Author: sroot
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Margins and Markups: how to handle multiple discounts/rebates
Following on from an old blog post about Margins and markups What everyone in business needs to know a reader posted this question in the comments If you’re not sure how to calculate margins, read that first. Hi, how do you do multiple rebates % to give a true value of what the total discount…
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Blog traffic
According to cloudflare, my blog traffic this month. According to google analytics, my blog traffic this month. The difference? a) Cloudflare is counting requests to my server (each image, each file, each style sheet) whereas Google Analytics is joining requests from the same visitor into a session. b) Hackers don’t always ask for a page,…
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Upgrading my server to PHP7 broke wordpress admin interface (cloudflare)
wp-cli, a command line interface for WordPress, just saved me a big headache. It all began when I updated my server to the latest ubuntu LTS. That removed PHP5 support and replaced it with PHP7. That meant several of my sites stopped working as the nginx configuration had to change. With that done I thought…