Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
WordPress Gutenberg changed the focus of the editor from writing, to “page building”. While a lot of people including myself hated it at first, its benefits have begun to grow on me. And with the bugs ironed out, I can unequivocally say that it’s far better than the original editor. Now I use blocks myself […]
I’ve been writing on the web since 2008. And since then, I’ve seen websites come and go. It’s often dizzying to see how quickly a site can rise, only to fall and never be seen again. I’ve seen pages that rank for a year or more for certain keywords, and then simply…vanish. Sometimes I’ve been […]
I have very positive feelings towards Yoast. I remember switching to it years and years ago and have been using it continuously on all my websites since. It’s one of the first plugins I install and I still use it on my sites today. I’ve often considered buying the Yoast SEO premium version – because […]
Website design is full of fads. Color combinations come and go. App design moves from “skeuomorphism” to “flat” design – like the simulation of a page turn in a books application instead of just sliding into the next page. Some of these fads stick around, whereas others fall by the wayside. I feel that the […]
Well, that happened relatively fast! After years of telling us that cookies are going away and preparing the industry for Google Chrome’s shift away towards alternatives. But when push finally came to shove, and Google rolled out a definitive timeline, the backlash was swift. Here on NameHero, we were one of the first to call […]
As a website owner, you want your visitors to realize that your site contains the most up-to-date information. This means that you frequently have to include dates in your titles and content. But let’s be honest it’s not just for visitors, but also search engines. Some of us might wrinkle our nose in distaste at […]
With Google’s latest “Page Experience” update, a lot of websites that heavily invested in AMP are going to find the return on that investment severely diminished. This is for two reasons. First, the emergence of the various facets of page speed as ranking factors has propelled website owners to pay a lot of attention to […]
The past year has seen a new trend in web hosting – pushing more and more computing to edge nodes away from the origin web server. It’s still in its infancy, but as it takes hold, it’ll change traditional web hosting forever. EDGE Hosting – One Step Beyond CDNs A traditional CDN just hosts dynamic […]
On the 2nd of June 2021, QUIC.cloud finally exited beta and entered production status. With this, they’ve finalized their pricing, introduced new regional pricing, and are having a 50% discount on data transfer till the end of the year. Also, it becomes the first CDN to support HTTP/3 both for connections to the origin server, […]
Every business needs an online presence. These days, I’ve seen more and more small business owners outsource their online presence to 3rd party social media companies like Facebook and Instagram. Sometimes when meeting a proprietor in person, I ask them for their website – and they tell me to find them on Facebook! Such organizations […]