Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
With Google’s Core Web Vitals’ deadline in May drawing every closer, website owners are becoming more and more desperate to get the “green” lines in their search consoles like this: Unfortunately, they’re finding that getting a good score on all these following metrics is really hard! Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) First […]
I perform a regular audit of the traffic hitting the origin server on my site WP-Tweaks, to see which requests are using the most resources. For a while now, I’ve noticed that feeds were the cause of a large number of requests. So if your website is: example.com/ Then your feed URL is likely: example.com/feed/ […]
Over at NameHero, we’re quite proud of our integration with LiteSpeed. It’s much faster compared to Apache, and brings a host of benefits such as dynamic caching. With the introduction of QUIC.cloud, the value of LiteSpeed web hosting has skyrocketed. And since the functionality is somewhat similar to Cloudflare, it’s natural to ask what the […]
Google has been pushing its new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for a while now. It’s been urging website owners to upgrade their existing Universal Analytics code and to run the GA4 code side by side. I first tried it out months ago, and then deleted the account because I followed Google’s advice and tried to […]
It’s received wisdom in the web hosting world, that the standard progression of hosting goes like this: Shared Hosting -> VPS Hosting -> Dedicated Servers But is this always true? Is a VPS is always better than any and all shared hosting? In my opinion, no. There are situations where shared hosting is objectively better. […]
Last night when checking my analytics, I saw a massive spike in traffic compared to other days. Here’s a screenshot: Apparently, some bot is recording a non-existent page on my site “/trafficbot.live”. Now I’m no stranger to bot attacks. I have a number of tools to deal with these. I was surprised however, that my […]
So you’ve decided to start a new website for your business. You’ve got the perfect name. But you’re wondering – what extension should you use? There are so many! And more are being added all the time. Should you go for something traditional, or make it flashy? Let’s take a look at some of the […]
Caching software allows you to configure your cache such that each time you use a query string, a separate cache is created for it. So you’ll have different caches for the following: style.css?v=1style.css?v=2etc… Personally, I set my cache configuration to “Ignore query strings” because it turns out to be much more efficient, and there are […]
This is going to be a controversial opinion. I’ve written a lot about website security on NameHero, and best practices for both shared and VPS hosting. So you might think that one of the first things I do is to enable two-factor authentication or 2FA wherever I can. NameHero itself offers the ability to enable […]
I’m always monitoring my traffic to see which requests are causing the most impact on my origin server. I’ve already shown how to protect your WordPress login page using firewall rules and the challenges of rate-limiting. But you need to be on a constant lookout to see what new vulnerabilities are being exploited. If you […]