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Ryan Gray is the founder and CEO of NameHero, one of the fastest growing independent web hosts in the United States. Ryan has been working online since 1998 and has over two-decades experience in Internet Entrepreneurship.
Recently I needed to run a Ruby app on cPanel using a non-standard Apache port (i.e. http://mydomain.com:6000) but wanted to send live traffic to a subdomain with SSL (i.e. https://sub.mydomain.com). After some research along with some trial and error I discovered a method that worked easily, therefore I wanted to share it to hopefully save […]
From time-to-time we’ll often get requests from customers on how to run Ruby apps on cPanel. Over the years we’ve seen a steep decline in such requests, but there are certainly still instances where it’s much needed. Despite cPanel adding their Application Manager to run Ruby on Rails with Phusion Passenger, I’ve still found it […]
One of the most common pre-sales questions we get for our Reseller Hosting packages is how much does it cost before you’re up and running with your own business? Reselling web hosting provides one of the lowest barriers of entry of virtually any other business out there. There is no inventory to stock You don’t […]
I’m proud to announce that all of our Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting packages can now be deployed in our Netherlands datacenter! As you’ll notice in the above image there is now a toggle below our Web Hosting (and Reseller) packages that allow you to switch from our default United States locations. Simply click “NL […]
Late last month cPanel, the most-used control panel for web hosts around the world, including NameHero, announced a shocking change to their license pricing structure. For over two-decades they had been licensing their control panel software to web hosts under a three different options: cPanel Solo (1 domain), cPanel & WHM VPS (virtual servers), and […]
I always like to write blog posts based on feedback I see inside our support center to help customers solve common issues faster. I’ve noticed an increase in tickets involving emails being flagged as spam (i.e. when you send an email from your hosting account, it either ends up in the recipient’s spam box or […]
We often have Resellers get their business in a position where they want to have more control and upgrade to a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Given our high-speed cloud infrastructure, this allows customers to move over to a semi-dedicated environment with the ability to add more resources as their business grows (full root access and […]
I’m proud to announce we’ve crossed an important milestone: our Official YouTube Channel has officially reached 1,000,000+ Views! Have you subscribed yet? If you’ve followed our Blog it’s likely you’ve noticed how much I enjoy doing video tutorials. Prior to NameHero I operated an Internet Marketing discussion forum where we’d hold live seminars across the […]
I was recently asked by a potential client if Reselling Web Hosting is still as lucrative as I’ve posted about previously. This is a very interesting question as two years ago almost to this day, I published another article on Where I See The Web Hosting Industry In Five Years. Given we’re ~50% past this […]
My brother and I were talking this week and he brought up a great question: do you register the domain name of your kids? This immediately made me think back to 1998 when I started working online. My first “dot com” was prowebresources.com and I paid $75 for it at Network Solutions. During this time, […]