Green Web Hosting Blog

A smattering of tips, thoughts on the tao, and tweet-able tickles

Cool vi Tips

vi is a venerable text editor that is great for making quick fixes to files when you are in the command line on the server. Read more

Security Tips

Make sure your web site is protected from hackers and backed up. Even if you think you have nothing valuable on your site, you need to protect yourself. Read why… Read more

Clear browser cache

Regular refresh doesn't work, try clearing the browser cache! Read more

Download your full site backups with SCP command

For shell users, this is a best way to download really really large files from the server and avoid FTP timeouts. Read more

Certificate error sending and/or receiving email

If your email client settings are configured for SSL, you may get a certificate related error. Read more

Do you offer ASP or ColdFusion Hosting?

No, sorry we don't. But we can recommend another green host! Read more

How to Upload WordPress Themes

Follow these step-by-step instructions to learn how to use the File Manager in your cPanel to upload a new WordPress theme for your web site. Read more

Firefox 3 SSL Blues

FIrefox 3 is hard on self-signed and community driven SSL certificates. Check out these links to explanations of why. Read more

What's so Great About WordPress?

Sustainable Websites founder Ivan Storck will be on a live podcast tomorrow at 1pm PST. Call in with your WordPress questions! Read more

SEO Secrets for Online Retailers

A great slideshow on important concepts in search engine optimization (SEO).

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