It was in June 2005 I had my first major run-in with social media. Slashdot had picked up a controversial story I had just written and it was flung onto the front page.
Though it was a huge success in terms of getting attention and new readers to my site, it was a complete disaster for [...]

Today Who Is Hosting This has a brand-new look. So we thought it’d be fun to look at how the site has developed over the last few years.
2007: Site Launches
Site launched summer 2007 by Gordan Orlic and Stan Sredl. Stan now blogs at Mashable, while Gordan runs many Croatian websites, like

Pop Quiz: How fast does your site load?
Does it load in under ten seconds? What about five? Does it make it there in two? One?
The answer is obviously going to be dependent on many different variables including the time of day, who is looking at the site, where they are located and how good [...]

WordPress has a very bad reputation when it comes to taxing a server. It’s known for killing servers under high load, especially without caching, and at times being a resource hog.
However, running a blog, with any application, is far from the most taxing thing you can do to your server. If you are really [...]