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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.
If you’re using your VPS hosting package to resell web hosting, then you probably want to look into using Cloudlinux. Cloudlinux allows you the ability to set cPanel specific limits where you can define a set amount of member, I/O usage, Inodes (files), etc. protecting the entire machine from becoming overloaded. Back in the “old […]
Last week I was working with one of our customers on ways they could optimize their time to first byte (TTFB). If you’re familiar with many of the webpage speed tests out there, you know this is one of the important benchmarks, as an indication of the responsiveness of a webserver or other network resource. […]
We provide domain registration and transfer services to thousands of customers world-wide. Our Instant Domain Search and domain platform was specifically designed to take the pain out of managing domain portfolios and to allow you the ability to take full control of your business without having to go to multiple companies. Ask any of our […]
We’ve had hundreds of customers add DropMySite backups to their accounts since introducing in August. As many know, we offer complimentary nightly backups with one day data retention at NameHero, but sometimes our clients wish to have extra backups for added redundancy. I personally think it’s a great and smart idea! The great thing about […]
We use a lot of internal tools here at NameHero to help diagnose issues in our support desk. One of the most common is looking at a website’s DNS records to see if anything is amiss. Most often this will explain websites not resolving, emails not being delivered, etc. Especially websites that are migrated over […]
I’ve been pulling some long days here at NameHero HQ working on our new training center! While our blog and YouTube channel have been fantastic outlets to help train our customers / potential customers, we’ve decided to launch a course section of Startup Hero. My first course is titled Reseller Hosting 101 and covers everything […]
I’ve previously compared Reseller Hosting to VPS Hosting here on the blog, but I have yet to address the difference between Shared Hosting. At Name Hero we consider our Shared Hosting simply Web Hosting or Basic Web Hosting as all accounts are placed on our high-speed cloud that has the ability to instantly scale for […]
From time-to-time our support team may need to request from your the IP address of your home computer or network that you’re using to connect to your website. This is specifically important when you have a firewall block. If you accidentally type in your email or cPanel password incorrect more than once, our firewall may […]
All of our cloud web hosting packages here at Name Hero include cPanel. For those unfamiliar, it’s basically a browser-based control panel that allows to you completely manage your web hosting account with us. From creating email address to uploading files and setting up additional domains, it’s a very powerful piece of software. In my […]
Great news! Yesterday, we made the announcement about our partnership with DropMySite that allows us the ability to offer our customers their services directly through cPanel. It’s not too often I recommend a product, but this is really cool! DropMySite Cloud Backups DropMySite allows you to purchase space in bulk, starting at 5GB, and then […]