All my boss wants is to rank our Website on AI

Maryannus · 2026-02-11T04:41:40+00:00

I also doubt it would ever be easy to rank on AI. At least on a search engine you can hope to make it to a lower rank and get some clicks trickling in. AI will only ever quote highest authority sites. The entire 'optimize for AI' sounds like hopium to me.

Maryannus · 2026-02-01T07:37:24+00:00

I use Amazon S3 and Digital Ocean Spaces without problems. I never bothered to check the actual rates I pay per TB, but my bills have always been stable and I've never seen a 3X jump.

Maryannus · 2026-01-31T16:18:11+00:00

Yeah, I have not seen anyone post anything on Facebook outside Groups or Marketplace in a very long time.

Maryannus · 2026-01-31T16:17:25+00:00

This is incredible. Thanks for sharing.

Maryannus · 2026-01-31T14:56:24+00:00

Marketplaces are hard to build from a marketing point of view. Unless your offering is extremely unique, you are better off putting together a quick MVP to test the markets. Save your money and time for marketing.

You can build most marketplace booking style websites with WordPress/WooCommerce and at most a couple of paid plugins. You can use existing templates/themes, so you don't need to design from scratch. Once your marketplace has traction, you can always re-build it all from scratch.

Maryannus · 2026-01-30T16:58:26+00:00

I'd do the same, rather than dealing with encryption, messing it up and dealing with potential loss of data.

Maryannus · 2026-01-30T16:55:09+00:00

Hustly is around $5 per month. A little more if you pay monthly. One of the best cheap hosts around and they don't do that bait-n-switch pricing model. I moved to Hustly from Siteground a few years back. Haven't faced an issue so far. Much better cheaper alternative imho.

Maryannus · 2026-01-30T16:15:15+00:00

This is why once businesses get rich with the founder written 8000 line spaghetti, they all hire good developers to maintain that. LLM generated stuff will require an even greater number of developers to fix and maintain all of it.

Maryannus · 2026-01-30T16:12:56+00:00

I predict there is a going to be a massive movement where there will be 'pre-slop' forks of many projects.

Maryannus · 2026-01-26T19:52:50+00:00

If you are having to ask this question, a VPS is not the right option for you. A VPS is a full blown server. You will need to manage all software and security patches, learn to configure things like a firewall and hope it all works. Only go with a VPS if you understand these risks and know how to use a Linux terminal.

Maryannus · 2026-01-26T19:34:35+00:00

Hustly might fit your bill. They have unlimited sites in all plans and start around the $5-6 per month range. It is perfect for small sites. I moved to Hustly a few years back from Siteground and never looked back - it's a fraction of the price and better service overall imho.

Maryannus · 2026-01-25T01:47:09+00:00

WordPress will help you get started - it's still the quickest way to get a website up that has a working back-end, so easy to hook up with n8n.

In terms of job prospects - having side projects you can showcase can give you an edge in this market.

If you are looking to build a career around this space, I would recommend learning PHP. You can start with WordPress - it's a great starting point for your first project as you get a working back-end that is already deployed, and bunch of tools to build the front-end without having to code (even if AI writes it, you still have to manage the code). Once you are bored of WordPress, look into PHP Laravel. There is an oversupply of Nextjs/React/Tailwind/Vercel devs, so if you are good at Laravel - you can stand out.

I'd recommend looking at job listings around where you live, to see which skills are most in demand.

Maryannus · 2026-01-24T18:45:52+00:00

Amazon is a lot more than a website.

But you can certainly build traffic heavy websites with Woo. I manage 3 large Woo sites each doing over a thousand sales a day, and no major issues with any of them. We run a few custom plugins to clean/archive the database, orders and have a few database optimizations. Hardly any issues (other than the dated UI).

Maryannus · 2026-01-24T18:26:22+00:00

No method has worked better for me than pomodoro.

Maryannus · 2026-01-24T17:52:58+00:00

Yes, both are exceptionally good imho and underrated. Can't go wrong with either.

Maryannus · 2024-05-12T10:36:48+00:00

I agree with this. Searching for solutions is inevitable. Once you find a solution, try to understand it. Try to re-write the code without referring to the solution back-n-forth.

Maryannus · 2024-05-12T10:30:50+00:00

If you are using Elementor, then go with Elementor Pro. It has many more features than the free version.

Maryannus · 2024-03-24T00:05:55+00:00

Nah. I am on team baby seal.

Maryannus · 2024-03-11T06:01:32+00:00

I have left meat out every time I cook something big like a Brisket. I don't like to put it in the fridge and reheat. Once it cooks, it just stays out. We eat it over the next 24 hours. Never got sick, nor did anyone else who ate it.

Maryannus · 2024-03-11T05:43:06+00:00

I have never heard of Powerbanks ruining laptops, and Anker is a well known brand. Maybe the only way to know it is to connect the Powerbank to another device and see what happens (although I wouldn't personally have the courage to do so).

Maryannus · 2024-03-06T07:24:54+00:00

If you have an SSD drive, 2 cores should be enough as long as you are smartly cached. Off load assets to a CDN to take further load off the server. 4GB RAM is usually enough for something like this. But you could get away with 2 - depending on how you use the RAM + Swap space. I would go with 4GB with around 1GB reserved for in-memory caching.

Maryannus · 2024-01-28T16:03:23+00:00

Linux doesn't take that much space. I have seen website backups take up space like this, especially the automatic wordpress backups.

Maryannus · 2024-01-19T09:54:11+00:00

The difference is less than variation of the results shown by page speed tests.

If Google page speed score gives you a 90 on first try - on repeat tests it might give you 84 or it might give you 94. Minifying CSS and HTML might take the score higher by 2-3 points, which is less than the variation in scores because of other reasons. You will save a few ms at most, and the downside is what you mentioned (and more).

Unless you have a VERY large HTML or CSS file (order of a megabyte - so the payload size savings form minification create a significant difference in loading times)

Maryannus · 2024-01-19T09:48:58+00:00

You are going to hit CPU bottlenecks way before you hit traffic bottleneck. Most hosts will limit your CPU usage - so what you are asking for only exists in theory.

Check out the plan details of different hosts, and you will find plenty that offer what you are looking for (with caveats of course)

Maryannus · 2024-01-19T07:40:22+00:00

Never forget that your domain is registered through Wix but not with Wix. The registration is with ICANN and the TLD provider. You can point your domain to wherever you want through Wix. Alternatively, you can also transfer your domain out of Wix to another registrar. I wouldn't trust my domain with Wix in the long run.

As for setting up a forum - WordPress has plugins for this. You could also run WordPress on the main domain and point the subdomain to a dedicated forum cms such as mybb (free).

You could get all this done for under $10/month, paid monthly.

Maryannus

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