Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
For the past week or so, Google Analytics has been showing inflated stats for several of my pages. A while back, I’d written about fake traffic in Google Analytics from visitors that weren’t coming to your site. I don’t know whether the perpetrators finally stopped or whether their tactics were blocked by Google. But the […]
Updated: May 1, 2023 Have you encountered an error when attempting to install WordPress? The popular content management system (CMS) is known for being easy to install. With WordPress, you can build anything from a basic blog to an e-commerce website. At NameHero, we always do our best to resolve hosting errors and quickly as […]
No one – probably not even Google’s search engineers – understands all the factors that go into ranking search results. Particularly with the integration of AI, I’m convinced that even the people who built the system no longer know what goes into determining which results show up in which position, let alone the respective weightings. […]
I’m a huge admirer of QUIC.cloud, and they currently fill a need that I think is met only by Cloudflare. Cloudflare is, of course, a lot more mature and has more features, but QUIC.cloud is filling out its feature set nicely. One of the biggest advantages of a Cloudflare Pro is the Web Application Firewall […]
I’m constantly trying to find better backup solutions for my website. While I lucked out and got grandfathered into a cheap DropMySite plan for 10 GB, DropMySite has since changed its pricing, and it’s no longer suitable for ordinary website hosting. I’ve been looking into Amazon’s AWS S3 for backups, and since Cloudflare introduced R2 […]
I freely admit to finding the “Vary” response header confusing. I know that it controls caching and can take various values such as “Cookie”, “Referrer”, and many other values. I know that it controls the behavior of the cache and that having a messy “Vary” response header can have a terrible impact on cache times. […]
NameHero’s VPS hosting is hosting that they manage for you, so you can focus your attention on your website instead of dealing with the headaches of server management. While NameHero doesn’t offer unmanaged VPS servers, many other web hosts do. In this article, let’s look at what separates unmanaged from managed VPS servers and why […]
It’s hard to settle on a good backup solution for WordPress. Each method comes with its own drawbacks. I thought I’d found the perfect solution in DropMySite, but they closed their service to new retail customers, and we’re left without a good option. In this article, I’ll explain what’s wrong with Jetpack Backup, and why […]
If you’re collaborating with someone to write a post, it’s often useful to show it to them for a final check before publishing it. Unfortunately, there’s no way to share a post draft in WordPress with a stranger. Instead, you have to create an account for them, send the verification mail, and go through this […]
Earlier, I’d written about the GenerateBlocks plugin for advanced layouts, and it’s one I use extensively on my site. But Automattic – the creator of WordPress – has their own version called the “Layout Grid Block”. While it’s not as fully featured at GenerateBlocks, it’s quite impressive, and I feel more people should consider one […]