If you’d like to find out where the various web hosting companies have their data centers, check out our Web Hosting Data Center Location Guide. Considering that website speed is increasingly more important, being able to select your web server location is a feature that can be very useful. We’ve listed the data center locations
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Here’s a very interesting comparison between two very diverse web hosting companies. Between DreamHost and Arvixe, just about any kind of web hosting plan you could imagine is available. For our comparison here we’ll focus on the shared hosting plans of both. Arvixe and DreamHost both provide great features with their hosting plans. There are
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How does Arvixe stack up against the big dog GoDaddy? Here’s how—actually very well. While Arvixe may not be as well-known as GoDaddy, they also provide a full range of web hosting plans for all types of websites. GoDaddy has the advantage of offering their industry leading domain name management services. However, when it comes
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As a follow up to my post on SSL certificates, I recently decided to implement SSL with a new WordPress website I created. It’s definitely less of a headache starting out with SSL on your site as opposed to adding it to an existing website that’s been around for a number of years. For new
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For those of you interested, I have now posted my review of Arvixe hosting. Arvixe offers an impressive lineup of web hosting plans, and you’ll be happy to know that they provide plenty of value in their hosting packages. I invite you to read my review for complete details on Arvixe. Here are some of
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With web hosting company HostGator recently raising prices on their Shared and WordPress Hosting plans, sighting rising costs, we thought it was a good time to take a look across the board at web hosting pricing here in 2015. Earlier this year, we pointed out that some web hosts had indeed surprisingly raised their prices—for
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With the latest version of WordPress (4.3) just released, WP Engine has introduced a new feature with their managed WordPress hosting that will provide customers with more control over their updates. WP Engine has always provided managed upgrades to WordPress. However, in the past you had to wait for them to perform their extensive updating
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In a surprise move, HostGator has announced that due to a changing hosting industry and increased costs, effective August 25, 2015, they are raising the prices of their hosting plans across the board (Hatchling, Baby, and Business Plans included). Although a number of web hosting companies did raise prices earlier this year, things seemed to
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WordPress version 4.3 has now been officially released. Continuing with their jazz greats theme, this new intermediate release is named after Billie Holiday. And after updating and trying it out, I have to say that I definitely like the new features that have been added in WordPress 4.3. Customizing Menus Working with menus has been
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Usually, getting something for free is a good thing. However, when you’re talking about websites and web hosting, that isn’t necessarily the case. Here’s why. So I’m in the car listening to the radio the other day when I hear a commercial for one of those “get a website for free” offers. While some people
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