What are my email hosting options?
Although we started with just basic IMAP/POP mail hosting, to better meet the needs of our customers, we’ve added a few options in the past few years. We’ll also be providing a few additional options that we don’t host. 1. Websavers Shared Hosting Starts at $0 for our Helium hosting plan (requires domain purchase). You…
Read MoreHow to avoid timeouts when importing a WordPress export XML file
WordPress provides a great mechanism for exporting and importing data simply by using Tools > Export or Import. However when used on large datasets, you’re bound to run into timeout issues, especially when that data includes images since it takes time for the importer to grab those images from their source and download them into…
Read MoreProfile on HostingAdvice
Hey hosting family! Just a quick note to check out our featuredarticle on HostingAdvice. You can learn a bit about the company’s history and where we’re headed 🙂
Read MoreHow to Password Protect any Folder in Plesk
This feature is also known as HTTP Authentication. Here’s how to do it: Log in to Plesk and choose “Password Protected Direcotires” under your domain Select Add Protected Directory. Enter in the directory name (wp-admin), location (probably httpdocs) and title of the protected directory and click OK. Once the directory is added, select the directory.…
Read MoreHow to keep your development sites from being indexed
This guide will show you how to configure your development site to ensure it is not indexed by Google. If you’re looking to set up a development environment, take a read over our guide here to learn how to do so then come on back here. Why is it important that your development sites not…
Read MoreTop 5 Must Have WordPress Plugins
This article is an update to one we wrote almost seven years ago: Top 9 Must Have WordPress Plugins. In that time a lot has changed in both the WordPress world and in the tools we use to create sites. Since we often make use of both paid and free plugins and yet it’s not…
Read MoreBeaver Builder 2.0 – A Guide
For each page and post within WordPress you get a basic text editor. It’s much like working within your favourite word processing application: you can write/insert and format your text, insert images and videos very easily! This is often just fine for blog posts and even many pages. However in some cases you want to do more…
Read MoreHow to set your PayPal IPN URL
There’s plenty of guides out there showing how to do this with the old PayPal interface and it seems they all could use some updating! Here’s how to set your IPN URL, as is commonly requested by cart software like WooCommerce. Login to your PayPal account Click here OR click the cog icon in the upper right…
Read MoreHow to Transfer from Yellow Pages
Let’s face it, changing providers isn’t always easy to do even when the company you’re transferring to and from are both helpful and friendly; that’s the whole reason we have a SiteMigrator service to do it for you. That change can be made much harder when the company you want to leave keeps trying to…
Read MoreConversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
Once you have a website and your marketing efforts are sending new customers to your website, it’s important to analyze the flow of traffic from the moment they reach your site through to the final order process. This is called Conversion Rate Optimization or CRO. CRO ensures your business makes money after you start driving…
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