ROOT Becomes Canada’s First Datacenter To Accept Bitcoins

As I said earlier, Bitcoin is really making moves in the technology field – as it should considering the tech behind it. Doing my own developments with Bitcoin and the BitPay API I get pretty excited as more and more technology companies become accepting of Bitcoin – as evidence by my post regarding my joy […]

75% Off Coupon for iPage

iPage has launched a brand new coupon code for the month of September 2014 good for 75% off. This sale brings the usual iPage price of $9.99/mo down to just $1.68/mo! Simply use coupon code [coupon code=”iPage ONSALE” /] during your checkout process. Take note that iPage only supports yearly payment options, and with that said […]

Google Apps for Business Becomes Google Apps for Work

Those of us who work closely with Google products have become familiar with referring to the Google Apps suite for businesses as just that: Google Apps for Business – however as of this week all that has changed. Google Apps for Business has now become Google Apps for Work – and if you listen to the reasoning […]

September 2014 Coupon Codes for HostPapa

HostPapa has been around for quiet a while now streaming to provide every customer with a fully-featured hosting package, backed by top customer service and powered by renewable green energy. For the month of September 2014 they have released a series of awesome new coupon codes good for discounts on shared hosting and VPS platforms. 10% off […]

Apache Begins To Accept Bitcoin Donations

I haven’t really mentioned Bitcoin or any crypto currency on here yet however I am actively working on several developments featuring the BitPay API, and there are plans to write up a few tutorials regarding it aswell. With that said I myself am extremely interested in Bitcoin and the possibilities it has – so it’s […]

Why Did My Google Homepage Downgrade?

Did you notice lately that your Google homepage seems to have reverted back to the old black/grey navigation bar design? Google first changed to this design back in June of 2011 and since then has upgraded to a cleaner navigational design. The current Google look and functionality relies on the user having an up-to-date modern […]

A Year With Rackspace

[box type=”info” align=”aligncenter” class=”” width=”100%”]First let’s get something out of the way here. I have been a client of Rackspace for roughly 2 years now, and have become a partner with them in November of 2013. With that being said this post is written without any bias, and discusses solely my experiences as a client […]

.COM Domain Name Growth Slows Down

With all of the buzz surrounding the new top level domain names that are being released it’s interesting to take a look at what effect these have had on the volume of registrations for the standard TLD’s. HosterStats.com publishes reports on this data and the monthly growth figures for .COM show that the TLD’s growth […]

MSN Messenger Sends It’s Final Message on October 2014

It seems that more and more of the technology that I grew up with is on it’s way out lately. Just a few hours ago I wrote about the official retirement of Google’s Web Search API; earlier on at the end of 2013 Winamp closed it’s doors; and now I’m writing to tell you that MSN Messenger, […]

Bing Explains Their Stance on Web Spam

Bing has published a new blog post that I believe is a must-read for any webmaster or SEO’r. Titled Web Spam Filtering the post goes into detail about what web spam is, how it works, and what Bing is doing about it. Bing actually takes a very interesting methodology to understanding and fighting web spam […]

Goodbye Google Authorship

Just a few months ago we bid farewell to Google’s Authorship Images from the search results, and with the new month of September we now bid adieu to Google displaying any Authorship data within their search results. Google’s authorship support page, says simply, “Authorship markup is no longer supported in Web search,” and encourages webmasters to […]

PHP NG Enabled On All Rapid Purple Hosting Servers

Since I was already working on the PHP configurations for Rapid Purple Hosting servers, and since PHP NG has shown some tremendous performance gains, It seemed appropriate to enable it for developer use across all Rapid Purple Hosting servers. If you’ve never heard of PHP NG before, PHP NG was first introduced in May, 2014 […]

PHP 5.6.0 Released & Installed on Rapid Purple Hosting Servers

Just before the weekend the PHP team announced the official release of PHP 5.6.0. The new version brings about a slew of awesome new features with it, and some of you have already taken advantage of them through the early installs of bugfix versions of PHP 5.6.0 on the Rapid Purple Hosting servers. This install […]

Twitter Analytics is Here for Everyone!

Its been a quiet weekend here at the Rapid Purple blog as we all celebrated Labor Day – however with that said these past few days have also been extremely busy in the tech world. For starters Twitter announced the launch of Twitter analytics for all Twitter users. Something that was previously reserved for advertisers or […]

Invalid SSL Certificates Will Still Provide Google Ranking Boost

Earlier on this month Google announced that SSL-secured websites will receive a small ranking boost. Since then I have even converted the majority of Rapid Purple to run over an HTTPS connection. If you’ve been going through the conversion process yourself lately here’s a bit of news that Barry Schwartz found out which might make your […]