Here’s 6 reliable resources that will get you absorbing WP knowledge like a hungry sponge.

1) WordPress Lessons (from WordPress.org)

The best place to start for the newbie. Divided into 4 sections that touch on all the essentials: “WordPress for Beginners”, “Designing Your WordPress Site”, “Lessons for Theme Development”, and “Website Development”. Solid.

2) WordPress Forums

The official WordPress forums. Along with the WP documentation, there’s valuable, regularly updated information that stretches across any WP topic you can think of.

3) WPtuts

WP tuts is part of the “Plus” network of tutorial sites that cover everything from app development to Adobe’s Creative Suite. You’ll find helpful WordPress-focused articles, videos and tutorials that benefit users at any skill level.

Check out this collection of WordPress cheat sheets they put together. Good stuff.

4) Smashing Magazine

Somewhat similar to WPtuts, the Smashing Magazine network collects the best articles and tutorials from across the web for WordPress users, and also covers topics related to design, web development and user experience. An endless resource.

5) Sitepoint

Another great provider of info for the web professional or the newcomer interested in WordPress. You’ll find tutorials, podcasts, a bookstore, and online courses available for developers and designers for a reasonable price. Highly recommended.

6) WPCandy

While this contains content similar to the resources listed above, there’s also solid opinion and interview articles with WordPress experts. Looking for an experienced WordPress developer to make your site? There’s a easy-to-search directory of WordPress pros for hire.

The biggest fear we’ve always had in the hosting world is something like this happening. Due to the fact that we lease our servers through a trusted company we depend on them to ensure network reliability and things like this are out of our reach.

On another note this is why we decided to switch to our Reseller Central product. The majority of our customers are using this product allowing them to host their websites throughout multiple data centers for this exact reason. Obviously things will happen whether we see an outage for 10 minutes, 60 minutes, or in this case 24 hours and counting. At this time it does appear that the majority of the websites hosted by HostNine are online but we still have customers on our legacy WHM servers which are located at the planet. Unfortunately all of their websites have been down during this outage. We strongly urge anyone not using Reseller Central to upgrade to it as soon as possible once things are back online by filling out the form located securely on our website at https://secure.hostnine.com/upgrade/

With Reseller Central you have the ability to host your websites all around the world in over 10 different data centers. This way if one data center has issues it may only affect some of your websites rather than all of them.

A full list of locations available at this time can be found in this map below:

This is a unique feature only found at HostNine as Reseller Central was built in house from the ground up. One of the latest features added was the Windows hosting ability so you can now host websites on both Linux (cPanel) and Windows (Plesk) platforms at the click of a button and the best part is everything is manageable from one single control panel.

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The reason I mention Reseller Central in this response to the major outage at The Planet is due to the fact that we cannot stress the importance/power of this platform enough. This is not intended as a sales pitch as we do not charge for the switch/upgrade. We just feel it’s a logical solution that has proven to be effective especially in this situation.

If you have any questions about Reseller Central please feel free to email support@hostnine.com

If you have any questions about the Network Outage in Texas please email billing@hostnine.com

We appreciate your patience and understanding in this unfortunate event and will be providing you with updates as we get them through our forums.

Sincerely,
Rick D. Brown
HostNine L.L.C
www.hostnine.com

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That majority of our Shared and Reseller services are currently going to the new Chicago data center and so far it has been great! Customers are noticing better routing and speeds to this location as well.