Technology Resources
Explore the latest web design trends and tools with our comprehensive technology blog, packed with valuable resources and information.
Using a CloudFlare Content Delivery Network (CDN)
In the olden days, a website lived on a glorified computer known as a server. Any time anyone visited that website, the browser on their computer downloaded the images and other files from that server/computer. If ten people looked at the website at the same time, that means ten people were using that server at the same time. And if a hundred people were looking at the website at the same time… well, it wasn’t hard to crash that server. These days, most people use commercial hosting services… and a lot of websites use a CDN, or Content Delivery Network.
The Easiest Way to Get a Free SSL Certificate
The hour for SSL is nigh. Several customers have contacted us, worried about the new security warnings displaying in Chrome when they pull up their website with its URL that starts out with an http. This warning doesn’t mean your site has been hacked; it just means that you don’t have an SSL certificate set up for your website and your URL does not display as https. If you’re running a blog or other website for fun, you may not want to pay the approximately $60 per year that most hosting providers charge for an SSL certificate. Well, we have got some good news for you! You can, in fact, get a free SSL certificate… and it’s not that hard.
Remote Support with I.T. Roadmap: AeroAdmin
Last week, we quietly added a button to our Tech Support page. After years of using TeamViewer and Logmein products for remote support, we have switched to a new-to-us product called AeroAdmin. While we love offering remote support, we didn’t love the process of walking people through installing our remote support tools. And while Logmein is a great product that has gotten much easier to use in the past year or two, we don’t love the pricing for it—now over $100 per month. After all, the lower our cost for support tools, the less it costs you too. AeroAdmin is only $69.90 per seat per year, and it allows us to establish remote access to an unlimited number of computers.
