Ryan Frankel, Author at HostingAdvice.com

About The Author

Ryan began developing websites in the late '90s and has personally tested just about every web host and cloud platform worth trying on the market today. With a masters degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida, he leverages his extensive knowledge of hardware, software, and their engineering relationship to inform HostingAdvice readers of the technical implications of their hosting choices. Ryan's subject matter expertise includes, but is not limited to, WordPress, cloud infrastructure management, product UI/UX design, and popular web development languages such as JavaScript and PHP.

Latest Posts

47 posts written/edited to date

5 Best CBD Hosting Providers (Feb. 2024)

Will Any Hosting Provider Host My CBD Site?

CBD, or cannabidiol, is a compound found in the cannabis plant that has been gaining popularity in recent years for its potential health benefits. With the... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

12/13/2022

Symantec’s Michael Klieman Talks "Encryption Everywhere" — How New Freemium Service Provides Security Without Sacrificing Speed

Security and Speed: Hallmarks Of Symantec's Encryption Everywhere

97% of websites have no basic security in place, leaving criminals with free reign on your personal information, which can lead to potential financial ruin.... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

9/8/2016

"PHP Memory Limit" — How to Increase Your RAM

How to Increase Your PHP Memory Limit

Sometimes while in development or production, we find that our software uses more memory than we ever expected. To keep things under control, PHP has default memory... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

8/31/2016

MySQL <em>ALTER TABLE</em> Commands: How to Add, Delete, & Change Columns

How to Add, Delete, & Change Columns with MySQL Alter Table

MySQL (and MariaDB) allows you to change the structure of tables with the ALTER TABLE SQL command. Using the command, you can easily change the name of your table... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

8/12/2016

JavaScript MD5 Library (Plus the Perks, Uses, and Examples)

How to Use an MD5 Library in JavaScript

MD5 libraries are often required by JavaScript developers, on either the client or server side, to verify file data. By far, the most popular library is the... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

8/3/2016

13 Best WordPress Website Builder Options (Feb. 2024)

13 Best WordPress Website Builder Options

A WordPress website builder sounds like the best of both worlds, combining the world’s most popular content management system with ultra-simple, drag-and-drop web... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

6/9/2016

How Incapsula Protects Your Site Against DDoS Attacks While Boosting Performance — Progressive Challenges, CDN, & Custom Software

Incapsula: DDoS Defense & CDN Speed Boosting

No one is immune to the havoc that follows a Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack — that helplessness that you feel immediately after a hit as you watch your... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

5/13/2016

Thoroughly Impressed By DreamHost: How We Launched, Scaled, & Tested an Infrastructure Using DreamCompute

DreamHost Part 2: Our Team's Testing of DreamCompute

Every developer and DevOps master dreams of having simple, fine-grained control of their environment with the ability to scale up and down at will and a defined... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

5/10/2016

The WHIR Networking Events Return — 11 New Chances to Create & Foster Lasting Business Relationships in Hosting

Why Attend The WHIR Networking Events 2016

It’s that time of year again — the WHIR Networking Events will soon make their way across the US, Europe, and Brazil (new!), allowing hosting and cloud... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

1/5/2016

How to Delete a Wix Site (Feb. 2024)

How to Delete My Wix Site

Learning how to delete a Wix site is not nearly as complicated as you probably fear. That being said, there are lots of components you may not have thought of. Even... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

11/19/2015

"AWS S3” Pricing (Calculator & Sample Plan)

AWS S3 Pricing (Calculator & Sample Storage Configuration)

In this article, we’ll focus on the cost of the AWS S3 storage solution. (Hint: It’s CHEAP!) There are basically three factors that determine the total cost of using... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

8/11/2015

Akamai and Trustwave™ — 3 Factors Driving the Growing Need for Vulnerability Monitoring & DDoS Protection

Akamai and Trustwave™ — 3 Factors Drive the Rising Need for DDoS Threat Monitoring

Since 1998, Akamai has engineered performance and security solutions, now serving up two trillion Internet interactions daily. With the rising scale of DDoS... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

6/29/2015

CodeGuard — CEO David Moeller Gives Us a Look at Their Cutting-Edge Website Backup & Restore Technology

CodeGuard CEO Gives Us an Inside Look at Their Cutting-Edge Site Backup & Restore Technology

CodeGuard is a time-saving and precise automated backup solution, featuring differential backups and full-site recovery. No other service offers this level... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

6/3/2015

How to Create a WordPress Page Template

Blogging 101: How to Create a WordPress Page Template

Creating a page template in WordPress is actually quite simple. This guide assumes you understand the basics of creating a Theme in WordPress and have your directory... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

5/14/2015

5 Basic Tips to Using Regular Expressions (RegEx) in Varnish

5 Basic Tips to Using Regular Expressions (RegEx) in Varnish

Even though Varnish is an extremely popular tool out of the box, you will quickly find you will need to customize it for the intricacies of your site. Whether it be... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

4/22/2015

HostingAdvice.com Launches Mobile Version of <strike>Articles and Reviews</strike> our ENTIRE SITE!

HostingAdvice.com Launches Mobile Version of Articles and Reviews our ENTIRE SITE!

Update: As of 12:21 p.m. EST on April 20, 2015, we have launched the mobile version of our articles and reviews! The Latest Update: As of 4:08 p.m. EST on May 28,... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

4/17/2015

How WPEngine Brings Blazing Speed to 300,000+ Websites

How WPEngine Brings Blazing Speed to 300,000+ Websites

In a world where milliseconds matter, WPEngine’s unmatched technology delivers WordPress sites at incredible speeds with incredible value. By bringing high... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

3/16/2015

How to Install Gearman on Ubuntu 14.04

Install Gearman on Ubuntu 14.04 in 5 Simple Steps

Similar to our guide on installing Gearman on Ubuntu 12.04, this guide will get you all set up and running with Gearman on Ubuntu 14.04. In case you don’t know,... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

2/6/2015

7 Easy Steps to Install Go (Golang) on Ubuntu

Install Go (Golang) on Ubuntu — In Just 7 Simple Steps!

Installing Go (Golang) can be tricky on Ubuntu. The repositories for versions 12.04 and 14.04 are dated and install an older version of Go. Luckily, there is a tool... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

1/15/2015

JavaScript: is number

JavaScript: is number

Deciding whether something is a number in JavaScript should be a straightforward type check (i.e., using the isNaN() function), but, as it turns out, it is a bit... read more »

By: Ryan Frankel

12/29/2014

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