Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
With page speed about to become a ranking factor in May 2021, you need to figure out how to squeeze every last drop of speed out of your website. What’s more, desktop and mobile speeds are calculated differently. Here’s a screenshot of the Core Web Vitals section of my dashboard for my website: You can […]
I got up today and saw this traffic spike for my site: Sometime this morning, my server was suddenly hit with a flood of demands that bypassed Cloudflare’s cache and hit my server at WP-Tweaks.com directly. Given that I cache all my pages, I was naturally curious to see what this spike was and whether […]
Updated: December 13, 2023 At NameHero, we get a lot of questions about whether or not we have datacenters around the world. Most users ask this because they would like to have a datacenter geographically located nearby to maximize speed. However, a few recent advances in technology have made me question how important location is […]
Right now, NameHero offers a free domain with all Turbo and Business cloud plans when purchased for 2 years or more. You’ll notice that the free domain doesn’t come with a “Starter” or “Plus” plan. Why is this? After all, there are plenty of low-cost hosts that give you a free domain on even starter […]
Yesterday when I was checking up on the Cloudflare cache performance for my site WP-Tweaks.com, I saw this: After filtering traffic that made it past my cache to hit the origin server directly, I saw a huge spike of requests in an incredibly short time. What’s more, they were either redirected or gave a 404. […]
On the NameHero website, you see that all the web hosting plans have the words “Unlimited Storage” next to them. What’s more, this refers to SSD storage. So it’s not only unlimited but also fast. But is this a realistic promise? If the storage is unlimited, does it mean that you can host websites of […]
In an earlier article, I’d written about using Cloudflare and subscribing to the “Pro” plan. Of the many benefits, one of them is the extensive WAF that you can just “set and forget”. It blocks a wide range of threats at no additional impact to your site since the requests are handled on the edge […]
I continue to grapple with the consequences of uninstalling Jetpack on my WordPress website. Earlier, I’d written about how I needed to find an alternative contact form solution to replace the one that Jetpack provided. Now, there’s one more piece of functionality that I’m sure many people use, and which Jetpack provides for free – […]
Last week, I wrote about how I finally uninstalled Jetpack from WordPress. The plugin was too large, had constant updates, utilized external services, and was generally getting too unwieldy. I made the case that it was better to have smaller, specialized plugins instead of a single large one. It helps with site stability by removing […]
We’re approaching the end of the year, and websites need to start preparing for the different ways this can impact their appearance in the search results. For example, my site promotes NameHero services and compares hosting solutions with one another. A large amount of my traffic comes from people using search terms with the year […]