Rob Woodgate aMember makes it simple to sell digital products and subscriptions worldwide, and has a variety of tax modules to suit your home tax jurisdiction and intended audience. With many aMember sites selling internationally, it’s pretty common to see pricing in US Dollars (USD), even if the business is located outside the USA. For example, my … Read more
aMember makes it simple to sell digital products and subscriptions worldwide, but selling to European Union countries is a major tax accounting nightmare. In fact, according to official EU Parliament data, the cost of VAT compliance for small businesses (SMEs) is about US $16,000 (EUR15,000) PER YEAR! In this blog, I’m going to highlight the rules … Read more
Every year, the war on spam escalates, making it harder for legitimate businesses to get email through to their customers too. Gone are the days where you could simply send email from your web server and expect it to land in the inbox. Now, you have to be an expert in email hosting, deliverability and security, as … Read more
I moved my Trust Vega SaaS to a new web host recently, which meant the dedicated server IP address I’d spent the last 6 years nurturing to ensure our excellent email delivery had to change. Until that point, I had never really had to think much about the wisdom of keeping web and email services … Read more
A couple of years ago, I switched our cPanel servers to use the more modern FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM). Although requiring slightly more memory than other PHP FastCGI implementations, the appeal is superior performance, scalability, and security. All was great, apart from one teeny, tiny issue… PHP-FPM would periodically and randomly go 100% CPU and … Read more
As we’ve grown, I’ve started seeing some occasional strange errors when trying to SSH or push to GIT repositories on certain user accounts on our cPanel server. Then today, when switching an account to PHP8, the error locked up SSH entirely, and would only go away when I rolled back to PHP7.4 Turns out, the … Read more