Month: July 2024

July 22, 2024

WordPress Hosting

Reading Time: 10 minutes

Anyone who simply browses the Internet and / or peruses what it has to offer and doesn’t have a website on the Information superhighway is going to have a different prerogative with using the web. At least compared to those who do have a website and especially if that site is giving online visibility to their business as well as a means for customers to make purchases without visiting a brick & mortar storefront of any sort. If that’s the scenario for you and you website you’re not going to need to have the acronym SERPs explained to you, or why there is an ongoing need to improve website SEO. But maybe you’re not familiar with that grouping of characters, and if so we’ll explain; SERP stands for search engine results page. Let’s make an example. Someone who has a business selling custom sports team jerseys is going to know it’s important that their website is on the first page of SERP pages every time someone searches custom sports team jerseys *city name*. And preferably high up on that page, and ideally in the first spot. SEO optimization for a website is the determinant for whether or not that happens. You either have it, or you don’t. And if you don’t then your site isn’t going to be on that all-important first pages of SERPs, and definitely not at the top of it. For our example business owner that means it is VERY unlikely anyone is going to be ordering their custom sports team jerseys from the owner’s business. Being maximum visible online is of paramount importance for any business these days, because 9-plus times out of 10 that is where customers find their provider. This is how it is in the 21st century, and it’s going to be this way from now on. This is why WordPress SEO optimization is so important if you have a WordPress website for your business, and if so we highly recommend looking through a Yoast SEO guide. Yoast is definitely the best plugin for improving search engine rankings for a WordPress website, and that’s what we’re going to look at here with this...

July 15, 2024

WordPress Hosting

Reading Time: 8 minutes

Twenty plus years and counting since WordPress made its arrival and quickly became the platform of choice for anyone who felt that what they had to say was worth sharing on the World Wide Web. The reason it caught on so thoroughly was because of the simplicity it offered for publishing content in a form that was doable for the Internet, and since then WordPress expanded its horizons to become a website creation and launching platform too. Here we are in the middle of 2024 and it’s now possible to upgrade to WordPress 6.5. This new WordPress update is getting a good bit of fanfare, and for legitimate reasons as it has expanded those horizons yet again and is set to enable users to do even more with creating websites and publishing content online. For the first decade and then some of its existence the predominant value for WordPress was in its vast array of plugins that made customizing pages a cinch and really allowed you to add design flair to the site with no need for web design capability or savvy at all. That part of the appeal of WordPress is still there, but the new slate of WordPress 6.5 features takes this appeal to a whole new level. And does so based on so much more in the way of accessible functionality for people who choose to build a website with WordPress. That’s a good number of people, and more all the time considering the way that it’s not just businesses or bloggers that need to have a website these days. There are all sorts of creative ventures out there that need a website for promotion and visibility, and that’s just one of example of many where the growth and vitality of society and culture have so many people deciding they need a simple yet attractive – and inexpensive – website for themselves. We imagine they’ll be keen to get started with WordPress 6.5, and we’ll lay out why that is here with this blog entry where we go into dtail about the newest iteration of WordPress and what makes it so great. Super Enhancements The WordPress 6.5...

July 9, 2024

Domain Related

Reading Time: 12 minutes

There are all sorts of references in life to knowing what goes on when you’re not around, and of course there’s an entire industry built around remedying the problem and providing that insight for you. Remote cameras do work especially well for that, but when it comes to hosting a website there’s no camera or anything else of the sort that is going to make you aware of someone being unable to visit your website when you’re not monitoring it. Which is going to be upwards of 98% of the time, provided you’re a normal business owner. And we mention the business owners rather than the hobbyist website owner or any other type here because it is people with a WordPress website serving business interests that have most to lose when WordPress web accessibility is an issue. Most big corporations are going to have websites built on platforms that are much more mammoth – and expensive – than the relative simplicity that you get with WordPress. But there are plenty of websites serving businesses built on WordPress, and no matter what size of business you’re running it’s likely you don’t want to miss even one sale or order because you didn’t have any accessible WordPress site for whatever reason. The consensus is going to be that can’t happen, or at least everything that can be done to prevent it from happening should be done. The first thing to that end is to make sure you have reliable web hosting, and the best Managed WordPress Hosting in Canada is recommended. But from there it becomes a matter of taking advantage of the ability to have command of your website’s performance through the control panel and elsewhere, and doing what’s needed to improve WordPress web accessibility. That’s what we’ll look at here with this week’s blog entry, and it’s a topic that people with WordPress websites for business will definitely be interested in. All In, All the Time It’s fair to say that few if any people have checked on their website's accessibility level lately. But perhaps they should, as today it is very necessary for the web to be accessible to...

July 2, 2024

Hosting Related, Security

Reading Time: 9 minutes

People draw curtains or close blinds because they want privacy, and in other instances it’s because they’re looking to be kept out of the light of the sun. But when they lock doors they are taking it to a different level and no part of their interest is in shade from anything. They’re wanting to have an uncrossable barrier between themselves and the outside world, and one of the principal appeal points of being indoors is being able to have that. It can keep you safe, and it can also make sure your belongings stay in your possession. Both aspects of that can be related to when we frame that from the perspective of cyber security. The reason that website security protocols and the like are necessary is because there are more cyber security threats than ever before and without these protocols there will be unauthorized access to your website. And once the threat actors are in there is no telling what they might get up to. One of the more serious risks is data theft from a website, and assuring people you have the means of defending against that is going to be expected with VPS hosting Canada with 24/7 support. Web hosting providers need to have web security protocols built into their hosting servers and these days it’s necessary to offer this to prospective customers. We’re able to provide that assurance with out VPS web hosting here at 4GoodHosting, and we put a real emphasis on staying at the forefront with secure web hosting in Canada. So what we’re going to do with this week’s blog entry here is talk about the best data security practices for VPS servers. It is a topic that will be of interest for anyone who has a website for a growing business that is moving to VPS hosting because their current shared hosting arrangement isn’t a fit because of traffic spikes to the website – a good problem to have to be sure if you have an ecommerce website and you’re online to promote the growth of your business. More high-performance web hosting is where they need to be looking. Look To...