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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.
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. […]
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, […]
We get a ton of pre-sale questions here at NameHero asking us for a comparison against some of the other top brands within the web hosting industry. Rather than trying to have our sales representatives do the comparisons I try to do blog posts and videos on our YouTube channel to help our customers decide: […]
If you’ve followed our blog, you may have noticed a couple different tutorials on how to setup a WordPress staging environment: How To Setup A WordPress Staging Site How To Clone Your WordPress Website With 1 Click While both of these options work well, there is still a bit of manual work needed to push […]
It’s a very common for our customers to signup for web hosting and want to forward the email from their domain to their Gmail account. Many businesses want to use their domain for their email address as it looks more professional, but they only want one place to login and check their email. I understand […]
We frequently get tickets asking us to change the location of WordPress. If you’re using the Softaculous auto installer it’s not hard to accidentally install WordPress in the /wp folder as that’s the default location. Some people will simply delete the install and re-install leaving that parameter out: If that’s not an option for you […]
If you’re having trouble connecting to your website or server in your web browser, it’s important to perform a traceroute and/or ping from your local network to see where the connection is timing out. At NameHero we’re known for 99.9% uptime, therefore if you’re website is not connecting, it’s likely there is something preventing it […]
Having trouble accessing your website? Perhaps you can access it on your computer by your friend can’t? If you’ve checked for an IP block and still can’t access, it’s possible you have some DNS issues. DNS issues can be extremely frustrating and they can create some pretty big problems for your website. The good news […]