Managed WordPress hosting is an option for professional bloggers who need to spend more time generating content than managing the mechanical aspects of their site. WordPress has become a very popular platform for many people seeking a simple way of running a website that can be updated easily and quickly, and is responsive to changing trends. However, it has some disadvantages, …
SEO Web Hosting Services – A Definitive Guide to SEO Hosting
This definitive guide to choosing SEO web hosting services covers the important factors you should consider, while maintaining a sense of proportion in what you should expect from a commercial hosting service. What is SEO Web Hosting? SEO web hosting services refers to accounts that offer a number of different IP addresses. Search engines are believed to give a higher ranking to …
What is CDN: Why it is Needed for Blog Speed Optimization?
What is CDN, and why should you use it when there are several front-end web performance optimization (WPO) solutions available to speed up WordPress? Caching plugins such as W3 Total Cache can speed up server speed and WordPress download times, so why should a content distribution network be required for blog speed optimization? There are few doubts that slow-loading websites and …
How Web Servers Work and the Importance of Location
Before discussing how web servers work, it is first necessary to understand what a server is and how it affects the way your website or blog works. Fundamentally, a web server passes the information and data needed for you to run your website or blog onto your terminal, whether that is a PC, a Mac or a portable device such as a cell phone or tablet. What is a Server? Let's begin by …
Busting the Myth Behind ‘Unlimited’ Web Hosting
When busting the myth behind unlimited web hosting, it's important to be sure about what we are discussing and what type of web hosting is involved. It's also important to get the definitions right! Unless we are all on the same page regarding the meaning of the words we are using, then there is likely to be a great deal of confusion – although we have that already! Unlimited web …
What is the Ideal Host for Your Website?
Finding the ideal host for your website means understanding your website's needs from the bottom up. This means understanding the kind of content you will deliver, as well as the expected demographic of your users. Cheap web hosting services might be found for private blogs and websites, but running a site that provides any significant amount of content means considering things like …
Shared Web Hosting: Does it Affect Search Engine Ranking?
There is a concern that shared web hosting can affect your search engine ranking. This concern arises largely from the possibility that your web host could assign you an IP address that is also used by porn and spam websites. This is a genuine concern and one that we shall discuss here. Your web host assigns you an IP address for your website. If you have paid for your own IP …
