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The episode is finally live!
I had the honor of joining Trisha Hershberger and Katers from You Fight Like A Girl on a Youtuber themed round of Family Feud for Buzzr! Easily one of the most exciting and nerve-wracking experiences of my life.
Did we persevere? Did we reign supreme? Check out our episode below!
Yesterday was an interesting day…
I was planning on wrapping up a few videos, maybe doing a live hangout, and I had some articles I wanted to write. Trying to log into the site, I could barely type a handful of words into WordPress without getting kicked off the server.
See, when you host a site through a company like Bluehost, they’ll set aside a certain amount of server power for you. Cross that threshold and the server will throttle your site. When I moved SomeGadgetGuy over to Bluehost, it was kind of an emergency maneuver. I never really took the time to properly optimize this site. Surprisingly even my plain, old, white-backgrounded theme was a humongous resource hog.
As the site has grown in popularity, all of that inefficient code has exponentially exacerbated those throttling issues.
Continue reading “SomeGadgetGuy 2.0 – Faster, Stronger, Better”