Web hosting company DreamHost recently took a stance against the Department of Justice to stand up for Internet privacy. According to their official blog, they’ve been involved in an on-going investigation against one of their customers for an anti-administration website. The Department of Justice served them a search warrant (PDF), with requests they considered unreasonable […]
How To Troubleshoot Email Delivery Problems
There is nothing more flustering when your emails don’t come through. This is one of our most “cursed out” reasons on phone support, and I really can’t blame people. If my email isn’t coming in as it should; I freak out! Email is essential to any business or individual so having problems is a lot […]
GoDaddy & Cloudflare Pull Hate Websites – Here’s Where We Stand
I’ve never wanted the job of having to police the Internet. I feel like one of the single greatest benefits of the Internet is being able to create a voice that can be heard anywhere in the world. That’s what originally got me building websites in the first place: I was amazed that content I […]
How To Speed Up DNS Propagation
When you first sign-up for web hosting or switch providers, there is a period of time called DNS propagation where your name servers have to update across the globe to display your website on your new hosting account. Depending on where you’re located geographically, this process can take anywhere from an hour up to 48 […]
The World’s Fastest Shared Web Hosting In 2017
I always cringed recommending people to shared web hosting. Selling web hosting for under $5/a month sets many companies up for failure as they have to overload their servers to turn a decent ROI (return on investment). Large brands such as GoDaddy have such heavy adverting budgets they have to get really crafty to optimize […]
What Is An Inode & Why It’s Important To Your Website
At NameHero we limit the number of Inodes per cPanel account (on Basic and Reseller hosting) to 100,000 (soft limit) and 250,000 (hard limit). What the heck is an inode and why is it limited? An inode is a data structure in a Unix-style file system that describes a filesystem object such as a file […]
How To Stop Email Spam With Apache SpamAssassin™
I hate spam. It’s a cancer that has plagued the Internet since its very existence. Unfortunately there is big money in spam and why it continues to flood our inboxes each and everyday. A whole new generation of spammers have risen in the last decade who are relentless about how they gain access to clean […]
Facebook & Google Teaming Up To Combat Advertiser Cloaking
After years of “pretending” it doesn’t exist, Facebook finally broke their silence yesterday in a press release announcing immediate action against advertisers that circumvent their review team in a practice commonly referred to as cloaking. They also mentioned they would be teaming up with industry leaders (i.e. Google) to help combat the problem. What Is […]
How To Disable WP-Cron In WordPress
One of the biggest support requests we see with WordPress has to deal with the wp-cron process. WP-Cron manages all the scheduled events in your WordPress website. It’s a very common cause for high CPU loads and memory consumption especially for websites with very large databases and/or traffic. By default WordPress is setup to call […]
The Truth About Unlimited Bandwidth
In the mid 2000s web hosting companies started to offer unlimited bandwidth with their packages and it created quite the stir throughout the industry. Personally, I remember when Host Gator made the announcement that all of their shared hosting packages would not only include unlimited bandwidth but also unlimited disk space. The “technical minded” audience […]