Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
Every website owner has to decide on the best way to optimize speed and accessibility. Sometimes those two goals push in opposing directions. Filtering your traffic based on the country is a legit tactic, despite some people trying to shame you into doing otherwise. If you think you can improve your website performance or reduce […]
These days, Cloudflare is putting a lot of effort into revamping its cache system. The other day, I wrote about the new Cloudflare Cache Reserve system that had infinite retention using R2 storage. Now Cloudflare is splitting its well-known “Page Rules” system into different streams, with one stream dedicated solely to caching. Here’s how it […]
Cloudflare’s at it again, with a new feature that lets you store resources in its CDN permanently. As noted in my earlier article on why your CDN cache hit ratio is so low, one of the reasons is that CDNs always purge content that your visitors haven’t accessed in at least two days. This means […]
Though the latter is more common, images in the WebP format are smaller than those in the JPEG format. However, most image distribution sites offer downloads in either PNG or JPEG. Programs like MS Paint (still extremely common – I use it myself!) don’t offer the option to save images in WebP. But since WebP […]
WordPress 6.1 is set to be released in a few days, and I think some of the enhancements will be low-key game-changing. Maybe not right away, but the direction in which Gutenberg is moving makes me think that some plugins will soon become less important and can be replaced with native Gutenberg functionality. Dimensions with […]
A short while back, Cloudflare announced a new tool – Turnstile. It’s an alternative to the ubiquitous CAPTCHA forms that are used on 98% of websites. This new tool achieves the same goal of protecting you from spam, but without the intrusive puzzle-solving and sending your data to Google. Here’s how to integrate Cloudflare’s turnstile […]
Ever since Google stated that SSL would be a ranking factor for websites, every web host has started offering free SSL. However, NameHero was offering free SSL certificates even earlier – well before other hosting providers jumped on the bandwagon. But Let’s Encrypt, and AutoSSL certificates are unstable for the following reasons. 1. AutoSSL and […]
With so many search result enhancements, it’s hard to determine what your visitors see. For example, this is the search result for my NameHero coupon page at WP-Tweaks.com: As you can see, it shows a ratings search enhancement and a list of site links below. But there are a lot of other enhancements that could […]
I like using Cloudflare to process the redirection of my affiliate links. It spares my origin server the extra traffic and results in a faster redirect experience for my visitors. I’d used Page Rules to achieve these redirects for a long time. But the recent tool from Cloudflare called Bulk Redirects offers a better alternative. […]
Response headers can be notoriously difficult to change. Particularly if you’re using a CMS like WordPress, it’s often a mystery where certain response headers are coming from. Cache-control is a great example of where many WordPress developers have torn their hair out in frustration, trying to figure out which plugin or .htaccess rule is setting […]