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How much does it cost to host a website?

Friday, January 18th, 2019

How much does it cost to host a website? That’s a leading question and one that has a number of answers. It depends very much on what type of website, what type of public, and what kind of budget you have. There are various types of web hosting packages available, each with different cost implications. […]

Security Lessons from Sucuri 2016 Report

Friday, May 20th, 2016

The online security firm Sucuri have just released their 2016 Q1 Websites Hacked report, which serves really well as a sort of ‘state of the union’ address in terms of website security for small-medium websites. Sucuri specialise in security tools, scanning, and repairing hacked sites, and because of the free tools they provide (like their […]

Hosting – how important is the location of your server for S.E.O?

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

When choosing a hosting account, there are a huge range of providers worldwide, but what effect does it have on search engine optimisation, if you choose a website hosting service with servers in a different country to your main market? Will you rank better in local search if your site is hosted on a server […]

Simple Word Press Speed Tip: Check your plugins for load time

Wednesday, June 25th, 2014

One problem many WordPress webmasters run into is site loading times. This isn’t because there’s something particular or inherently slow about WordPress – after all, some of the biggest and fastest sites in the world are run using WordPress; often there are speed problems for a combination of reasons: many WordPress sites are run on […]

WordPress joins the protest against Protect IP / SOPA

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

WordPress has mushroomed in size over the last couple of years, and its estimated that 22 in every 100 new domains registered in the States are running wordpress. And it’s not only small bloggers and internet marketers running the software – they claim that 14.7% of the top million websites are using their free open […]