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As a web professional, your focus should be on delivering exceptional service to your clients, not wrestling with technical hosting issues. Whether you’re a freelancer looking to expand your service offerings or an established agency aiming to streamline operations, Websavers Inc. offers flexible Canadian hosting solutions designed to help you grow your business on your…

This guide will show you how to transfer a domain’s hosting between subscriptions, or to a new subscription of its own, in Plesk. A few notes on this before we begin: Please complete the following steps to move a domain in Plesk: How to move a database between subscriptions If your site is a totally…

We’re going to answer a few questions around configuring SMTP for WordPress including: What is SMTP and how does it apply to WordPress? SMTP (simple mail transport protocol) is the method that email servers use to talk to each other in order to relay messages from one server to the other. If you’re sending a…

This guide is for anyone with their own VPS or dedicated server that is experiencing high load and would like to find the cause. It’s got tips that apply generally, as well as some that apply specifically to servers running Plesk Panel on an AlmaLinux OS or other RHEL equivalent like Rocky. If you’re not…

This article will help you resolve website outages of all types, walking you through the entire website hosting stack/process from domain registration to web server issues. 1. Check to be sure it’s not just you A common tool to determine if it’s just you experiencing the outage is downforeveryoneorjustme.com. Enter your website URL there to…

This guide will help you repair common problems while using a WordPress page builder, such as problems saving / publishing your page or visual glitches while editing a page. Common visual glitches are: elements appearing in odd locations on the page, elements jumping around the page unexpectedly, ‘ghost’ elements appearing that are not editable, or…

Every time a new media tool comes out, or new social media system goes viral, the marketing world is rocked by cries of “email is dead!” If this were true, we wouldn’t all have an email address, and we wouldn’t sign up for all of these services with our email addresses, and… honestly, the world wouldn’t be…

This guide covers configuring your domain to work with external mail services like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or Zoho Mail. It will work for all other external mail providers as well. Tips before proceeding: Please do not ask us for support with this setup. It’s up to your external mail provider to help switch you…

WooCommerce is a powerful eCommerce platform that offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to customizing your online store. One question we’re asked fairly frequently is how to modify the email templates that are sent to customers when they make a purchase. In this article, we’ll explore the two options for editing WooCommerce email…

There’s two ways to accomplish this: the free method that uses stock WooCommerce functionality, and the paid method that uses a paid WooCommerce Extension. Selling videos using free WooCommerce functionality You could indeed use a WooCommerce Virtual + Downloadable Product (stock functionality) for this, but it comes with a few drawbacks. It provides the option…

By default, WordPress does not allow usernames to be updated, however with self-hosted and open source utilities like WordPress, there is always a way to overcome these kinds of limitations. This guide will show you how to edit the WordPress username. You can also edit the settings in this plugin to send a notification whenever…

Alongside the numerous web design firms, there’s also plenty of web developers out there that love building websites, but who are not officially trained in web design principles. If you’re one of those people, this list of tips for non-designers – those who are not formally trained in either web design or general design principles…

Premium DNS is another one of those buzzwords like “cloud hosting” that isn’t exactly a clearly defined service across all providers. However across all those that provide a premium DNS services there’s a few qualities that are fairly consistent: Premium DNS is, in many ways, simply another way of saying a third-party cloud-based DNS system.…

This guide will show you the steps necessary to convert an Elementor site to BeaverBuilder. The same steps can be used to convert from other page builders, like WPBakery, Divi Builder, or Brizy. Simply replace the term Elementor in this guide with whatever your site is currently using for a page builder. Why would you…

This guide will show you how to change the Owner for your Websavers account or update your email address. If you’re looking to create a new user for your account that is not to become the new owner, see our guide here. Note: you must be the Owner of the account to make this change.…