Category: WordPress Hosting
Reading Time: 9 minutes Before the advent of the Internet anyone who wanted to operate a business that involved selling goods of any sort needed to have an actual physical storefront. Meaning someone needed to be staffing it all times, and your customer base tended to be people who were close by. Plus they’d need to be leasing the property unless they owned it, but most don’t have that advantage when they’re just starting out. But now that we all have the connectivity of the world wide web one advantage that every small business retailer has is that they can sell their products online if that’s what they choose to do. This leads to us looking at WooCommerce hosting in Canada. The reason being that WooCommerce is the top WordPress plugin for online stores, and it’s really become almost a default option for anyone who is putting together an online store and skipping all the challenges and expenses that come with having an actual store. Of course many retailers will be doing both, but generally those retailers will have enough of an established client base that they don’t need to be fine-tuning their approach to online retail. Those who have smaller operations - and are likely to stay smaller - are going to be the ones who benefit most from having the WooCommerce plugin installed for their website. Here at 4GoodHosting we are as good a choice as any for the best WooCommerce hosting in Canada, and especially if you choose to go with Managed WordPress hosting for your small business website if it’s built on the WordPress platform. You continue to be free to have whichever plugins you like installed on your site, but the ongoing optimization of it and everything needed for maximum performance, security, and infrastructure revisioning is taken care of for you by your Canadian hosting provider. There’s likely to already be wind in your sails if you’re just starting out, and especially if you’ve got a product or service that’s bound to be attractive to people once they become aware of you making it available for purchase online. The WooCommerce plugin will help you manage those sales most effectively,...
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Reading Time: 8 minutes From a young age it’s ingrained in most of us that achievement is important, and that’s why from Grade 1 onwards it’s a fairly big deal when we receive our report card from school. Getting good grades can fast-track you towards success, but of course there are other ways of getting there and you certainly aren’t doomed if you didn’t have good grades coming out of high school. Once you enter the working world, however, there will be scores that are more definitive. If you’re in business for yourself and leaning on a website for the success of that business then your core web vitals score is one of them and there’s a connection between it and the best hosting for faster WordPress websites in Canada. Managed WordPress hosting makes that available for anyone who has that type of business website, and many people do based on the track record for simplicity and ease of use / construction that WordPress is known for. Better search engine optimization is always going to be the primary means of having your site come up higher in SERPs, and the business owners can also look to WordPress hosting for better SEO performance. That’s a subject that’s been gone over at length though, and so we’ll keep the focus here on core web vitals scores. It’s not the most household term in digital marketing and website optimization so let’s get a definition before we move any further, Your site’s core web vitals score is going to be the sum of 3 parts, which are: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) - A measurement of how long it takes for the largest content element on the page to load Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) - Measuring how much the page layout moves around unexpectedly as it loads. Like images or buttons shifting Interaction to Next Paint (INP) - A measurement of how much time is needed between when a user initiates any interaction to when the next visual update is shown on the screen Your site’s core web vitals score is going to be based on how well you do with each of these three criteria, and the truth...
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Reading Time: 11 minutes Operating budgets are rarely if ever unlimited for most businesses when they are newer, and that’s always going to be the case. There are places that corners can be cut, but if you are in any type of online retail or service sphere then your web hosting isn’t going to be one of them. These businesses will be leaning on their website a lot more heavily than other ones, and knowing that the site is ready to display for any viewer at any time and anywhere is super important. Because those visitors are the people who become your customers, and that’s going to be true in a lot of ways for businesses that have a brick n’ mortar storefront too. Your website tends to be everything, and this leads a lot of owners to look into the dedicated server in Canada price. It is fairly common for those business owners to be mindful of every dollar spent as part of an operating budget, but many of them will know in advance that having the type of superior reliability and resource availability that a dedicated server provides is well worth paying more. And really it often turns out to be money well spent, especially for businesses that know they’re building something good and that the volume of site visitors is going to explode as they do increasingly well with making a name for themselves. This isn’t traffic that means you spend way too much time getting home from work, and instead it’s the traffic that you want to be experiencing. Despite growth and better profitability though it’s not a guarantee that a business can be more carefree about how much they spend on what they need to be in business online. This is why businesses that are doing reasonably well with their eCommerce may still be looking for a cheap dedicated server in Canada. So what we’ll do with this week’s entry is explain what you should be paying for dedicated server web hosting along with what you can expect to receive based on the fact you’re paying more to give your website it’s own exclusive server. Investment in Guaranteed Visibility...
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Reading Time: 10 minutes The long-standing way of thinking as to whether or not something is reliable, or someone is reliable is different. If something is reliable then the tool, implement, or device is going to work, while that someone is a person you can count on that person to be available and capable when you need them. Any business website will need to have secure hosting for brand reputation, but web hosting isn’t a tool, an implement or a device either. It’s really more of a resource for businesses and personal interest ventures. And an invaluable one for businesses because without it your website is nowhere to be found. There is also a lot that goes into building a brand for businesses, and the way any of them make themselves visible and identifiable online is a core part of having a legit brand. You can say quite fairly that your web hosting is not as much of a part of your brands as your logo or other visuals, for example, but it is something of a part of it in a much more indirect way. And it ties back into the idea of being reliable, but in this case it has more to do with how prospective customers expect that you’ll have yourself and your products/services/whatever readily available for them to look over and compare online. They expect you to be reliable in this way. Every site that allows for transactions via the site is going to need to have the right protocols in place, and that starts with SSL certificates. You may also need to be considering data privacy compliances as per PIPEDA, and GDPR regulations. Of course your brand would suffer if there were any repeated incidents of sensitive data being taken after your site is the result of a cyber security attack, and one thing we like to tell new customers with a business site in mind is that one of the many advantages of VPS hosting is that there’s a higher tier of website security that comes with that type of webs hosting. What we’ll do with this week’s entry is look at how your hosting choices and factor...
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Reading Time: 9 minutes The ‘buy local, support local’ movements are ones that are well entrenched across Canada and it is indeed good if you can see to it the money stays in the local community and supports the people who live there. If this is seen strictly in the consumerist sense then there is a lot to be said for it and this is why many people will shop at Mom & Pop shops rather than a big box store. But admirable altruistic intentions aside there is also a lot to be said about getting your website hosted via a data centre that’s local too. The gains there have nothing to do with the health of the local economy, however, and so there’s no connection between that and local web hosting solutions for Canadian businesses. The gain here is going to have nothing to do with dollars at all, although in a roundabout way you could make the argument it does if you have an eCommerce website hosted on one of those local web hosting packages. That will be true if you’re selling more of whatever it is you sell online because the local data centres are delivering loaded web pages more readily for customers who are ready to buy. There are definitely SEO benefits of hosting a site locally too, and between the ability to have pages loading faster and getting better SEO it’s a pretty convincing argument to go with local web hosting if possible. More often than not the price you’re going to pay for web hosting is going to be very similar to what you’d pay for more nationwide providers anyways. Stronger data privacy is also part of the advantages you get when your web hosting provider has your site hosted locally and server requests are being handled and responded to via a local data centre. This makes it an even better choice for secure hosting options for city-focused websites. Here at 4GoodHosting we have 2 state-of-the-art data centres in both B.C. and Ontario and this allows us to have optimized local web hosting for all cities and areas in the Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto areas. Folks just...
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Reading Time: 11 minutes If you’re a creative or artist of any sort then you’re alive in an age where it’s never been easier to put your creativity or artwork on display for all to see. That’s entirely attributable to the World Wide Web, and it’s why nearly every independent artist will have their own website. They’ll fully grasp the necessity of having one, and they’ll know that it’s best if their site is optimized for maximum visibility with the audience they’re looking to capture. This is very much true for burgeoning musicians too, and so many of artists of all types will like the simplicity and affordability of putting together a WordPress website. Pairing it with managed WordPress hosting in Canada is likely the best choice if they want to be assured of that optimization. That’s because with managed hosting everything that you need for optimizing a site and having it working at its best is taken care of for you. That becomes the responsibility of the Canadian web hosting provider, and the creative can then expect to get what they pay for with WordPress hosting for artists. Ongoing SEO audits of the site is going to be a big part of the appeal here, and that will be especially true if the artist, creative, photographer or musician is aiming to become more well known and / or have better visibility with the right type of people. If they’re aiming to ‘get noticed’ - as the expression goes - then having good website SEO is important. Another consideration will be be having high-speed hosting, and this will be even more of a need if the artist’s website features dynamic multimedia content. Musicians will be the best example here, as they’ll probably have snippets of songs that can be played for site visitors and they will not want to have any chance of that snippet not streaming properly for anyone wishing to listen to it. That one listener who has their stream interrupted because of slow connectivity on a shared hosting plan may be the one who has the ability to open doors for you, and that’s why it may be best to move...
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Size is often the primary determinant in whether or not something ‘fits’ for us. But if that’s to apply for web development then the size is only a part of whether the site has a good fit with the web hosting it’s sitting on. Resource availability and platform stability are really the two more pivotal factors in that. The one that is going to be factoring in most prominently for those in the standard shared hosting vs VPS hosting evaluation is if your site is going to have those needed resources if you go with the shared option. But for web developers who are assembling a business website the top issue is usually application stability. We’ve got your best choice for Linux hosting for developers and agencies right here. In a lot of way Linux hosting is something of the default option for web hosting, and it’s the platform that most Canadian web hosting providers will put the bulk of their investment into as so many of their customers will choose to have it. For those with a small business website it often makes sense to go with managed WordPress hosting Linux because the managed part of that means that you’re paying for the web host to oversee the optimization of your website at all times. Without getting into the workings of why that’s a good thing, you can just understand that it’s going to mean greater numbers of potential customers coming into your website for all sorts of reasons. Linux hosting is going to be legit nomination for the best hosting for WordPress developers, and there are specific aspects of the platform that really lend itself to the maximum efficient deployment of WordPress. So that’s what we’ll look at with this week’s blog entry here, going over all the reasons why developers prefer Linux hosting for application stability. Plugins and applications are central to most WordPress sites nowadays and are a often a big part of their core functionality. So this is something that many DIY webmasters will likely take an interest in if they are at the start-out stage of the web development process. PIPEDA compliant hosting for...
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Here in Vancouver we are a port city, so seeing stack upon stack of containers at the port on Burrard Inlet just outside downtown is normal for us. But those aren’t the types containers we’re talking about if the subject is web development for WordPress sites. We’re very familiar with those types of containers to based on the fact that we’re one of the best Canadian web hosting providers. Web development isn’t our area of expertise, but the nature of what we do means there’s plenty of crossover with these subject matters. We are who you want to look to if you’re needing affordable WordPress hosting solutions, and containers can represent and option to traditional hosting for WordPress. There are plenty of small businesses with basic WordPress websites that will be fine with those traditional hosting plans though, and for a good many of them shared web hosting will meet their needs just fine. At the same time for sites that are little bigger and have a lot more riding on them it’s often a situation here 4GoodHosting managed WordPress plans are going to be the better choice. That’s because nearly the entirety of everything needed for ongoing website optimization and regular audits for security and other aims is taken care of by the web hosting provider. If you are a business and you’d prefer to be preoccupied elsewhere while knowing your site is being optimized at all times then managed web hosting is best. For some, however, it may be that they have someone on staff that has a sufficient amount of web design knowledge and ability. If so then it may be that using containers can be a realistic approach to getting more out of your site setup as compared to just keeping it on traditional hosting. So what we’ll provide with this week’s blog entry here is an evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of using containers or going with with a traditional hosting arrangement. Before doing what we’ll quickly mention as well that if your site is handling eCommerce transactions then you may need to be ensuring you have PIPEDA compliant hosting in Canada too. Best...
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Having wind in your sails means that you have resources working to your advantage in a natural way, and beyond the nautical reference as the literal meaning to that it can be applied to web development and WordPress websites too. If you are deploying WordPress and you’re putting something together that’s beyond a basic blog publishing platform for the website then there are going to be times where it’s going to be advantageous to be benefitting from natural momentum. In this instance we’re using the analogy to talk about CI/CD Workflows and with this week’s blog entry here we will go into detail about how managed WordPress hosting with CI/CD is such a good choice for WordPress site development. These workflows automate the software development lifecycle, from code commit to production deployment, and what’s most notable in the context of WordPress development for a site is the ability to be facilitating continuous deployment. All of that will be dependent on the developer committing code to a shared repository, and this is what’s meant when someone is said to have ‘established the pipeline’ for WordPress deployment. Managed hosting for developers tends to be a better choice because there are going to be frameworks in place via the web hosting provider that make all of this a more expedited process. The builder is still going to need to have a fair degree of WordPress web development savvy, however, and we’ll assume that applies to you if you’re going to be reading further here. Manual approval is going to be required for automated deployment to production too, but once you’re at the point along the production timeline then it tends to be clear sailing the rest of the way. We’ll stop with the seafaring references now and get right into focusing on the best approaches to using these workflows, along with why it’s best to do so when you’re already got the site sitting on a managed web hosting arrangement. We’ve talked about the need for PIPEDA compliant hosting in Canada in previous entries here as well, and a quick reminder that if your site is going to be serving eCommerce interests and...
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Reading Time: 9 minutes It is said that everything gets its start somewhere, and unless we’re talking about something ethereal, existential, or unexplainable then that tends to be true. The source of whatever it is that’s being discussed is going to have great significance for the quality of what’s being delivered from that source. This is true for digital content and the ideal functionality of websites. Where that page content and similar site components get their start is from the site database, and if having a site that can operate at full-throttle for customers is important then managed WordPress hosting for fast database performance is likely the way you’ll want to go. We’ve gone at length here about why managed web hosting tends to be money well spent for businesses that may have started small, but are getting bigger all the time. Make the investment in getting the most out of your website and you can have that assurance that it’s being optimized at al times, and this will included regular audits of your database and determining what needs to be done so that it’s able to ideally serve as the source for all the information needed for server requests. Which is only just a part of the picture with what goes on as a site works to provide a user experience for people who may become purchasing customers. So the recommendation is always there, but we also know that there are plenty of small business owners who have a sufficient amount of know-how when it comes to website maintenance. So if you choose to stay on a shared hosting arrangement then it’s good to be knowledgeable about the best database optimization techniques for WordPress, and then utilize that information any time you review your site and determine that you’re not getting the most out of your database for whatever reason. This is what we’ll look at with this week’s blog entry. What we can say in advance of getting into the meat of this subject is that much of what’s effective for database optimization is not difficult at all, and often is quite straightforward. Let’s get right into it, and before this entry...
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