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  • Do YouTube Videos Make Your Page Size Bigger?

    Do YouTube Videos Make Your Page Size Bigger?

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    One of our clients asked us earlier if embedding YouTube videos to pages on their website will make the pages larger. Embedding a YouTube video will not increase page size or affect download speeds of your page. YouTube embeds are done via an IFrame. This simply means the content (in this case a YouTube video)…

  • WordPress Website Taken Offline Due to High CPU Cycles

    WordPress Website Taken Offline Due to High CPU Cycles

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    Today one of our clients contacted us. Their website had been suspended and taken offline by their web host due to high CPU cycles. There was no phone call, no support, no warning, no explanation, no troubleshooting of what was going on or why the website was taken offline other than telling the site owner…

  • Is WordPress Secure?

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    A lot of people seem to assume that WordPress is secure right out of the box and that adding plugins to it makes it less secure. Of course, the more plugins, the more vulnerable it becomes, however, sticking to well supported plugins helps you to avoid this issue. One of the most common ways attackers…

  • Is my website down?

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    On occasion people can access major sites, such as Google, but may not be able to reach another site such as their own, or maybe a site such as Facebook.com. Before assuming that your web hosting provider is at fault or jumping to other conclusions the first thing that you can do is visit www.isitdownrightnow.com.…

  • What is shared hosting?

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    A web server is a computer that serves websites. Web servers can host more than one website. A site that get a LOT of traffic may need a dedicated server(s). This costs thousands of dollars. On shared hosting, hosting usually is discounted down to $10/mo or so because resources are shared between many sites. The…

  • How To Properly 301 Redirect a Website

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    It is with great discontent that in 2015 I am still seeing business’s Internet presences completely destroyed by people and even “marketing companies” who have no idea how to properly 301 redirect a website. The proper way to 301 redirect a website: Copy all of the files from OldDomain.com to NewDomain.com Add this strip of…

  • A video of fast web hosting – WordPress in under 1 second

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    There are a lot of things that you can do to make WordPress run faster – combining scripts, compressing this and that, caching pages, etc., but, one thing you can’t do is control the speed of the computer which hosts your website, unless, you buy or lease a server that is blazing fast and just…

  • How much packet loss is too much for a website?

    How much packet loss is too much for a website?

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    A question I have been asked before is “How much packet loss is too much for a website?”. The answer is anything over 0%. Problems associated with website packet loss: problems bringing up your site Image timeouts when sharing posts on social media When sending email with files attached, the message fails to send half…

  • WordPress Website Moves

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    Currently, our favorite tool for moving WordPress websites is Duplicator. If you are familiar with MySQL database creation, importing and exporting CSVs, you will find this tool very helpful. If you do not know what a MySQL database is, no worries, you can have us move your WordPress website for you. Our server was built…

  • Performance Hosting for SEO Purposes

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    It is a well known fact that the speed of your website is an SEO ranking factor. I have personally seen websites sink in the rankings which take over 3 seconds to load. The first reason for this is simple. Google and search engines make money from repeat biz. Their job and goal is to…