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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.
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 […]
Updated: 7/12/2023 We often get asked in our pre-sale queries what is the best way to host more than one website in an account. All of our basic web hosting packages, except for the Starter Cloud, allow the ability to host more than one website: As you notice above, the Plus Cloud allows hosting for […]
A lot of our Resellers want to have the ability to resell our VPS Hosting packages. Given our low prices, many Resellers find comfort in being able to offer the same high-speed infrastructure to their larger customers that require more dedicated resources. For this reason, we’ve designed all our VPS hosting packages to be 100% […]
I decided to go out on a limb today and daringly install the Gutenberg editor for WordPress plugin that will soon be replacing the classic editor in WordPress 5.0. There is a lot of discussion amongst the WordPress community questioning the move, some stating that it’s a mistake for WordPress to include it in its […]
WordPress is racing towards their controversial 5.0 update which includes the Gutenberg page/post editor in its core. Feedback from the WordPress community doesn’t seem all that promising: Earlier today, I had Bhagwad share his thoughts on the blog, which he calls Gutenberg annoying as hell. Personally, I’m old-school, and I’ve had a hard enough time […]