Tag: web hosting
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WordPress Website Taken Offline Due to High CPU Cycles
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…
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Is my website down?
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.…
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What is shared hosting?
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…
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A video of fast web hosting – WordPress in under 1 second
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…
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How much packet loss is too much for a website?
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…