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A huge high-five and welcome to Netlify for the sponsorship this week.

If you haven't heard of Netlify, the big thing you should know is that it's web hosting, but more than that. It's web hosting with the developer workflow squarely at heart. You can spin up a site on Netlify in literally seconds. One way is through their robust CLI. Another way, that I find very comfortable (and just did the other day), is to log into the Netlify … Read article

Looking to take advantage of the srcset attribute or <picture> element, but don't want to store the different versions of each image? Looking to apply blurs to images that don't peg the browser? imgix can help.

imgix is a real-time image resizing service and CDN. Resize, crop, and process images simply by changing their URLs. Mix and match over 90 URL parameters for unlimited different ways to process images.

It's free to sign up, and every new account gets $10 … Read article

Media Temple is the host we both use and recommend here on CSS-Tricks.

Hot off the presses: Media Temple has launched Enterprise WordPress Hosting. This is for large-scale WordPress sites that need the scaling and high-availability of AWS, all managed by the crack engineers at Media Temple.

A little behind the scenes: everything is built on Docker containers. When a high traffic event happens that requires scaling up, that happens in seconds. Media is uploaded and stored on S3, … Read article

MyFonts is the best place to find, try, and buy fonts for your website. Their webfonts are flexible, easy to use, and don't require any monthly fees. Not only that, but you can try any font on your own site free for 30 days.

One thing that you may find appealing about MyFonts is that you host the fonts. That frees you up to use your own CDN, or use your own font loader, or integrate the fonts in whatever … Read article

Huge thanks to Kinsta for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week! We're big fans of WordPress around here, and know some of you out there are too. So this might come of interest: Kinsta is WordPress hosting that runs on Google Cloud Platform. And in fact, it's officially recommended by Google Cloud for fully-managed WordPress hosting.

What does that matter? Well, when you go with a cloud host you're entering a new realm of reliability. For example, your site is run in … Read article

Filestack is a web service that completely handles file uploads for your app.

Let's imagine a little web app together. The web app allows people to write reviews for anything they want. The give the review a name, type up their review, upload a photo, and publish it. Saving a name and text to a database is fairly easy, so the trickiest part about this little app is handling those photo uploads. Here's just a few considerations:

• You'll need to