Caching is an important part of any website’s performance strategy. Especially for systems like WordPress, which heavily rely on dynamic, database-powered pages. It dramatically reduces the system resources required to serve a page, leading to faster load times for end-users, and makes everyone happy. However, not all caches are built equally. There are essentially two […]
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When To Use Public JavaScript Libraries
Public JavaScript CDNs are servers maintained by large entities that serve popular libraries to users around the world. These CDNs use a geographically distributed architecture to deliver static assets from servers closest to users. As a result, they’re usually a lot more efficient than serving it from your own origin server. However, the truth is […]
How To Deploy Content Closer To Your Users
While the web is supposed to function in a uniform manner regardless of where you access it from, it rarely lives up to those ideals. In the real world, pages are fast or slow depending on where you access them from. Some connections are fast, and some are slow. And while in general, closer servers […]
Should You Buy A Special Backup Plan For Your Website?
The few people I know who own a website are pretty casual about their backup strategies. I don’t blame them – unlike us who live and breathe in the industry, most individuals have other stuff to do in their life, and don’t spend time thinking about “best practices” or “worst-case scenarios”. Nevertheless, if you or […]
Should You Purchase Plugins From CodeCanyon?
The other day I saw what I thought was a cool table plugin on CodeCanyon. Now since I personally display a lot of data on my website, tables are a particularly interesting topic for me. I’ve written about two table plugins on NameHero already, here and here, and am always on the lookout for better […]
One Year Of Gutenberg – I Take It All Back!
It’s been almost exactly one year since Automatic released Gutenberg – the new text editor on WordPress, and I’ve been using it almost continuously since then. When it first came out, I found it lacking in many respects and wrote a blog post on how annoyed I was. Since then however, a lot of things […]
Why I Won’t Use Google’s “Site Kit” for WordPress
A little over a month ago on the 31st of October, Google released “Site Kit” for WordPress. It blends together all of Google’s tools like Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed insights, and presents their results together in the WordPress report screen. It’s a neat idea, and I can see where they’re going with it. WordPress […]
NameHero Ranked Best WordPress Hosting For 2020
It brings me great joy to inform you NameHero was recently rated Number ONE WordPress Web Host for 2020 by WordPress expert and popular YouTuber Darrel Wilson. Darrel tested the most popular companies in the industry for a total of 60 days measuring speed, uptime, customer service, etc. NameHero’s Web Hosting outranked SiteGround, A2Hosting, GreenGeeks, […]
Managing The LiteSpeed Cache From cPanel
One of the biggest benefits of NameHero is the server-based caching. This is in-built into the hosting service with the LiteSpeed web server, and delivers dramatic performance gains if you have a relatively static site like most people. Keep in mind that this is superior to the normal caching plugins for platforms like WordPress such […]
How To Generate An AutoSSL In cPanel With NameHero
Way back towards the end of 2016, we at NameHero decided to offer free SSL certifications via a partnership with Let’s Encrypt. This was at least two years before Google pressured the rest of the web hosting industry into switching to HTTPS for hosting reasons. Like so many other things, NameHero was there well before […]