How I Choose My Web Hosting If you’re wondering how I go about choosing web hosting companies for my sites, there are quite a number of features and issues I consider when making my choices. Of course, depending on the type of website you have, everyone’s situation may be a little different. However, the checklist […]
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While we frequently make recommendations for web hosting, it’s rare that I have to make a serious un-recommendation for a web host. Usually there are enough good things about a web hosting company that I can recommend them to at least some people. However, this is one of those rare situations where I must advise
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WordPress version 4.6 has now been released. And continuing with the recent trend of including some intriguing and helpful features with their new releases, WordPress 4.6 contains some noteworthy improvements. Also, continuing with their jazz theme, WordPress 4.6 is named Pepper—after the baritone saxophone player Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III. Streamlined Updates In WordPress 4.6,
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Since our last comparison study of web hosting live chat support response times, live chat has continued to grow in popularity—so much so, that it is now very rare for a web host not to offer it as a means of customer support. Unfortunately, there are still some hosting companies that only offer live chat
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For those of you looking to purchase web hosting for the first time, you may be asking yourself if there really is a difference in choosing one web host over another. Regular visitors to our website will know what my answer is to this question. But I’ve actually heard some people say that in 2016
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As another example of SiteGround continuing to push the envelope and constantly improving their already impressive web hosting services, they recently implemented a new backup and recovery system that allows them to restore an entire server’s data much more quickly and efficiently. Although it’s rare when an entire server needs to be restored, the situation
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In our latest video below, we recap our Best Managed WordPress Hosting Providers comparison study results. We wanted to see how some of the more expensive premium WordPress hosting plans stack up against each other. The WordPress web hosts we tested were WP Engine, Flywheel, Media Temple, and DreamHost/DreamPress 2. In addition to examining the
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WordCamp OC 2016 was held this past weekend July 9th and 10th. This year’s Orange County, CA event was held at UC Irvine. The new campus location provided more room and parking for the attendees. And as always, this WordCamp conference provided an ideal environment for WordPress developers, consultants, and bloggers to network, exchange ideas,
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A2 Hosting is now new and improved! Actually, we’ve always consider the web hosting at A2 Hosting to be top notch. You can check out our review here. What has been updated is the customer account interface at A2. Unveiled on the Fourth of July this past Monday, the new customer environment is being referred
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Final in a series of blog posts on highly functional yet lesser known WordPress plugins. While you might be familiar with Google Analytics and web stat programs such as Webalizer and AWStats, you might be surprised to find out that you can also receive stats on your WordPress site from various plugins that are available
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