Unlike many web hosts, NameHero allows for unlimited parked domains on even the cheapest starter plan. Most other providers have very limited quotas for parked domains in their basic plans and force you to upgrade if you want to have more than say, 5. Others don’t allow parked domains on their budget plans at all! […]
John Mueller Is Wrong – Changing The Date For SEO IS Useful!
When it comes to searching for reliable information about search ranking factors, few people are more re-tweeted and referenced than John Mueller, well known by his Twitter handle @JohnMu. Like any good webmaster, I follow him on social media, and listen carefully to what he says. However, I often take his proclamations with a pinch […]
Should You Look For Root Access In A VPS?
When shopping for VPS hosting providers, you’ll see that some providers give you root access, and others don’t. Usually, this dovetails with the hosting provider’s philosophy of how much they want to leave you alone. In some extreme cases, providers will only give you root access when you purchase a dedicated server! At NameHero, we […]
Are SEO Tools Worth Paying For? Not Really!
At some point in time as a web owner, you’ve surely thought about subscribing to the many SEO tools out there. The most famous one as of this writing, is Ahrefs and it costs $99 a month for the most basic subscription. There’s no doubt that Ahrefs is an impressive tool. It provides a depth […]
How Page Caching and WooCommerce Work Together
We’ve written a lot about server-side caching at NameHero. It allows your website to keep copies of generated pages and serve them to visitors without needing to recreate them over and over. Better speeds for your visitors and easier server loads on your end. What’s not to like? However, caching has traditionally been useful only […]
NameHero Gets Jetbackup From cPanel
We’ve been working on a better way to handle the backup process at NameHero, and we’ve finally settled on Jetbackup. Note that this is different from the DropMySite service, which is a premium add-on for NameHero accounts. DropMySite allows you to generate offsite backups. Jetbackup is a free service and comes with all accounts including […]
How To Take An Independent Softaculous Backup Of your WordPress Site
At this point, we already have quite a few backup tutorials on NameHero. We’ve talked about backing up the database, backing up the file system, as well as our policy of free nightly backups that we keep for one day. However, the above techniques are not WordPress specific. They backup databases and files that are […]
How To Add CTA Buttons To Your WordPress Page
The “Call to Action” or CTA is the very heard of every landing page. Marketers spend hours upon hours testing various CTA elements to get the maximum number of clickthroughs. But designing these buttons isn’t easy. Not everyone is a CSS expert, and it can be hard to insert them into your pages manually after […]
How To Insert A Footer Into WordPress
I’d earlier written about different ways to remove the footer of a WordPress post or page. The exact solution you need might work for one setup, and fail on another. However, since then, I’ve received questions from some people asking how to insert a footer into WordPress. Turns out the same method used to remove […]
What Are The Limits Of Shared Hosting?
On NameHero, we have a number of different plans for different types of hosting, ranging from ordinary shared hosting, to VPS and dedicated servers based in the cloud. What often isn’t clear is what exactly are the limitations on the first – shared hosting. Because of its very nature, shared hosting is complicated because of […]