Wordpress is a very nice publishing platform that is very easy to install and use. Unfortunately with its plugin system it can become very bloated and slow. This site uses ghost. It uses node.js. It is much faster than wordpress, but your typical shared web hosting doesn’t support it. This site runs on a small Google cloud compute engine instance. If you can’t/don’t want to use Google cloud and can’t find a hosting provider that will support node.js you can also try hugo. Hugo generates a static site that you can upload to almost any type of server. Read more

The simplest way to reset the DNS cache on your iphone is to switch it to Airplane mode and back. Airplane mode switches of all network connectivity, this has the side effect of clearing the DNS cache.

If you need to get the text from a scanned PDF or Image file you can use the free Optical Character Recognition (OCR) provided by google drive. Learn more at Google Help

This site appeared in Google’s index less than a day after it was set up. Of course nothing was (is) really ready for prime time. If your site isn’t just a vanity site make sure your content is ready before you go live.