With Google’s latest “Page Experience” update, a lot of websites that heavily invested in AMP are going to find the return on that investment severely diminished. This is for two reasons. First, the emergence of the various facets of page speed as ranking factors has propelled website owners to pay a lot of attention to […]
Three Trends From The Wave Of “Edge” Web Hosting
The past year has seen a new trend in web hosting – pushing more and more computing to edge nodes away from the origin web server. It’s still in its infancy, but as it takes hold, it’ll change traditional web hosting forever. EDGE Hosting – One Step Beyond CDNs A traditional CDN just hosts dynamic […]
QUIC.cloud With NameHero Is Production Ready! Pricing Changes
On the 2nd of June 2021, QUIC.cloud finally exited beta and entered production status. With this, they’ve finalized their pricing, introduced new regional pricing, and are having a 50% discount on data transfer till the end of the year. Also, it becomes the first CDN to support HTTP/3 both for connections to the origin server, […]
Why Facebook Can’t Replace a Website
Every business needs an online presence. These days, I’ve seen more and more small business owners outsource their online presence to 3rd party social media companies like Facebook and Instagram. Sometimes when meeting a proprietor in person, I ask them for their website – and they tell me to find them on Facebook! Such organizations […]
How Much Security Should Your Web Host Provide?
Does your web host have a responsibility to secure your website, or is their job limited to providing you with the hosting space and bandwidth? There’s no consensus on the answer. Some hosts are basic web hosting with no frills. Others – like NameHero – take security very seriously. We institute a host of protections […]
Why We Can’t Replace Google Analytics Just Yet
Ten years ago, I was all about Google. I would jump on their new products, be the early “beta” adopter for all their projects, and thought that they should take over more stuff. These days it’s different. I’m trying to de-Googlify my life as much as possible. But it isn’t easy – in part because […]
How To Add An X-Robots-Tag Header To Affiliate Links
In mid-2019, I had written a post about Google’s decision to stop supporting “noindex” directives in robots.txt. My feelings on the subject haven’t changed since then – the robots.txt should be the right place for this tag, as this directive is exclusive to robots. But Google powered ahead anyway, so I have no choice but […]
How To Identify And Merge Pages In Your Website
We tend to think of our sites as constantly growing. More pages. More content. And that is indeed true for certain types of domains. For example, news sites will always be generating more stuff. The same is true for social media or opinion bloggers. But not all sites need to be constantly growing. Some can […]
How NameHero Breaks The “Shared Hosting” Mold
I’d recently written about how NameHero’s Starter plan beats the competition. But Shared hosting itself has gotten a bad rap over the years. And for good reason! If you read the Reddit threads for advice, you’ll be told to avoid shared hosting at all costs. This is why NameHero’s web hosting plans offer something different […]
How NameHero NVMe Drives Speed Up Hosting
When it comes to storage, most people only think about SSD vs HDD. SSDs are fast, HDDs are slow. And web hosting that promises the former over the latter is better. And that’s it. However, more recent technology updates have improved the performance of SSDs – and the technology to watch is NVMe drives. It […]