Introducing a cleaner inbox

A few interesting facts behind your inbox:  Over 98% of all emails zipping around the web are SPAM.  Of the remaining email,only 1 in 7 are from people,the rest are automated messages like newsletters,Facebook updates and the like.  Keeping your inbox clean has been an uphill battle,and each year the [...read more]

Pretty permalinks for your WordPress site

Awhile back,  I posted about our support for “Almost Pretty”  permalinks for your WordPress site on our network.   Today,  I’m happy to announce that we now support “Pretty”  permalinks on your Word Press site.  When you host with PepperStation,  your website is supported by a number of servers behind the scenes.  Recent upgrades [...read more]

Making sure your email reaches the inbox

I’m happy to announce that we’ve made some improvements to our email system that will help your emails reach the inbox.

Did you know that on average 20% of legitimate emails never reach the inbox?  Frustrating,  I know.  Recently,  we partnered with an email sending service provider to help us make sure that your emails [...read more]

Updated PHP and MySQL services

Just a quick service update to let you know that we have updated our PHP and MySQL servers.

PHP version is now 5.3.6

MySQL version is now 5.1.52

Furthermore,  your MySQL databases are now kept on Amazon’s EBS,  which basically means that data durability is better and the chance of a single drive [...read more]

“Almost Pretty”permalinks for your WordPress blog

 

UPDATE:   We now support “Pretty”permalinks for your WordPress website. See:  Pretty permalinks for your WordPress site

 

Permalinks are the links you can share with others and the search engines for your blog posts.  From a search engine performance point of view,links to your site or blog that contain keywords relevant to [...read more]

Running reports in Spirit’s Reports tab

There are two types of reports you can run in the Reports Tab;Product reports and Customer reports. Product Sales allows you to generate a report based on the search of 4 product attributes:Product name:tshirt_red (this is the product name saved in Spirit at the time the product is created) Product id:tshirt006 [...read more]