Season 2 of the Web Hosting Cat Podcast is now here! For our first episode of the new season, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes returns for an exclusive follow up interview. In our previous talk with Gary, he covered topics such as https, negative SEO, content length, and more. In this new interview, Gary
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WP Engine’s managed WordPress hosting customers can now secure their websites for free using Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates. In the past, SSL was mostly used by ecommerce sites for added security. However, these days all websites can benefit from SSL—and in fact if you haven’t already done so, you should definitely consider switching to https.
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Today’s infographic compares traditional web hosting plans to the newer website creation packages. Each type of plan has its pros and cons. In this study we look at some specific advantages of web hosting and website creation, what you get with web hosting plans and website creation packages, the typical cost of both plans, and
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Today’s infographic takes a look at which web hosts have the best data backup and restore policies. While you should definitely be preforming your own website backups, your web hosting company can and should be a safety net just in case you need to restore your site. In our study, we looked at how often
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When you need web hosting for your small business website, certain features become even more critical. With a business website, there is added importance in having a highly accessible and properly functioning online presence. You should definitely look for the following five items in your search for a small business web hosting plan. 1. Proper
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Today’s infographic is a review of our Web Hosting Checklist. These key items should be considered when you’re shopping for a web hosting plan. We look at four major categories: Resources Tools Support Company History Within these categories, some of the items on our web hosting checklist include Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Data Transfer, Unlimited
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Today’s infographic is a review of our recent customer support response time testing of various web hosting companies. Specifically, we looked at how fast each web host responded via live chat support. To get a more accurate picture of how well each company performs, we did separate testing in the morning, afternoon, and nighttime hours.
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Today’s infographic takes a look at the pros and cons of the three main categories of web hosting: Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated Hosting. Shared Hosting Shared Hosting is the most economical option. And these days you can find some very high quality shared server plans. VPS Hosting If you find that a shared
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Today’s infographic highlights some of our Best Web Hosting Award winners for this year. Some of the categories we looked at are Best Business Hosting, Best Shared Hosting, Best Managed WordPress Hosting, Best Green Web Hosting, and Best Cheap Web Hosting. The Best Web Hosting Award Winners include InMotion Hosting, SiteGround, WP Engine, GreenGeeks, and
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WordCamp Los Angeles 2016 was again held at Cal State L.A. this past weekend. As always, this conference provided the perfect opportunity for all those involved with WordPress (i.e. Developers, Consultants, Bloggers) to network and pick up some new skills. Also as in past WordCamps here, there was a vendor area where most of the
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