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Improving Loading Speed on a WordPress site: A Case Study
I was asked recently if I could provide a step-by-step walkthrough of improving page speed scores / loading times on WordPress websites. Okay, not so recently, but I got distracted and delayed in writing this guide. That said, here it is. A real-world example of how to speed up a WordPress website using the very…
Read More10 Things You Can Do to Prepare for Your Web Design Consultation
Investing in a new website is an important decision every business owner faces. Whether you’re creating a website or renovating an existing online presence, it’s an admittedly intimidating process to choose a company with whom you’re placing your trust. The best outcome will see the highest possible return on your investment. And what business owner…
Read MoreHow to select the best email hosting service
This guide will help you choose the best mail hosting option for you. It’s a mail hosting and server comparison that lists all available options, from a more technical VPS to do-everything-for-you Exchange hosting. Although we started with just basic IMAP/POP mail hosting, to better meet the needs of our customers, we’ve added a few…
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 Transfer Your Website 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 MoreIntegrating New User Approve WP Plugin with WooCommerce
I originally wrote this guide to work with the WP Approve User plugin, however that plugin appears to not be well maintained any longer, so this is a similar guide for the “New User Approve” plugin instead. When building an ecommerce website with wholesale functions, there were two key modifications that needed to be completed…
Read MoreWebsavers is making friends – Partnerships Galore!
We’ve been working on some exciting news for the past couple of months, and we’re finally able to make the announcement. This all comes from the fact that we’re regularly asked what our preferred plugins for WordPress are, what we recommend for speed, security, optimization, and even page building. There’s a ton of options out…
Read MoreHow to create mail authentication records: SPF, DKIM, DMARC
Have you ever had: What’s causing that? Why is it rejected or filtered to spam? While there can be additional reasons for a message being filtered to spam, more often than not, any one of the above issues will occur because there’s an issue with the sending domain’s email spoofing protection configuration. These protections, or…
Read MoreJanuary 2017 WordPress Botnet Bruteforce Attacks
Although we haven’t seen any major reporting on it yet, as of 2017 our servers have detected a massive botnet attacking WordPress installations in an attempt to exploit weak passwords. Our typical firewall rules are configured to allow at most 15 login attempts prior to immediately blocking the IP at the network level. This works…
Read MoreHow to disable your website in Plesk
This article will describe how to disable your website so it is not visible to anyone attempting to access it. You only should proceed with these steps in extreme cases, such as if your website is hacked and acting maliciously. Begin by logging in to Plesk Once in Plesk, choose “Websites & Domains” from the…
Read MoreWhat is “WordPress Optimized” hosting?
As of Jan 2021, WordPress is now used by over 39% of all websites on the Internet, and more than 64% of websites powered by content management systems. Because of this large market share, there’s a vast array of companies offering dedicated services targeted specifically for WordPress, such as WordPress optimized hosting or Managed WordPress…
Read MoreElection 2016 – Is it safe to come out yet?
First off, I need to clarify: We’re not a political organization. As individual people we do, of course, have our political leanings, but as a company we don’t take any position or side. We’re inclusive and welcoming of all legally protected speech and content. So, Election 2016 is behind us. It’s been a bit now, and…
Read MoreHTTP/2 – it’s here, it’s fast, and it’s worth getting excited about
Here at Websavers we are self-professed server and networking geeks, so when we heard about HTTP/2 support being built-in to Plesk – our control panel of choice – we got pretty excited. Right now, HTTP/1 processes HTML line by line. Each resource is pulled individually, creating dozens – if not hundreds – of web requests…
Read MoreFree backlinks for qualifying website owners
FREE BACKLINKS LIMITED TIME OFFER! Up for offer is FREE backlinks from high quality websites for anyone that hosts with us. Requirements: Your site/content must be approved by us, so please do not get writing until you know we’ll accept your content! You must be an existing hosting customer of Websavers or sign up for a…
Read MoreHelp! My WordPress site is redirecting/opening windows to spam pages!
Today one of our techs was working on a website for one of our customers with Hands-On Support and came across a disturbing discovery: the website was opening a new window to a malvertising (malicious advertising) site. It would only happen on the first page load, and only when it registered a click on the…
Read MoreHow to select a personal cloud storage & sync solution
Everything seems to be ‘in the cloud’ these days, and why not? There’s a lot of great convenient features of having cloud-hosted platforms. When I think of ‘the cloud’, the first thing that pops to mind is having my email, calendar, contacts, notes, files, etc all available from anywhere. Hosted securely and accessible to me…
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