Your website can be hosted with a web host or sometimes your web developer offers hosting. A website can be hosted at any website host that provides the resources needed to host a website. Those resources include: Redundant internet backbone access (networks of multiple providers) Powerful servers Domain name services (DNS) Redundant power Back-up power […]
Delegating Access From GoDaddy A good way to give access to a GoDaddy account without handing someone your own username and password is to use the "Delegate Access" feature in your GoDaddy account. For our clients, if we need access to your hosting at GoDaddy, here’s how to do that: https://www.godaddy.com/help/give-others-access-to-my-godaddy-account-12376 and you can delegate […]
How to Move Website Hosting From One Host to Another One question we sometimes get is how to transfer a website from another host over to us. It's not too difficult but there are a bunch of steps that need to be followed. This article will outline the general process for moving a website from […]
The Pros and Cons of a Dedicated IP Address for Hosting A long time ago, every website out there needed its own IP address on a server. This is what a dedicated IP address means. Today, you're able to put many websites on a single IP address and we call this a shared IP address. […]
When talking about making a website secure, what that usually means is encrypting the connection between the web server and the computer accessing the website. This is done with an SSL certificate with your website hosting. Having an SSL certificate for your website does not necessarily mean it's safe from being hacked. That's another issue. […]
Website Certificates This article will explain the different kinds of certificates available for website encryption. It’s important to note that certificates just encrypt the transmission of data and they do not make your website secure against hackers. SSL Certificates SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It establishes an encrypted link/connection between the web server and […]
Complete All Steps Every Time You Renew Your SSL Certificate If you are a website hosting client of ours and we're handling your SSL certificate, then this does not pertain to you since you're paying us to handle this for you. We may need you to confirm something from time to time but that's all […]
Clashes With Web and Email Hosts In a perfect world, everything would just work. Unfortunately, this world we have isn't perfect, so there will be problems. With website hosting, issues can arise. Most of these issues tend to deal with security and measures that have had to be put in place to prevent website compromises […]
Choose Your Hosting for WordPress Websites If we're building a WordPress website for you, you have some hosting options. WordPress is Software First, you should know that since WordPress (or Joomla for that matter) is software running on the web server, it needs to be updated from time to time. There are security updates that […]
"Where is This Site Hosted?" One issue we often run into is that we get new clients who become responsible for their websites but they don't know where the website is hosted. There are a number of ways to find the web host of a site. This article will explain a number of ways to […]
