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. […]
Stop Pushing JavaScript To The Footer
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. […]
How To Defer Inline JavaScript – Finally!
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 […]
What Cloud Hosting ISN’T (And What It IS)
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 […]
It’s Time for WordPress To Reduce Its Reliance On jQuery
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 […]
Customer Service Is Like Insurance For Your Site
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 […]
Website Migration Challenges: Free with NameHero!
Web host lock in is a real thing. For a lot of individuals, their website is a kind of “set it and forget it” deal. Particularly if it has been running on auto-drive for years. Businesses tend to be risk averse, and they usually stick to what they already have unless there’s a compelling reason […]
Why I Disabled AMP On My Website
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 […]
What Does “WordPress Hosting” Mean?
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 […]
When To Upgrade From The Starter NameHero Package?
The Starter Cloud is the most basic web hosting package from NameHero. Make no mistake – while it’s the cheapest of the NameHero plans, it’s super fast thanks to the LiteSpeed web server that provides in-built server caching. That’s something no other web host provides for basic plans – they usually reserve this functionality for […]