WooCommerce Hosting: E-commerce Optimized
WooCommerce powers a big chunk of the online stores running today. It is free, it plugs into WordPress, and it can do almost anything an e-commerce site needs. The catch is that it is heavier than a regular WordPress site, and generic hosting often falls short. This guide covers what makes WooCommerce hosting different, what […]
Two-Factor Authentication: Add a Security Layer
Two-factor authentication has gone from a security feature for paranoid technical users to a standard expectation for any account that matters. Banking, email, social media, business tools. The major services all offer it. The major security incidents almost universally would have been prevented by it. For website owners, 2FA matters in two directions. Protecting your […]
WordPress Maintenance: Updates, Backups, Security
WordPress powers more than 40 percent of the websites on the internet. That ubiquity has consequences. WordPress is the most attacked platform on the web because it is the most common. WordPress plugins have vulnerabilities discovered constantly. WordPress sites that do not get maintained get hacked, broken, or both. The good news is that WordPress […]
Free SSL vs Paid SSL: What’s the Difference?
For years, SSL certificates were something you paid for. The cheapest options ran $10 to $30 per year. The more involved ones could cost hundreds. Every site that wanted HTTPS paid up. Then Let’s Encrypt launched in 2016. It offered free domain-validated certificates with automated issuance and renewal. The hosting industry moved to support it, […]
Managed WordPress Hosting: Optimized for WordPress
WordPress runs over 40 percent of the websites on the internet. That kind of dominance has created a whole industry of hosting that does one thing and does it well: run WordPress sites better than generic hosting can. Managed WordPress hosting costs more than regular shared or VPS hosting. The real question is if the […]
Strong Passwords: Create Unbreakable Credentials
Passwords are still the foundation of most online security despite decades of attempts to replace them. Every account, every login, every protected resource depends on a password being secret and strong. The whole system breaks down if the password is weak or known. Most people know they should use strong passwords. Most people do not […]
Annual Website Maintenance: Yearly Overhaul
The annual maintenance review is the biggest commitment in the maintenance calendar. Once a year, you step back from the day-to-day and look at the site as a whole. The big picture stuff. The strategic questions. The decisions that shape the next twelve months. Annual maintenance is not about tasks that recur. It is about […]
SSL Certificate: What It Is & Why You Need One
The little lock icon next to your website’s URL is doing more work than most site owners realize. It tells visitors that the connection between their browser and your site is encrypted. It tells search engines that you take security seriously. It tells customers that their data is not being broadcast in plain text across […]
Cloud Hosting: Scalable & Reliable
Cloud hosting changed how websites get online. Before the cloud, you had to guess how much hardware your site would need and pray you got it right. Buy too little and your site crashes when traffic shows up. Buy too much and you waste money on idle servers. Cloud hosting flipped that model. You pay […]
Phishing on Your Site: Prevent Email Scams
Phishing attacks usually get framed as something that happens to your inbox. Suspicious emails pretending to be from banks or shipping companies trying to steal your credentials. The reality is that phishing also happens on websites, often using compromised sites as platforms for the attacks. If your site gets used for phishing, your visitors get […]