Sucuri Security released a public announcement on October 8th regarding a large scale attack which could leave your blog at risk of hackers gaining unauthorized access. To summarize, attackers are taking advantage of a vulnerability in WordPress’s XML-RPC system.multicall method which effectively allows them to issue hundreds of login attempts with a single request. To…
At POP, we’re all about ridding you of the agonizing grunt work involved with establishing yourself online. If you’ve tried us out before, you’re already aware of non-invasive signup process that will get you online in less time than it takes to brew yourself coffee. If we’re new to you, POP is the most hassle-free…
We’ve had a wonderful ride with Tumblr this past year. It’s a great service when you’re getting off the ground and want a no frills solution to keeping your customers informed. The time has come where we needed to cut the strings and evolve our blog just as we did with our recent 2014 site…
We’re happy to announce that we’ve unleashed our custom rolled AB testing tool, Winston, to the masses. While we’re currently only using it in our development and test environments, we’re satisfied with it’s current alpha stability enough to let others know they can dig in and have at it. With all of the options…
At POP, we’re always on the hunt for cleaner solutions to existing problems. Part of our recent website redesign efforts included new email messaging and design. As a seasoned developer, I’ve experienced the hell that is email templating dozens of times over. The overarching problem is the fragmentation of how each mobile, web, and desktop…
We’re truly trying to change how the world sees building websites at POP. There’s no reason anybody should have to understand technical jargon in order to put a beautiful looking website online. This is why our team built a Simple DNS tool which takes the pain out of pointing a domain name at your website….
At POP, our site is entirely API driven. We separated our frontend codebase from our backend API in it’s entirety. The two sites are even in separate repositories. There are several reasons we decided to use this architecture which I’ll cover below. Openness and Future Consumer Availability We had decided that a day will likely…
One recurring feature request we’ve seen since launching POP has been the ability for you to update your domain’s name servers. We’re happy to announce that we’ve just released a new DNS Nameserver Management page allowing you to update your name servers at will. For those of you that have already had your name servers…
We are very excited to be a sponsor of NodeKnocket 2013. We love node.js almost as much as we love making life easier for entrepreneurs that need to get their ideas online fast. For NKO teams, here is an outline of how to setup your DNS records to point your domain name at your Joyent…
When we started developing POP, we decided that we wanted metrics to help drive important decisions. Because of this, we knew that we had to start capturing metrics long before we had any sizable user base. Our data is the only thing that would allow us to quantitatively gauge the success and failure of new…
