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Nexcess Announces New Features for Magento Turpentine Extension

Nexcess, a leading provider of Magento hosting and Magento Platinum Hosting Partner, has added several new features and enhancements to its popular open source Turpentine extension for Magento....

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Turpentine Update

It’s been a couple of months since we initially released the Turpentine extension for Magento. It has come quite a ways in that time, with these new features added: Hole-punch support via ESI (and...

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Zen and the Art of IT Support, Part I

When we think of “Zen and the art of [insert punny or topical subject here],” it’s usually a (knowing or unknowing) reference to Robert M. Pirsig’s 1974 novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle...

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Understanding Performance: The IOPS Fairy

Hello! I’m Jamie Alquiza, systems administrator at Nexcess. Performance is something our team discusses quite a bit. Today, I’ve got terrible news: IOPS are a myth. Well, almost. You may or may not be...

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Zen and the Art of IT Support, Part II: Beginning with Incident Management

When tackling a topic as large as IT support, the discussion (much too often) stalls at the point of deciding where to begin. After all, as I mentioned in the first part of this series, we debate the...

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More Tips To Keep Your WordPress Site Secure

Update, Update, Update! Everybody has seen this over and over again, and with good reason. WordPress is one of the most widely used Content Management Systems (CMS) for blogging and the security...

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Zen and the Art of IT Support, Part III: Knowledge Management

Zen and the Art of IT Support, Part III: Knowledge Management This is a continuation of a larger discussion of ITIL within IT support I started a few months ago. The first part is an overview (and...

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Addressing the Shellshock bug at Nexcess

All of our managed servers were patched for CVE-2014-6271 (the “shellshock” bug affecting the Bash shell used on most Linux- and Unix-based systems) on the September 24, 2014. As that was later found...

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Magento Security Advisory: Patch Bundle SUPEE-6788 Includes Fixes For...

The SUPEE-6788 patch for Magento Community Edition and Magento Enterprise Edition includes fixes for potential SQL injection, remote code execution, and cross site scripting vulnerabilities. On 27th...

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Making the Most of Your Holiday Social Media Strategy

Early forecasts for 2017 holiday sales look merry and bright for retailers. According to Deloitte, overall holiday sales are expected to grow up to 4.5 percent this year, topping $1 trillion between...

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