configuration that places shared hosting accounts or services on individual Virtual Environments (VEs).

Htaccess, Apache, And Rewrites! Oh, My!

2007-09-27T12:20:46+00:00

As a web designer or developer, it is important to know how to use the htaccess file to your advantage. It is a very powerful tool, and can even work as a deterrent for bandwidth thieves, exploits, and hackers. Below are some common examples of rules to consider when developing websites. We hope you find them useful.