


WordPress vs Drupal is like Word vs Excel
Seems like every day this month I've answered the same question: Why should I use Drupal instead of WordPress? And this is the answer I've come up with. They are entirely different applications, about as different as Microsoft Word is from Microsoft Excel.

Freelock mail server upgrade
To our clients using our email hosting:
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Yesterday we turned on a shiny brand new mail server.

Don't Play Whack-a-mole on Prod!
If you’re making improvements to your sites, even as simple as pushing updates, you’re going to be changing things around. Inevitably, you’ll break something. Wouldn’t you like to find that out before the production site goes down from the “improvements”?

Why have a technology decision-making process?
In short, choosing a particular technology allows us to:
-
Make a decision once and leverage the results over and over
-
Increase profitability
-
Increase developer satisfaction

Deployment and release strategies
When you build a new website, going live is relatively easy. You get ahold of a domain name, point it at a webhost, put the website code there, and you're up and running!
After a site is live, it gets a lot more complicated.

Layout Builders versus Content Management - are you making this mistake?
Glitzy websites are all the rage these days. Everybody seems to be looking for easy ways to create multimedia-rich pages with ease.

Is your host a single point of failure?
Just ran across a sad story where Digital Ocean is accused of killing a startup:

Assessment of May 8 Drupal Security update SA-CORE-2019-007
New versions of Drupal core dropped today, to fix a file handling issue.
After assessing the patches, statements, and risks associated with this update, we have decided this is an important update to apply, but not urgent for most of the sites we manage.

Do you REALLY know the firm you're partnering with? Get to know Freelock!
How much do you know about the firm you're partnering with for web development and DevOps? Watch our quick video to get to know our founder John Locke better!

Freelock Earns Top Recognition on Clutch!
At Freelock, we’re in the business of building websites that make your business better.

What's up on Nerd Mountain? Enterprise Dev Ops for Everybody
Go ahead... Make My Changes in Prod
You thought I was going full "Dirty Harry" there, didn't ya? It's okay, I kinda wanted to as well. You can't go wrong with Clint Eastwood.