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Over the past couple of weeks, we have noticed an uptick in comment form spam. Most of the spam we have seen seems to be coming from either .ru email addresses or qq email addresses. Some shops we are seeing are getting hundreds a day, making it nearly impossible to handle normal business, because they are too busy deleting the spam messages. For those of you unfamiliar with me, I own dh42, we support currently around 600 PrestaShop websites and a steadily growing number of thirty bees websites. Since thirty bees is so closely related to PrestaShop, the problems we are [...]

Here in the next couple of weeks, we are getting ready to start making thirty bees compliant with the European Union's Global Data Protection Regulations. This is likely going to be a big undertaking to comply with the EU regulations before the deadline comes into effect. The regulations around e-commerce shops are very wide sweeping and very vague at best. So we are left trying to decode the regulations to keep thirty bees users in compliance with them. If you have been eagerly waiting for thirty bees 1.0.4, you might have to wait a little bit longer. We are trying to figure [...]

We have decided after the success of our last crowdfunding module campaign that it is time to do another crowdfunding campaign to expand the free module selection in thirty bees. We are going to do the exact same method we did with the last crowdfunding campaign with this one as well. We are going to present three module choices and let our community vote on the modules. In our last campaign, we got a little too ambitious with the modules, especially the module that the community chose.  We had over 350 hours of development time in the module. That averaged out [...]

This is the time of year when most e-commerce shops are deciding what to do for the next year. The holiday season has come and gone, and now it is time to figure out the strategy for the next year. Are you going to stay on your current platform? Or are you going to migrate to a platform that more suits your needs? Maybe you want a faster shop, a more stable shop, or better SEO for your shop. Whatever the reason, now is the time to consider migrating. Over the last several weeks we have had a huge number of [...]

Using a CDN is a great way to improve the performance of your site. If you are trying to wring all the performance possible out of your site, it is usually a good choice to use one. A CDN will host your images, Javascript files, and CSS files in a location closer to your visitors. These files typically make up 80-90% of every page on your site. With thirty bees you can quickly and easily use the CDN service of your choice by simply setting the CDN in the back end. Cloudways CDN Cloudways has started offering a very reasonably priced [...]