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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.
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, […]
I’m proud to announce we’ve officially launched our new client interface! While Speed, Reliability, and Scalability for an affordable price were my primary driving factors into developing NameHero, I also wanted to make sure our client interface worked on all devices (including smartphones and tablets). Back in 2014 I was extremely frustrated that the majority […]
We provide free access to Cloudflare and their Railgun on all of our Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting packages. This has been a huge selling point as many other shared web hosts in the industry charge a premium for this feature. Cloudflare has gained huge popularity over the last decade as they offer a quick […]
I got started building NameHero as I needed a platform where I could manage all my domain names I had purchased as investments in one place. Since the late 90s I’ve been investing in .coms that I felt are of value. Just like physical real estate, .com values have continued to increase year-after-year and I […]
At the end of 2018, PHP 5.6 officially quit receiving security updates along with PHP 7.0. Towards the end of quarter 4, our team worked around the clock to ensure our entire infrastructure was prepared for this change. I’m proud to announce that PHP 7.2 is now the default PHP version across our entire network! […]
Having ran online businesses my entire career, I know how important uptime is. Just one hour of downtime can be extremely costly to an online business as you instantly lose visitors, prospects, and even current customers. In today’s instant gratification world, if people cannot access your website, they’ll be off to your competition in milliseconds. […]
December 28, 1998 was a time when it was unheard of to work online. The Internet was just beginning to rise in popularity as people were getting online with their dial-up connections using America Online a/k/a AOL (I’m sure you remember the disks they used to send out in the mail). I actually never planned […]
Those that have been reading our blog for a while know how important it is to me to provide a high performing, reliable, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure; that’s why I started NameHero in the first place. In order to accomplish this we have to constantly evolve with the changing online world and adapt our […]
Ready to build your new website? Trying to move your website from another web host? Regardless your situation we try to make things as easy as possible for those wanting to get started web hosting with us! In this guide, I’ll walk you through a basic Web Hosting account setup step-by-step so you can spend […]
The time has finally arrived! WordPress 5.0 was officially released on December 6th. This is the largest update to the core WordPress files since they started the project and has many new features most notably the Gutenberg editor. You can read more about the changes in WordPress 5.0 here. With this being a major release, […]