Posts Tagged ‘Hosting’
Arithmetic: would you spend $500 to save $10?
If you have really terrible hosting it can cost you Lost leads Lower search engine ranking Abandoned site visits Lost sales Lost customer If you have “Inexpensive,” but really terrible hosting it can also cost you… Additional hours of development time Because somebody’s got to spend time on the phone with your host’s tech support,…
Read MoreWe’ve added Cloudways managed VPS hosting to our list of recommended products and services
We’ve added Cloudways to our list of recommended products and services. We’re a little late to the VPS market as most of our small-business clients don’t need the kind of horsepower you can get with a good VPS. And to be honest, until fairly recently managing your own VPS involved considerable system-administration skills — something…
Read MoreReviewSignal’s WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks for 2019 are out!
Every year SignalReview runs a series of long-term benchmark tests on a wide array of hosting companies, ranging from bottom-of-the-barrel shared hosting to very high-end enterprise hosting. I particularly appreciate this in-depth review because so many others focus entirely on the bottom-of-the-barrel, cheapest offerings from every provider. That might be fine for hobby, personal, or…
Read MoreShould you stream audio or video from your shared hosting account?
It’s not a good idea to stream audio or video directly from your WordPress website. Especially on shared hosting. Uploading may be easy for you but can be glitchy for your users, and costly for mobile users on limited data plans. On a Facebook group for new WordPress users someone asked “Generic Website questions pertaining…
Read MoreBelts and suspenders, eggs in one basket, backup plans, and A2Hosting ransomware!
The popular A2Hosting company is struggling with a ransomware attack that’s knocked quite a few of their Windows-server clients offline. While we’ve recommended A2Hosting to some of our WordPress clients we direct them to Linux hosting so they’re unlikely to have been affected by this attack. Ugh! Ransomware is a serious problem for smaller ISPs…
Read MoreMoving websites on shared hosting is easy, moving email on shared hosting is hard so…
This post is about choosing a 3rd party to host your company’s email instead of using the free email service that comes with almost all shared hosting plans. I got a call on Friday from a former client, a small, highly-technical business with a handful of very large, old-school Fortune 100 customers. Their site and…
Read MoreThe Worst SiteGround Hosting is Better than the Best GoDaddy Shared Hosting
I’m going to be real blunt here and say don’t use GoDaddy for shared hosting. Just don’t. I’m going to go further and say if you are using GoDaddy for shared hosting stop. Just stop. I hate saying it because there are some very nice people at GoDaddy. Great support people. The company is really committed to WordPress…
Read MoreThe best three low-cost hosting plans as rated by ReviewSignal
We don’t do web hosting here at RealBasics.com — it’s part of our “it’s your website” philosophy! But we do have opinions and we do like to make recommendations. It’s always nice to see serious, benchmarked tests of hosting companies around the internet. And even nicer to see that two of our favorites made…
Read MoreOur Web Hosting Recommendations for 2016
We’re able to work with almost* all hosting companies the following companies are well regarded in the industry for speed and service, and not known for either limiting service to get you to upgrade or for other sales-driven annoyances. SiteGround The basic StartUp package would be good for your crisis management site but if you’re planning to…
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