adBrite Shutting Down

Dear adBrite Publisher,

Over the last few weeks, adBrite and its management have been evaluating the go-forward plan for the business. Given market conditions and certain financial liabilities, in working with our lenders, we have decided to cease operations on Feb 1, 2013.

This is a difficult decision for all of us at adBrite. However, after much deliberation this seems to be the best course of action despite the impact it will have on all the employees, clients and partners who helped build this business. There will be a team in place as needed to assist with winding down.
Thank you for being part of the adBrite community.

The adBrite Team

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WordPress own version of Apache.

With the incredible growth that WordPress has seen, I am predicting it is only a matter of time before WordPress has its own version of Apache, along with some type of database. (maybe custom SQLite)

WordPress will evolve beyond just software running on web server or platform. It will become the web server and platform in one.

Fancy way to describe a screw up

As you are aware, —— is working toward migrating services from its existing data center to a new data center facility. These changes will allow us to operate with an improved hardware infrastructure. During the originally scheduled date (—– –th), —— encountered some technical issues. Due to these issues, we made the decision to roll back all migration activities at that time. We have taken an extensive look at the issues that occurred, and are making every effort to prevent these going forward. We have rescheduled the migration activities, and are writing to inform you of the new date and time as well as the expected impacts.

Translation: We screwed up the first time, we think we fixed it, so we are going to try this again. :)

GoDaddy Certificate Seal Spam

I noticed a Go Daddy SSL Certificate seal on a website and below the seal it says “Fax to Email”, this seems odd.. The link is from GoDaddy trying to sell a fax thru email plan. That is one way to gain links… I suspect most users of these “seals” don’t even know they are really placing a links for GoDaddy all over their site. Read more »