Learn Cloud & Hosting

Discover how to work with cloud storage and use hosting services for your web applications. These cloud and hosting tutorials will get you up and running in no time.
  1. .htaccess Files for the Rest of Us

    .htaccess Files for the Rest of Us

    Tutorial Beginner

    .htaccess files are used to configure Apache, as well a range of other web servers. Despite the .htaccess file type extension, they are simply text files...

  2. The Ultimate Quickstart Guide to Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

    The Ultimate Quickstart Guide to Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

    Tutorial Beginner

    Give your site a boost! Implement crucial optimization techniques that will improve not only your ySlow score, but your Google rank too. In this tutorial we...

  3. Using Timthumb with Custom URLs for Site Optimization

    Using Timthumb with Custom URLs for Site Optimization

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this article, I will share on how to get a better page speed score even when you are using TimThumb as your thumbnail resizer for your site. On my...

  4. How to Set Up a WordPress Development Environment for Windows

    How to Set Up a WordPress Development Environment for Windows

    Tutorial Beginner

    Having a local WordPress test environment is essential for developing themes, plugins, and updating sites. The last thing you want to do is update a live...

  5. 10 Quick Tips: Optimizing & Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

    10 Quick Tips: Optimizing & Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

    Tutorial Beginner

    We recently looked at 11 Quick Tips for Securing Your WordPress Site, which included some easy, but essential tips for the security of your WordPress blog....

  6. 11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site

    11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site

    Tutorial Beginner

    WordPress is the most used open-source platform nowadays for any type of websites: whether it is blog, CMS or any other custom solution. WordPress is...

  7. How to Sync A Local & Remote WordPress Blog Using Version Control

    How to Sync A Local & Remote WordPress Blog Using Version Control

    Tutorial Beginner

    Ever wondered how you might use Version Control with WordPress? If you prefer to work on your WordPress projects locally but have to get them to sync...

  8. Getting Real-Time With Pusher

    Getting Real-Time With Pusher

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Do you want to spice up your web applications by making them real-time — but don't want to create new infrastructures for the sole purpose of getting web...

  9. 10 Steps to Securing Your WordPress Installation

    10 Steps to Securing Your WordPress Installation

    Tutorial Beginner

    WordPress is open source which means that everyone, including hackers with a malicious intent, can scour the source code looking for holes in its security....

  10. Working With Changing, Cacheable Data? WP-Transients Has Got Your Back!

    Working With Changing, Cacheable Data? WP-Transients Has Got Your Back!

    Tutorial Beginner

    Changing data is ever present in a WordPress-powered site. Be it a new post, an added comment, or an updated tweet for the front page, the status of a blog...

  11. Migrating WordPress Across Hosts, Servers, and URLs

    Migrating WordPress Across Hosts, Servers, and URLs

    Tutorial Beginner

    Today, we are going to take a beginner's approach to moving your WordPress blog to a new host/server or even changing its address (URL). So if you are...

  12. Migrating a WordPress Site From a Local Server to Production

    Migrating a WordPress Site From a Local Server to Production

    Tutorial Beginner

    Integral to any WordPress developer's arsenal is the local server. In this tutorial, I want to walk you all the way from installing a local server to...