Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
Most of the time when you get web hosting and install WordPress on it, everything works by default out of the box. But sometimes, you might try doing things a little differently – perhaps install software that isn’t standardized, for example. Or you may need to increase certain in-built PHP limits like the memory allocation, […]
Every website owner uses analytics of some sort or another to track visits to their site, and other related metrics like referrals, conversions, etc. I remember way back in 2004, using basic scripts that just provided a bare log of visitors and their referrals. And how far we’ve come from then! But we all face […]
Yesterday on the 12th of November 2019, Automattic released the latest version of WordPress – v5.3. It’s the last major release for this year and brings a bunch of improvements to the Gutenberg editor, behind the scenes features for developers, and readies WordPress for the upcoming release of PHP 7.4. Here’s the full list of […]
One of the most common pre-sales questions we get for our Reseller Hosting packages is how much does it cost before you’re up and running with your own business? Reselling web hosting provides one of the lowest barriers of entry of virtually any other business out there. There is no inventory to stock You don’t […]
Late last month (October 2019), Google released “BERT” – a new algorithm update. BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, and is basically a complicated way of saying that Google now understands natural search queries better than before. It’s estimated to impact more than 10% of all search queries – a massive change that […]
Google is finally bringing page speed into the mainstream Google interface. So far, we only had Google’s fuzzy statement that page speed is a factor in your Google search rankings. This has been the case for years. To support this, they’ve created lots of tools like PageSpeed insights, and even the Chrome developer tools has […]
I’m proud to announce that all of our Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting packages can now be deployed in our Netherlands datacenter! As you’ll notice in the above image there is now a toggle below our Web Hosting (and Reseller) packages that allow you to switch from our default United States locations. Simply click “NL […]
When you execute a command in Linux, the Operating System needs to know where to find it. This isn’t unusual since even the Windows CLI has the same requirement. In Windows, the list of locations where the OS searches from the command is specified by the “ENVIRONMENT” variable. In Linux, this is called the “PATH” […]
If you’re starting to manage your own VPS server for the first time, you’ll know that you’re going to have to modify a lot of text files. Just basic steps like disabling root login require you to open up files and make changes. And in Linux, there is one text editor that reigns supreme – […]
October is supposed to be “National Cybersecurity Awareness Month”. So I decided to write a bunch of articles on Linux security. We’ve already covered disabling root access and how to change the SSH port. The next big issue is passwords. People say that we’re moving to a “passwordless” future. They point to the emergence of […]