Archives for 2008

Quarkbase : Everything about a Website

September 14, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib 2 Comments

I am pretty impressed by a link that my business partner Greg sent me this morning to a website called Quarkbase. Quarkbase is a free tool that allows you to find out complete information about a website. It is a mashup of over 30 data sources and many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various […]

Thoughts on Social Networks

September 12, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

Besides being a partner, co-founder, web developer, and consultant at Pleth Networks, LLC, I have also found myself trying on the hat of “social networking evangelist” as of late. I feel that it is my responsibility to absorb as much knowledge as I can about the “going trends” that are out there today in order […]

My 2 Favorite News Portals

September 12, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

I was talking to a friend today about how political the cable news networks have become as of late (this is a another blog post that I will probably just keep to myself). I was telling him how I used to keep the television in my office on web developer by trade I immediately pick […]

Twitter + RSS + MODx

September 12, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

My business partner Stephen and I have been encouraging our other partner Greg to branch out and try some of the popular social networking tools that are out there today like Twitter and he has offered up tons of resistance, it’s been almost comical. I knew that we almost had him teetering on the edge […]

Houston Data Center

September 12, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib 1 Comment

As some of you might be aware, we (Pleth Networks, LLC) have a redundant backup datacenter located in Houston, Texas. This is not our primary datacenter, our primary NOC is located in Dallas, Texas. Our RDP Backup Solution runs from the Houston datacenter. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the hosting industry and […]

WordPress Automatic Upgrade

September 12, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

I have several clients running WordPress these days, it’s probably my favorite CMS on the scene for a lot of reasons. Here’s one more reason why I love WordPress: The All-New WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin. When I first read about this plugin I was a little skeptical, especially since the last WordPress Upgrade broke the […]