Today, no one in their right mind would rely on just local backups. Further, considering the amount of content even an average blog would contain, it might not be practical. For most issues that could compromise data and content today, cloud backups are the answer. What is cloud backup? This blog will attempt to answer all your questions. First, what is the cloud? The cloud refers to services that run on the internet and not…
In choosing WordPress as your SEO platform, you have made a wise and great step to successfully marketing your website. WordPress has several in-built features that enhance the SEO capabilities that even those with no technical background can implement to optimize their website. In this blog, we’ll uncover WordPress SEO tips that include some features within WordPress that you may not have noticed that could help enhance your search engine rankings. Setting your url structure…
Which blog platform is best for making money? Does a platform really matter when it comes to monetary benefit? This blog will break down the first step to making money with your blog- choice of blog platform. If you want ideas and tips on how to make money from your blog, check out our blog post on ‘How to start a blog and make money’. To start with, we should clarify that when we…
What is the Softaculous Apps Installer : Softaculous is an app installer that saves you the time and effort of setting up your dream blog, website or ecommerce store. Particularly loved by Shared Hosting customers, the Softaculous app installer makes getting started with a website, a piece of cake. Here’s how Softaculous helps customers, especially those that are new to the web industry (usually Shared Hosting customers) ease into the workings of web infrastructure. All…
A recent survey conducted by hashedout, revealed that 49% of the biggest websites built with WordPress are not running WordPress’ latest version. As the most popular CMS in the world with over 60 million users or 30% of websites running the script, it is a huge target for several cyber threats (source-wordpress.org) WordPress version releases: 2018 marks 15 years since WordPress was first introduced to the world. It has undergone quite a transformation since then.…
Instant messaging has done nothing to stall the importance of email for both personal and business use today. We use email often enough, if not everyday. Do we really understand how it works and which email setup will work best for our business? Let’s investigate that and in particular I’d like to address the difference between POP3 and IMAP. First, the basics. While I won’t bore you with the history of email, there are a…
In this blog on the ‘MongoDB vs MySQL comparison’, I’ll break down database jargon to explain the difference between the newer system and the legacy that is MySQL. While a lot of the terms associated with this topic might be familiar to many web professionals out there, I’m laying it all out to help those who could do without the techspeak. So let’s get started! MySQL and MongoDB are ‘database management systems’. To really understand…
We love making life easier for our web pro audience. Like most of the world, most web developers use Google Chrome for work (Google Chrome by various reports holds close to 60% of the browser market share). So we’ve put together a short list of what we think are the best Chrome extensions for web developers. While you would have probably heard of a few of these popular ones in the list, we’ve dug deeper…
With thousands of free and premium themes available online, why would someone want to put in the work to customize their WordPress theme? Also, how easy is it to change a theme in WordPress entirely? Let’s find out. How to change a theme in WordPress : As you will see below, changing a theme in WordPress involves just just a few clicks. However, repairing the damage done post a change that was not thought through,…
When you set out to buy your first web hosting package, you will not only need to choose the type of hosting package for your website but (in some cases) also the infrastructure-namely, a Linux or Windows server. In this blog, we’ll cover: How knowing the difference between Linux and Windows hosting will help you What the difference between Linux and Windows hosting is What type of infrastructure you should pick —— Why it’s important…