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I'm a NameHero team member, and an expert on WordPress and web hosting. I've been in this industry since 2008. I've also developed apps on Android and have written extensive tutorials on managing Linux servers. You can contact me on my website WP-Tweaks.com!
As a beginner, cPanel can be pretty confusing. The tool has evolved to be a swiss army knife for web hosting management. Over the years, it’s evolved to have so many options, that it can intimidate those new to cPanel. On top of that, if you add the plugins inserted hosting providers, it can get […]
If you look at NameHero’s shared hosting packages, you see that none of them offer a dedicated IP address. Some web hosts do provide this even on shared hosting, so it’s understandable if wonder whether or not this has an impact on your search rankings. There’s been a lot of confusion around this point, and […]
Amazon would like nothing more than to claim yet another marketplace for itself. Among the many in which they’re already the biggest fish, they’ve come to dominate the hosting infrastructure space with AWS. But providing the infrastructure to allow for web hosting isn’t the same as providing actual web hosting. And here I fear, is […]
CDN providers are getting into the caching game. They’re realizing that the days of restricting caching to static content are over. Now many of them are exploring ways to take entire HTML pages and store them on EDGE servers. Cloudflare recently took an official step towards this goal when it introduced its “Automatic Platform Optimization” […]
When Cloudflare announced its own analytics solution nicknamed “Browser Insights”, I was very excited to try it out, along with thousands of other people who have come to enjoy Cloudflare’s services. So I took it for a test spin, and it shows a lot of promise. The interface is amazing, and allows one to easily […]
As time goes by, I’ve come to rely more and more on Cloudflare to do the actual heavy lifting on my site. With the help of page rules, firewall configurations, and some plugins to integrate with Cloudflare caching, I’ve managed to lift most of the heavy lifting from my own site and push the workload […]
The number of things to think about when setting up your website is tremendous. Many of them are contingent plans that won’t bear fruit immediately but might save your hide later down the line. Backup is one such example. Others will silently protect your site in the background, and you’ll never even notice how much […]
The developments since 2018 have dealt the death-knell for pretty much all paid SSL certificates. First the big news towards the end of 2018 that Google would be giving some (small) weightage to HTTPS websites in their search rankings. The second piece of news was from mid-2020, when Google and Apple decided to limit the […]
When I first started hosting on a relatively low-cost server, there came a point when my site suddenly slowed down. It became pretty bad. When I contacted my host, they suggested I upgrade to the next highest tier because I’d outgrown my existing plan. But I wasn’t yet convinced, because my traffic hadn’t suddenly increased […]
Hosting companies often segregate their plans by the recommended number of visitors that they think the package can handle. For example, here are the recommendations for NameHero’s web hosting packages (per month): Starter – 10,000 visits Plus – 25,000 visits Turbo – 50,000 visits Business – 100,000 visits Metrics like this are seriously flawed, but […]