With Google’s major Core Web Vitals ranking update almost upon us, it’s time to reflect on whatever we can do to improve our page’s performance. I’ve written extensively about the importance of the Time to First Byte (TTFB), and its role in reducing the related metric of Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). For example, getting your […]
Accurately Measure Your Website Performance
A few weeks back, I was using web.dev to test the performance of some of the pages on my site. To my surprise, I got extremely negative results – it appears that some script was taking too long to complete. On further investigation, I found that it was because of Cloudflare’s “Bot Fight” mode that […]
How Useful Is SSH For Shared Hosting?
NameHero offers jailed SSH on its shared hosting plans. This means that you can use SSH on your site to issue commands, make connections from external services, and more. But how useful is it really? Is it for everyone, or merely for a few technically advanced individuals with specialized requirements? What is Jailed SSH for […]
Preventing Malware With WordPress Plugin Updates
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I wait for around 4 days before I update plugins on my site. The reason is simple – I want to avoid any bugs that come with new updates. So for me, 4 days is the minimum time I wait since the last change. You won’t believe […]
How To Add A Subdomain In Cloudflare
When you switch your DNS servers to Cloudflare, all your traffic to your main domain is proxied through Cloudflare. However, if you add subdomains, it doesn’t automatically route that traffic as well. If you’re on shared hosting, you probably have a number of websites on the same plan. All of these websites draw from the […]
WordPress Should Do More For Core Web Vitals
With Google’s Core Web Vitals’ deadline in May drawing every closer, website owners are becoming more and more desperate to get the “green” lines in their search consoles like this: Unfortunately, they’re finding that getting a good score on all these following metrics is really hard! Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) First […]
Is it Time to Disable Your RSS Feeds?
I perform a regular audit of the traffic hitting the origin server on my site WP-Tweaks, to see which requests are using the most resources. For a while now, I’ve noticed that feeds were the cause of a large number of requests. So if your website is: example.com/ Then your feed URL is likely: example.com/feed/ […]
The Dangers Of FTP – Use With Extreme Care (Or Avoid)!
NameHero allows you to have unlimited FTP users or your site. So as long as you’re not hosting something like a file storage site, you don’t have any restrictions on FTP usage. However, in today’s world, FTP should be persona-non-grata in your security apparatus. Ideally, you would avoid using FTP at all. And if you […]
3 Great Reasons To Use Subdomains
NameHero allows you to host unlimited subdomains with every hosting plan. You can use this freedom to streamline your site operations, and create a safeguard against some reputational hazards as explained below. A subdomain has many uses! 1. Use Subdomains for Email Most people just send e-mail from their primary domain. So if your website […]
Cloudflare vs QUIC.cloud – What’s The Difference?
Over at NameHero, we’re quite proud of our integration with LiteSpeed. It’s much faster compared to Apache, and brings a host of benefits such as dynamic caching. With the introduction of QUIC.cloud, the value of LiteSpeed web hosting has skyrocketed. And since the functionality is somewhat similar to Cloudflare, it’s natural to ask what the […]