Alexa is an icon. Its history spans nearly two decades, with millions of subscribers joining us along the way. Alexa has long been the go-to source to divine the intrinsic and relative value of any website. I joined Alexa in August of 2013 and took over as the company’s CEO Continue Reading

The sharing economy is showing no signs of abating, with anything from cars and apartment rooms to DIY tools and talent being increasingly shared on a myriad of online brokering services that have mushroomed in recent years. Just as you thought we’ve exhausted all that can be shared, a month-old Continue Reading

    In the past, in carefully planned large Enterprise POWER7 / POWER7+ Servers and their LPARs, we end up with near zero unused memory = which is a good thing.  But then we had problems adding a further high speed adapters to a the machine or LPARs.  This was due Continue Reading

Search Engine Optimization or “SEO” is the process of designing your website and marketing strategy to get high quality, un-paid traffic from Search Engines to your website. Several years ago, the term “SEO” conjured up an image of shady characters working in dimly lit back rooms to “trick” search engines Continue Reading

SUMMARY cPanel, Inc. has released EasyApache 3.28.1 with PHP versions 5.4.36 and 5.5.20. This release addresses vulnerabilities related to CVE-2014-8142 by fixing a bug in the Core module. We strongly encourage all PHP 5.4 users to upgrade to version 5.4.36 and all PHP 5.5 users to upgrade to version 5.5.20. Continue Reading

Kyoto Tycoon is a distributed key-value store written by FAL Labs, and it is used extensively at CloudFlare. Like many popular key-value stores, Kyoto Tycoon uses timestamp-based replication to ensure eventual consistency and guarantee ordering. Kyoto Tycoon is an open source project, and in the spirit of the holidays, we’re Continue Reading

In the past, carefully planned large POWER7 / POWER7+ Servers and their LPARs, we end up with near zero unused memory = which is a good thing but then we had problems adding a further high speed adapter to a LPAR.  This was due to failing to find enough memory Continue Reading

The third quarter of 2014 saw market leader Samsung lose its lead drastically to Chinese smartphone makers Huawei and Xiaomi, according to a report by analyst firm Gartner. Samsung shaved 7.7 percentage points to retain a 24.4 per cent share of the market in the quarter as compared to a year Continue Reading

Version 4.1 of WordPress, named “Dinah” in honor of jazz singer Dinah Washington, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in WordPress 4.1 help you focus on your writing, and the new default theme lets you show it off in style. Introducing Twenty Fifteen Our newest Continue Reading