Posts Tagged ‘Hosting’
Moving 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…
Read MoreShould You Use Round Cube vs Horde vs Squirrel Mail for Email or Should You…?
Question from a client: [My Hosting Company] is asking to select default between Round Cube, Horde, and Squirrel Mail for the email… Not sure which too choose? For decades now most web hosting companies include email with their server plans. And all of them offer the same three, decades old web mail clients as well: RoundCube, Horde,…
Read MoreThree hosting companies I’m recommending
Last month I un-recommended one particular hosting company. After some careful research I’m recommending three others. All three 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 (https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm) The basic StartUp package would be good for…
Read MoreGoDaddy Shared Hosting: Slower than a First-Generation Thumb Drive?
I have a very tough time speaking ill of others but I’ve concluded that GoDaddy is no longer a good choice for WordPress website hosting. Some time since the beginning of they year they began throttling their cPanel/Linux disk I/O down to one megabyte per second! This is very slow! To a point that, as forensic computer…
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