Articles by Elena

The most used scripting language is PHP. It’s rapidly evolving and after more than ten years without a significant upgrade to it, the scripting language introduced it’s 7.0 version. PHP 7 made a debut at the end of 2015.…

Laravel is supported actively and developed constantly. It’s an open source project which made the first appearance about seven years ago in the late spring of 2011 to be precise. From that point forward, the framework has managed to make its name to stand out amongst the greatest PHP frameworks for web apps, implementing the well known architectural pattern of the Model View Controller (MVC), in addition to being based on Symfony.…

If you’ve been to WordCamp once or twice, or maybe you are actively following the WordPress community, chances are you already are aware of the existence of something called “WP CLI.”…

They say you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep. All of you who are true fans of FastComet, know the whole story behind the brand. Coming from system administration services for private and business individuals to public cloud hosting services, we have walked a long way to come to the point where we can assure our clients that their sites would perform much better under all circumstances.…

Accessibility was a hot topic at WordCamp Europe 2018. It was a reminder to all of us that our websites – including our content – shouldn’t just be about looking and sounding beautiful.…

In the summer of 2013, a small developer team launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a new kind of blogging and publishing platform. Based on Node.js and powered by the Express framework it was built as an alternative to feature-packed content management systems like WordPress and Joomla.…

Databases are an essential piece of your website. They are essentially data table collections that hold tremendous amounts of information about your website like all the posts, comments, pages, menus, any kind of text data, plugin and theme settings, which content is associated with which page, eCommerce order details, users and user capabilities, and much more.…

Last week, seven of our FastComet members, including thousands of WordPress community members and I have gathered for the WordCamp Europe, and it has been an absolute blast! Just like it is every year.…

Do you love the Node.js JavaScript platform for building scalable browser and server applications? As an application programmer, it is difficult not to love JavaScript, right? Node continues to remain a leader in the asynchronous framework market.…

Privacy is on everyone’s mind and in everyone’s inbox thanks to GDPR going into effect this month. Over the last few weeks, you’ve no doubt been getting a myriad of spam from anyone who’s ever collected your personal information trumpeting their new privacy policies.…

Being a customer-focused and user experience-oriented company means that we are constantly working on improving our hosting solutions to keep them at the forefront of performance. In early 2017 FastComet impressed the web hosting industry by introducing the SpeedUp RocketBooster hosting plan at a fraction of the cost of a dedicated server, delivering a high-performance product at an unbeatable price.…