Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
A website and its associated backend tend to build up “crud” as time goes by. Especially if you’re running a complicated CMS like WordPress with a lot of moving parts. This dirt accumulates mainly in the database even if you don’t make any active changes to your site. Automatic plugin updates, cron jobs, user interactions, […]
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 […]
Reusable blocks in WordPress Gutenberg are an amazing feature that has greatly improved the maintainability of code on websites. I use them all the time for block scripts, special CSS instructions, and even for some repeatable patterns. The WordPress pattern directory is still a work in progress, and you can’t create your own patterns without […]
When talking about high-performance alternatives to the Apache web server, two names are most often seen as alternatives: NGINX LiteSpeed The former – NGINX – is an open-source alternative to Apache that boasts an event-driven architecture, is used by many web hosts looking to add extra features to their service. LiteSpeed on the other hand […]
A few days back on March 15th, 2022 Cloudflare announced that it will be bringing some Web Application Firewall (WAF) functionality to its free tier. Traditionally, free Cloudflare users have only been able to access 5 manual firewall rules that need to be configured individually. Even though you can get creative with OR and AND […]
Out of all the false information and anodynes that emerge from the SEO community, one piece of advice rings true – internal linking is crucial for good SEO. I’ve gone on record saying that, for the most part, John Mueller doesn’t have any real insight into Google’s SEO practices. But that doesn’t mean that everything […]
Caching is the secret sauce that can transform a slow page into one that loads blazing fast. There are many layers of caching – you can cache on the origin server, a POP endpoint, and even the browser. Using these techniques, you can obtain cache hit ratios of over 90% on networks like Cloudflare. However, […]
It’s important to support your content with what Google calls “secondary content” or “supporting content”. This is distinct from the main content or MC of a website, that directly deals with the topic in the heading or title. A good example of this supporting content is “Related Posts”, and you often see them on the […]
For a long time, I recommended DropMySite for offsite website backups that didn’t impact your site. I even wrote about using DropMySite with NameHero and why it was so good. Compared to other backup solutions, DropMySite was far cheaper and more efficient. It gave you a fixed amount of storage and backup for unlimited sites […]
Your write and maintain your website for human visitors. And yet when you peer into your analytics logs, you see that the vast majority of hits to your server come from bots. These don’t show up on client-side measuring tools like Google Analytics, but they appear on the server logs. Most traffic these days is […]