Today marks the one year anniversary of the start of the award-winning reporting that has revealed how the National Security Agency (NSA) was secretly invading the privacy of hundreds of millions of innocent people. Federal government senior officials lied and misled Congress, the courts, and the public, about the scope of NSA’s mass surveillance operations […]
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Live Chat Integrated Into Hosting Control Panel
In an effort to simplify the life of our shared hosting clients who have reached their limits within their existing hosting plan I have integrated a LiveChat functionality into the Hespia control panel we utilize here at Rapid Purple. You will notice it appear in the lower right corner of the screen whenever you access any of […]
WP/BP Project for AllAPNotes
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on a new WordPress/Buddypress project for AllAPNotes.com – a sister site of USHistoryAPNotes.com. The goal here was to build a single, modern, user-friendly portal where visitors and members can easily browse through all of the various content and interact with fellow students. With the recent […]
PDF Eraser Added to Free Webmaster Resources Directory
If you’ve been paying attention you probably noticed that I have been trying my best to keep the Free Webmaster Resources Directory updated with new listings. Earlier this month I added PlainEdit.NET and Sublime Text to the directory; and today I would like to introduce you all to yet another new addition to the Rapid […]
PlainEdit.NET & Sublime Text Added to Free Webmaster Resources Directory
These days it’s rare that a new text/code editor comes out that brings anything remotely new or exciting to the table. There are already plenty of code editors and Notepad replacements out …
Get Free Basic WordPress Assistance via Google+ Helpouts
For those of you following any of the Rapid Purple social channels you’ve most likely seen my teaser posts talking about my upcoming Google+ Helpout for Basic Wordpress Assistance.
Redesigned PhotoDH Website Launched
I had teased about the new PhotoDH website a few days ago over on the Rapid Purple Facebook page; and today I am happy to announce it’s finally live! PhotoDH, ran by Dzemo Halilovic, first came to me with a Flash based website that was put together many, many years ago. Back when Flash was the […]
Social Signals Checker Tool Launched
Social signals as we know them have been all the rage in the SEO sphere in the past couple of years. In fact ever since Danny Sullivan first wrote a thought-provoking article on social signals and their impact on SEO way back in December of 2010 social signals have been at the tip of every […]
Launch Of New BRC Day Spa Website
The new BRC Day Spa website has been launched! Some of you may have caught a glimpse of the new BRC Day Spa website on Facebook towards the end of last year, and the look and feel has stayed much the same throughout it’s completion. Post by Rapid Purple. Done in WordPress and with a […]
GI Money Budget Calculator
I had written this Javascript based budget calculator for GI Money Magazine a while back and honestly completely forgot to mention it here. For those of you unfamiliar with GI Money Magazine, GI Money is a brand dedicated to provide high-level educational media for service members and their families. GI Money launched in 2010 as an […]
Free Search Engine Submission Fixed
It was brought to my attention that the form to request a free search engine submission was no longer properly validating website addresses and as such not allowing submissions to go through. Submitting your website or blog to various search engines is key to getting your website noticed by all the different crawlers out there; however with so […]
2 Simple, Useful & Free Webmaster Programs
I haven’t really added much new listings to our free webmaster resources directory lately – so today I wanted to bring you 2 amazingly useful and free programs. PDFFill as a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro, depending on the functions you need; and Rankaware which essentially brings our online SEO Panel to your desktop allowing […]
ModSecurity Enabled On All Hosting Accounts
A few months back I had went ahead and setup ModSecurity on all of our hosting servers. Over the past months I have been doing some monitoring and tweaking of the settings to try to create the perfect environment for your average webmaster, and your seasoned developer. I’m happy to announced that we now have the ModSecurity […]
Rapid Purple Officially Partnered with Rackspace
[frame align=”right”][/frame]Following a recent meeting at RubyConf 2013, I am proud to announce that Rapid Purple has officially joined the Rackspace® Partner Network in an effort to provide a portfolio of services aimed towards those clients who are looking for something more than the usual hosting platform. Rackspace is a leading provider of hybrid clouds, which enable businesses […]
PHP Updates for Rapid Purple Hosting Clients
I have always tried my best to create a development friendly environment with the Rapid Purple Hosting services – and this means keeping up to date with the latest stable platforms. With that said I have added the latest stable PHP releases to your control panel. You can now use the current stable version – […]
osCommerce Updated to 2.3.3 in Hosting App Installer
osCommerce has been actively released new versions of their popular ecommerce platform – currently at 3.3.4 which came out September 26, 2013. While all plugin updates are made to fully support 3.3.4 – I went ahead and updated the Elefante App Installer featured with all the Rapid Purple Hosting plans to osCommerce 2.3.3. This way […]
Launch of Innovative Standard
Innovative Standard Inc. is the realization of a dream 10 years in the making – or so starts off their introductory about page. Innovative Standard strives to be the standard in niche eCommerce by maintaining a focus on more than just the profit margin. Niche markets require a true knowledge of the product. Customers want more than […]
Joomla 3.0 Added to Our 1-Click App Installer
I have recently updated the Joomla version in our 1-click App Installer to the latest one available – Joomla 3.0. While I will still offer older versions in the Installer as well, I highly recommend that you use Joomla 3.0 as it represents a significant improvement over older versions. All current Rapid Purple hosting clients will automatically […]
ELLANA, Inc. Website Updated
Incorporated in 1998, ELLANA, Inc. is a certified Woman-owned Business Enterprise (WBE) and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) construction consultant firm that provides four core services consisting of cost management, project controls, owner representation and professional training services to a wide range of A/E/C industry clients. In-fact they are one of a small handful of firms who handle […]
PHP 5.5 and PHP 5.4.15 Available for Hosting Users
I have recently added PHP 5.5 as an option in the Hepsia Control Panel for all Rapid Purple Hosting users. It was released just a few days ago and the new version offers lots of new features. Here is a quick overview of the new features offered by PHP 5.5: generators and coroutines; the ‘finally’ keyword; a […]