If you’re looking to create your first website and publish it online, there are a number of web hosts that cater to beginners. You may have seen ads on television by companies like 1&1 Hosting that have specific hosting plans that try to streamline and simplify the process of creating your own website and getting
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There’s no question about it. The new trend of web hosting companies offering premium or premier support services continues to grow. I’ve never been in favor of paying extra fees to get support for my hosting. Seems to me, when you pay for your web hosting package, the best quality support should be included. However,
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Recently, someone referred me to a web hosting company that specializes in WordPress hosting. More specifically, this company offers managed web hosting. Think of managed hosting as a premium or personalized support plan for your website. In the case of WP Engine (the company I was referred to), your web hosting does include a lot
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Last week we took a look at some results from my customer support test based on live chat support response times. Now, let’s take a look at some of the content and types of responses I received from the various web hosting companies. In this particular test, the question was a simple but important one:
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Fresh from their recent server/network upgrades, InMotion Hosting has now also updated their own website. While much of the information remains the same, their site does now have a more modern user-friendly appearance. That’s not to say that there isn’t some new additional material to check out—there is. Their about us page now includes a
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As I’ve written about before, customer support is one of the most important ingredients of a great web host. Features, value, and data center performance are definitely needed, but good customer support is vital to having a successful web hosting experience. While it can be difficult to determine how great someone’s customer support is before
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While everyone want to save money, I recently came across an interesting article describing the horrors experienced as a result of cheap web hosting. Now, by cheap web hosting I don’t mean the discounted packages you can get with a proven hosting provider. What we’re dealing with here is the almost free (or free in
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If you’re running an ecommerce website or have sensitive information being sent to your site, then you definitely need to have SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt the data for added protection. A lot of web hosting companies now provide Shared SSL free with you hosting plan. However, in order to utilize Shared SSL you
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When choosing web hosting, I usually recommend going with a more established well-known company instead of some newer or unheard of host. While even the more familiar names can lay an egg sometimes, this strategy has worked out well for me. That being said, there are certainly many fine web hosting companies that are newer
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When you get cPanel web hosting, you get access to a number of tools to help with your email accounts—see my previous post on cPanel Email Functions. One of the key tools you can access from cPanel is SpamAssassin. Everybody has to deal with Spam at some point, and Spam Assassin can help to reduce
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