Why oh why oh why do websites waste potential traffic? We’ve seen so many sites that either not understand, or plainly disregard either the www. or non-www. records of their websites.
The example that has just sprung to mind is the Trafford Centre in Manchester. The www. record works but the non-www. record does not. Why? [...]

Something we’ve been playing with for a while… global gzip / deflate compression on apache servers. Naturally you can do this in php or via .htaccess but why not do it globally from the apache configuration?
Decided to give it a whirl on some of our own dedicated servers the other day.
Dowsides:

Increases CPU load
Increases CPU load
Increases [...]

These things come in cycles but it seems as if the dreaded FTP hackers are back. Inserting malware in the form of hidden iframes, unescaped javascript into people’s sites via their own FTP details. No brute force, no server exploits, just logging in as the owner and adding the details to the bottom of (usually) [...]