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On NameHero, we have a number of different plans for different types of hosting, ranging from ordinary shared hosting, to VPS and dedicated servers based in the cloud. What often isn’t clear is what exactly are the limitations on the first – shared hosting. Because of its very nature, shared hosting is complicated because of […]
In a crowded marketplace, web hosts need to find ways to differentiate themselves with value-added offerings. Some go with freebies like a free domain, or domain privacy. Others differentiate themselves with features like staging, and dynamic caching. Very few hosts provide server level dynamic caching out of the box on their basic shared hosting plans. […]
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 […]
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! […]
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’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 […]
Updated: February 1, 2024 I keep seeing this issue come up inside the helpdesk (as well as on Stack Overflow), so I thought I’d save us all sometime by doing a guide on how to connect to your NameHero hosting account via SSH and SFTP. The first part of this guide will walk through how […]
At Name Hero we allow all customers the ability to take full control over their PHP settings right inside of cPanel. Many WordPress themes and even WHMCS require the Max Input Variables to be increased from the default values. To do this, you simply login to the cPanel of the website you’re wanting to edit […]