Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
The big tech giants are scary companies to compete with. I remember there was a time when Google was entering industry after industry, and the local players were petrified that it would destroy them. Folklore has is that VCs, when presented with a business proposal, used to ask, “What will you do if Google comes […]
Earlier in part 1, I’d written about one method to have offsite backups, involving a local plugin on your site that creates zip archives of your site and database, and then dumps them to an external storage service like say Dropbox or Google Drive. In that, I explained that the disadvantage is the server performance […]
Offsite backups are important. Even though NameHero is one of the few hosting providers to allow free automatic and manual backups and restores, these are all still stored on the same servers and networks that host your website. They protect you if something goes wrong with your site, but not from a systemic system-wide outage. […]
Advice on how to improve your page speed can be a double-edged sword. For one thing, a lot of people who write these articles don’t know what it’s like to actually run a medium-sized or large website with even a little bit of complexity. If they did, they wouldn’t be so confident in their recommendations. […]
Inline JavaScript has been the bane of attempts to speed up my site. I’ve been fighting with the jQuery JavaScript library for years. All advice on making your website faster talks about the importance of deferring JavaScript so that it doesn’t execute in the header and slow down your page rendering. But the problem with […]
The past few years have seen hosting providers try and differentiate themselves in many ways – and one of the hottest buzzwords has been “cloud hosting”. Unfortunately, there’s no standardized definition of what this means, and so companies have been free to capitalize on the confusion. In this article, I’ll explain the various things that […]
This morning when I went to my site’s dashboard, I saw that the Automattic team had released the latest version of the Jetpack plugin – 8.4. As per my usual habit of never updating a plugin until at least 4 days had passed, I first went through the update notes to see if there were […]
Quality customer support in web hosting is expensive to provide. And if you’re with a provider like NameHero that takes customer care very seriously, you’ll notice that there are plenty of cheaper web hosts out there. You might even ask yourself “Is it worth it?”. In this article, I’ll explain how customer support in web […]
Just because we have a new technology, doesn’t mean we all need to scramble on to it. Or more precisely, we should try out everything, and choose to keep what works. Discard the rest. For years now, Google has been pushing AMP for websites to display on mobile phones. And for years, I signed up […]
Because of how widespread WordPress is, most web hosts offer “WordPress Hosting” in addition to their normal web hosting packages. This trend seems to have really taken off in the past few years and has forced many hosting providers to also display “WordPress Hosting” on their website. But what does this mean? Is WordPress hosting […]