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Blesta is a billing and automation platform for hosting providers, and many view it as a great alternative to WHMCS for managing their hosting business. For this tutorial, I’ll use cPanel as a front to install Blesta, but you can also do the same with SSH. Once you’ve finished installing Blesta, you won’t need to […]
Forward with masking is a kind of redirect that lets you display content from another web page to users but keeps the original URL in the address bar. Here’s an overview of how it works, its implications, and whether or not it’s a good idea for your website. What is Forwarding with Masking? Let’s say […]
Thanks to its cloud-based architecture, you can start using your NameHero account immediately after placing your order. Other web hosts without a cloud infrastructure need time to set aside and “provision” the resources on their servers. NameHero provisioning, however, takes just a few minutes. To give you an example, I first placed the order for […]
Shared web hosting is a wonderful thing. It lets anyone start their website for a few dollars a month, without locking themselves into a software platform that stops them from migrating to other services. It’s by far the most common form of hosting, and especially with a good web host like NameHero, it can serve […]
Web hosting is a complicated experience. There are many moving parts, pricing models, and optional value-added services. It’s not easy to determine in advance how much it costs to start a web hosting business. Add in the fact that different hosting providers have varying levels of service and performance, and we can conclude that the […]
It seems obvious, but John Mueller is wrong. The recent outage of Facebook’s entire infrastructure left many businesses high and dry that relied entirely on a single marketing channel like Instagram (for instance). If anyone sold products exclusively on one of these platforms, they essentially ceased to exist for those 6 hours. Now obviously this […]
The past year has seen a new trend in web hosting – pushing more and more computing to edge nodes away from the origin web server. It’s still in its infancy, but as it takes hold, it’ll change traditional web hosting forever. EDGE Hosting – One Step Beyond CDNs A traditional CDN just hosts dynamic […]
Every business needs an online presence. These days, I’ve seen more and more small business owners outsource their online presence to 3rd party social media companies like Facebook and Instagram. Sometimes when meeting a proprietor in person, I ask them for their website – and they tell me to find them on Facebook! Such organizations […]
When it comes to storage, most people only think about SSD vs HDD. SSDs are fast, HDDs are slow. And web hosting that promises the former over the latter is better. And that’s it. However, more recent technology updates have improved the performance of SSDs – and the technology to watch is NVMe drives. It […]
When you switch your DNS servers to Cloudflare, all your traffic to your main domain is proxied through Cloudflare. However, if you add subdomains, it doesn’t automatically route that traffic as well. If you’re on shared hosting, you probably have a number of websites on the same plan. All of these websites draw from the […]