We’ll cover many different parts of web hosting or managed server hosting business in this article.   Quick History: Web Hosting business is not new, it’s been one of the first businesses launched since internet and websites became mainstream. Many web hosting companies power 1000s of websites to this day. You may know some of …

Recently, I had a heated discussion with a Dev Manager/Friend of mine. it just brought back some memories I have about the interview process and expectations managers have. And yes, some of it biased towards whatever the manager thinks the right answer(s) should be. Even if they tell you there is no right/wrong answer 🙂 I’ve …

In a way, ZoomAdmin would be competing with shared hosting providers, because they usually give the user a web interface of some sort, i.e. cPanel, so that the users can easily create their websites and adjust their settings, even though, you may still have to be technical to use these tools. Godaddy has built their …

So it’s been around 11 months or so since we started working on ZoomAdmin, a SaaS based product that’s going to make it super easy to manage your servers and configure the software you use on them with ease. It’ll also make it easy to get you off of the poor shared hosting environment into …

Happy Monday everyone, We had another great week for ZoomAdmin, QA automation is great, but downside is that you get to find a lot of small bugs that you need to fix 🙂 But we’ve also made significant changes last few weeks, I’ll do a video demo for next week. Today, I wanted to discuss …

Hey everyone, We had a great week, with our new QA team members getting up to speed and starting the automation process. I wanted to do this post to go through some of the benefits of having QA as part of your dev team. I believe many startups start this part too late and wait …

Why We’re moving to Mysql and Advantages/Disadvantages Hope everyone had a great labor day long weekend! As for us, building a product or running a startup doesn’t give you long weekends 🙂 I started the slow process of moving to Mysql, but I wanted to do a quick breakdown of my view on advantages and …

Hey everyone, I realized, I haven’t been doing the demos for last couple of weeks, I had some time today and decided to demo a few of the new features we’ve built. See the video.   Please write a comment on our LinkedIn Post and tell us how you liked/disliked the new features, we still …

Week 23 Updates and How we went about implementing QA Process for ZoomAdmin This week I took some time off to visit Costa Rica, it’s a beautiful place, if you haven’t been, I strongly recommend to visit. The good part was that I took a lot of time to implement the new QA processes along with …

And Week 22 Updates on ZoomAdmin Startup A while ago, I wrote a post “Does Outsourcing Work?” and I went through some points as to why Outsourcing doesn’t work in most cases. As you can assume, there were a lot of comments/opinions on both sides, but some people asked, well, what would you do to …

Hi guys, First, if you missed my last week’s 20 Week Anniversary, read that first. I made a quick tutorial video which covers the following items: Using WordPress Rest API to build your side blog. Achieve Under 100 millisecond load time performance with caching Clear the cache as WordPress data changes Securing your WordPress installation …

An overview of past 20 weeks of ZoomAdmin Development It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 20 weeks since we started building ZoomAdmin in a team environment. Granted, I started the to work on the general architecture even a few weeks before that, but full scale development was started 20 weeks ago. You can find …

We’ve added more Web Server and DNS Server features, checkout the ZoomAdmin demo video and let us know what you think. Thank you all for all of your feedback/comments on our last demo, we always greatly appreciate everyone’s feedback. If you haven’t watched last week’s demo, please do that there: http://bit.ly/2LbImcb as it gives an …

Developers – ZoomAdmin v1 is aimed to be for our Developer community, see the Demo video and give your feedback. This week, we converted most of the modules to use AntDesign React component library. It was a lot of work, but worth it as it makes creating even richer components much easier. Plus, I’m really …

As promised, I’m going to start posting short demo videos on our progress with ZoomAdmin. I finally made a decision to go with AntDesign React component library. I would have gone with AtlasKit, but they don’t support Typescript, which is disappointing as I happen to love Typescript and use it heavily in our ZoomAdmin project. …

This week we took some time off, hence I’m going to make this post short. With any startup, it’s very important to take time-off and unwind, re-evaluate the strategy and move forward plan. If you’re working on a startup or even a side product, take some time off, don’t do any work, simply go to …

It’s strange how things haven’t improved much in years for remote/livecoding changes. This week things were a little slower as I spent most my time on powershell and remote coding. Team was mainly focused on certain UI pages. I started my web coding career mostly using php, what I loved about it was that the …

This seems to be a less spoken topic, if it wasn’t for UI/UX Google/Facebook might not be here? We had another great week with ZoomAdmin. While the team is working on different parts and starting the use of Katalon for testing, I’m fighting with Powershell 🙂 Today I wanted to talk about UI/UX. I’ve had …

5 Changes/Things That Made a Big Difference! Hey everyone, hope you’re having a great weekend. As always, want to share our weekly progress on ZoomAdmin with my LI network. I believe this was one of our most productive weeks so far. Here are 5 Things We Changed this week: 1. Updated Video Training – Software …

This Week’s Review and new Testing Automation Tool Hey everyone, hope your weekend is going great so far. This week while team made a great progress on different modules, I spent some time learning Testing Automation tool “Katalon” or Katalon Studio If you’ve never used it, at first glance, it’ll look very complicated and IT …

One of The Hardest Things Startups Need To Do! After launching the website with a few screenshots last week, I went on to speak with a handful of people. Now, I’ve been following the startup community and process for years. I’ve done my share of reading and attending startup/investor events to fully understand the process. …

Need your feedback. I know many of you have been waiting patiently to get more details about the idea/product we’re building. So here you go, for our Week 10 Anniversary, I wanted to put a simple website together, with some screenshots so that I can share and hopefully get some feedback. The name of our …

As a founder, You have NO vacations in Startups! This week’s focus was to address the client-side state management architecture. Those of you who are familiar with React, know that state management can easily get out of control if not done well. I approached the solution from a different angle, I did not want to …

This Week’s Review and Application Compile/Deploy Times We had great sprint this week. The team made progress on a number of components, while I was focused on overall Data Structure. A well-designed architecture and data structure is a must for our SaaS as it’s going to be a massive application by the time we’re done …

How long does it take to On-Board New Developers in your team? This week, we added 2 new developers to our team. This was a good opportunity to understand if our processes, documentation and videos are enough to have, what I call “Self-Boarding’, I want to have a step-by-step process for anyone to follow fully …

We spent the week on some major project structure and architecture changes. Some may disagree and try to rush into MVP and get it out. Not me, I want to build a high quality and easily scalable application. Not only that, but I want to create an architecture that’s simple to follow and powerful. One …

I spent a lot of time last week researching React component libs Team made a great progress this week, and we almost fully completed the sprint. It was cool to see the different pages load. One my developers said something like, “now, I actually get what we’re building.” it’s so true, until you actually design …

Here is Why you should think twice before jumping on to a new Tech. This week, the progress was slower as we start getting into client-side/React pieces. React is an amazing framework, but it’s still newer. As developers, often we are tempted to make the switch and start learning a new framework, platform or language. …

We had our first real Sprint Demo, it was exciting to see the app live. We have a weekly sprint demo session with the team and today, it was our first real demo. I spent a lot of time getting our continuous build/deploy working properly, and it’s so cool to see it just work. I …

It’s so cool to see version 0.01 of your app in Production. It was only our second week, but my goal was to deploy whatever we had to Prod. Of course, I could have gone the easy way and manually copy over the binaries and get it to work. But no, easy is no fun! …

Decision made, I’m working on a new SaaS Product It took me awhile and went through several ideas But at the end of the day, I wanted to work on something that I’m passionate about, and something that automates/simplifies tasks. I’m going to share the development process and the progress here. I’ll share more about …