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wp: Digital Ocean Reserved IP Strangeness even if not the DNS Server, Litespeed fail, Cloudways ugh

oK, this is a strange one, so a quick note if you hit it. I’m trying to get a Digital Ocean WordPress up and no matter what I did it didn’t see to work. I”m using Netlify as the DNS Server but it would never recognize the new IP address that I had set up as a reserved IP. It finally occurred to me that I had previously setup the Digital Ocean Domain’s and I had never changed the addresses there.…

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Catching Up on the WordPress 🚫 WP Engine Sitch

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Catching Up on the WordPress 🚫 WP Engine Sitch

Many of you — perhaps most of you — have been sitting on the sidelines while WordPress and WP Engine trade legal attacks on one another. It’s been widely covered as we watch it unfold in the open; ironically, in a sense.

These things can take twists and turns and it doesn’t help that this just so happens to be an emotionally charged topic in certain circles. WordPress is still the leading CMS after all these years and by a long shot. Many developers make their living in the WordPress ecosystem. All of those developers need hosting. WP Engine is still the leading WordPress-flavored host after many years. Many developers host their agencies there and use it to administrate their clients’ sites.

And I haven’t even gotten to the drama. That’s not really the point. The point is that there’s a bunch of heated words flying around and it can be difficult to know where they’re coming from, who they are aimed at, and most importantly, why they’re being said in the first place. So, I’m going to round up a few key voices contributing to the discussion for the sake of context and to help catch up.

Editor’s Note: Even though CSS-Tricks has no involvement with either company, I think it’s mentioning that Automattic was a looooooong time sponsor. This site was also once hosted by Flywheel, a company acquired by WP Engine before we moved to Cloudways following the DigitalOcean acquisition. Me? My personal site runs on WP Engine, but I’m not precious about it having only been there one year.

Prelude to a tweet

We had fair warning that something was coming up when WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg sent this out over X:

I know private equity and investors can be brutal (read the book Barbarians at the Gate). Please let me know if any employee faces firing or retaliation for speaking up about their company’s participation (or lack thereof) in WordPress. We’ll make sure it’s a big public deal and…

— Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) September 19, 2024

There’s the ammo: Don’t let private equity bully you into speaking up against the company you work for when its contributions to WordPress are on the slim side of things.

Private equity. Lack of participation in the WordPress community. Making a big public deal of it. Remember these things because this is one day before…

WordCamp US 2024

Matt spoke at WordCamp US (WCUS) 2024 in Portland, OR, last week. September 20 to be exact. Making big, bold statements at WCUS isn’t a new thing for Matt, as many of us still have “Learn JavaScript deeply” tattooed on the brain from 2016.

Matt’s statements this year were less inspirational (instructional?) as they took direct aim at WP Engine as part of a presentation on the merits of open-source collaboration. You can watch and listen to where the first jab was thrown roughly around the 10:05 marker of the recording.

Let’s break down the deal. Matt begins by comparing the open-source contributions to WordPress from his company, Automattic, to those of WP Engine. These things are tracked on WordPress.org as part of a campaign called “Five for the Future” that’s designed to give organizations an influential seat at the table to form the future of WordPress in exchange for open-source contributions back to the WordPress project. Automattic has a page totaling its contributions. So does WP Engine.

Before Matt reveals the numbers, he goes out of his way to call out the fact that both Automattic and WP Engine are large players in the neighborhood of $500 million dollars. That’s the setup for Matt to demonstrate how relatively little WP Engine contributes to WordPress against Matt’s own company. Granted, I have absolutely no clue what factors into contributions, nor how the pages are administrated or updated. But here’s what they show…

Quite the discrepancy! I’d imagine Automattic dwarfs every other company that’s pledged to the campaign. Maybe it would be better to compare the contributions of another non-Automattic pledge that has a fairly strong reputation for participating in WordPress community. 10up is one of the companies that comes straight to my mind and they are showing up for 191 hours per week, or roughly five times WP Engine’s reported time. I get conflicting info on 10up’s revenue, valuation, and size, so maybe the comparison isn’t fair. Or maybe it is fair because 10up is certainly smaller than WP Engine, and no estimate I saw was even close to the $500 million mark.

Whatever the case, bottom line: Matt calls out WP Engine for its lack of effort on a very public stage — maybe the largest — in WordPress Land. He doesn’t stop there, going on to namecheck Silver Lake, a ginormous private equity firm bankrolling the company. The insinuation is clear: there’s plenty of money and resources, so pony up.

That’s bad enough for attendees to raise eyebrows, but it doesn’t end there. Matt encourages users and developers alike to vote with money by not purchasing hosting from WP Engine (11:31) and seems to suggest (23:05) that he’ll provide financial support to any WP Engine employees who lose their jobs from speaking up against their employer.

I think I can get behind the general idea that some companies need a little prodding to pull their weight to something like the Five for the Future campaign. Encouraging developers to pull their projects from a company and employees to jeopardize their careers? Eek.

“WP Engine is not WordPress”

This is when I believe things got noisy. It’s one thing to strong-arm a company (or its investors) into doing more for the community. But in a post on his personal blog the day after WCUS, Matt ups the ante alleging that “WP Engine isn’t WordPress.” You’d think this is part of the tough-guy stance he had from the stage, but his argument is much different in this post. Notice it’s about how WP Engine uses WordPress in its business rather than how much the company invests in it:

WordPress is a content management system, and the content is sacred. Every change you make to every page, every post, is tracked in a revision system, just like the Wikipedia. This means if you make a mistake, you can always undo it. It also means if you’re trying to figure out why something is on a page, you can see precisely the history and edits that led to it. These revisions are stored in our database. This is very important, it’s at the core of the user promise of protecting your data, and it’s why WordPress is architected and designed to never lose anything.

WP Engine turns this off. They disable revisions because it costs them more money to store the history of the changes in the database, and they don’t want to spend that to protect your content. It strikes to the very heart of what WordPress does, and they shatter it, the integrity of your content.

OK, gloves off. This is more personal. It’s no longer about community contributions but community trust and how WP Engine erodes trust by preventing WordPress users from accessing core WordPress features for their own profit.

Required reading

That’s where I’d like to end this, at least for now. Several days have elapsed since Matt’s blog post and there are many, many more words flying around from him, community members, other companies, and maybe even your Great Aunt. But if you’re looking for more signal than noise, I’ve rounded up a few choice selections that I feel contribute to the (heated) discussion.

Reddit: Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP

Matt responds to the requisite calls for him to step down, starting with:

To be very clear, I was 100% cordial and polite to everyone at the booth, my message was:

* I know this isn’t about them, it’s happening several levels above, it’s even above their CEO, it’s coming from their owner, Silver Lake and particularly their board member Lee Wittlinger.

* Several people inside WP Engine have been anonymously leaking information to me about their bad behavior, and I wanted to let them know if they were caught or faced retaliation that I would support them in every way possible, including covering their salaries until they found a new job.

* That *if* we had to take down the WP Engine booth and ban WP Engine that evening, my colleague Chloé could print them all new personal badges if they still wanted to attend the conference personally, as they are community members, not just their company.

This was delivered calmly, and they said thank you, and their head of comms, Lauren Cox, who was there asked that they have time to regroup and discuss.

Automattic’s Actionable Misconduct Directed to WP Engine

WP Engine issues a cease and desist letter designed to stop Matt from disparaging them publicly. But hold up, because there’s another juicy claim in there:

In the days leading up to Mr. Mullenweg’s September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Convention, Automattic suddenly began demanding that WP Engine pay Automattic large sums of money, and if it didn’t, Automattic would wage a war against WP Engine.

And yes, they did issue it from their own site’s /wp-content directory. That’s easy to lose, so I’ve downloaded it to link it for posterity.

Open Source, Trademarks, and WP Engine

Just today, Matt published a cease and desist letter to the Auttomatic blog where he alleges that WP Engine’s commercial modifications to WordPress Core violate the WordPress trademark. Again, this has become about licensing, not contributions:

WP Engine’s business model is based on extensive and unauthorized use of these trademarks in ways that mislead consumers into believing that WP Engine is synonymous with WordPress. It’s not.

This is trademark abuse, not fair competition.

This is no longer WordPress vs. WP Engine. It’s more like Automattic vs. WP Engine. But with Matt’s name quite literally in the name Automattic, let’s be real and call this Matt Mullenweg vs. WP Engine.

WP Tavern coverage

WP Tavern is still the closest thing we have to an official WordPress news outlet. Nevermind that it’s funded and hired by Automattic (among others). I respect it, though I honestly have been less attentive to it since the team turned over earlier this year. It’s still a great spot to catch up on the post-event coverage:

There’s another more recent WP Tavern article I want to call out because it’s a huge development in this saga…

WP Engine Banned from Using WordPress.org Resources

Dang. This is the point of no return. It not only affects WP Engine proper, but the Flywheel hosting it also owns.

WordPress.org has blocked WP Engine customers from updating and installing plugins and themes via WP Admin. 

I was able to update plugins on my site as recently as yesterday, but let’s see as of this morning.

Aww, biscuits.

Maybe I can still see details about my installed plugins…

Double biscuits!

This is a bad, bad situation. I have thoughts about it and neither side looks good. Using real people with no dog in the fight to make a point is never gonna be a good look. Then again, both sides have valid points and I can see where they’re coming from. I just hate to see it come to a head like this.

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Cloudways Review 2023 : Pros and Cons

Introduction

In the rapidly evolving landscape of web hosting, Cloudways has emerged as a beacon of innovation and user-centricity. This introduction invites you to explore the nuanced world of Cloudway, a managed cloud server service that bridges the gap between users and top-tier cloud providers. With a focus on simplicity, flexibility, and affordability, Cloudways beckons those seeking a refined hosting experience. Join us on a journey through this Cloudways review to uncover the intricacies of its unique approach to web hosting.

Cloudways Overview

In the realm of web hosting solutions, selecting a provider that elicits no regrets proves challenging. Amidst the array of choices, Cloudways stands out with its distinctive yet streamlined approach to web hosting.

Primarily based in Malta, Cloudways collaborates with five leading cloud providers—DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud. These providers constitute the underlying infrastructure, yet users need not establish a direct account; Cloudways orchestrates the setup. Functioning as a managed hosting platform, Cloudways expedites website deployment with just a few clicks, regardless of the chosen open-source tool, be it WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Larvel, Magento, PHP, or others.

Cloudways further differentiates itself with a flexible pricing model. Operating on a “pay-as-you-go” structure, it emerges as an appealing choice for small-to-medium-sized enterprises and budget-conscious users. Delve into this Cloudways review for a comprehensive understanding of this cloud-based hosting provider.

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In this video I'll tell you when & why use Cloudways managed cloud hosting, Also Explain all options of cloudways dashboard.

How to Setup Server and Install Application like WordPress, Magento, PHP on Cloudways. Also Explain Application management options.

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As the digital landscape continues to evolve, website owners constantly seek ways to enhance their websites' performance, security, and overall user experience. One solution that has emerged as a popular choice for website optimization is CloudFlare, a content delivery network (CDN) and security service provider. CloudFlare works seamlessly with WordPress, the world's most widely-used content management system (CMS), empowering millions of website owners to enjoy a more secure, faster, and efficient website. In this tutorial, we will guide you through installing WordPress CloudFlare on your website step by step. Following this guide will teach you how to harness the power of CloudFlare to protect your WordPress site from potential threats, enhance your website's loading speed, and optimize overall performance. So, let's dive in and begin our journey toward a more robust and efficient WordPress website! https://dailytechnotes.com/cloudways-the-ultimate-managed-cloud-and-wordprehosting-solution/ What is CloudFlare and How Does it Benefit Your WordPress Website? CloudFlare is a content delivery network (CDN) and security service provider that offers various features to improve your website's performance and protect it from online threats. By utilizing a vast network of servers distributed across the globe, CloudFlare caches your website's static content, such as images and stylesheets, and serves them to users from a server nearest to their location. This significantly reduces the loading time of your website, providing a better user experience. In addition to faster loading times, CloudFlare offers robust security features, including DDoS protection, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and SSL encryption, to shield your WordPress site from malicious attacks and data breaches. Setting Up a CloudFlare Account and Adding Your Website Step 1: Create a CloudFlare account Visit the CloudFlare website and click the "Sign Up" button in the top-right corner. Enter your email address, choose a new account password, and click "Create Account." Step 2: Add your website Once logged in, you will be prompted to add your website to CloudFlare. Enter your website's domain (e.g., yourdomain.com) and click "Add Site." CloudFlare will then scan your domain's DNS records, which may take a few moments. Step 3: Choose a plan After completing the scan, you will be asked to choose a CloudFlare plan. For most users, the free program offers good features. Select the desired scheme and click "Confirm Plan." Step 4: Review your DNS records Cloudflare will present a list of your website's DNS records. Review these records to ensure that they match your current DNS settings. If everything looks correct, click "Continue." Configuring Cloudflare DNS Settings for Your WordPress Site Step 1: Update your domain's nameservers. To complete the setup, you must update your domain's nameservers to point to CloudFlare. In the CloudFlare dashboard, you will see the nameservers assigned to your account. Copy these nameservers. Step 2: Log in to your domain registrar. Log in to your domain registrar (e.g., GoDaddy, Namecheap, etc.) and navigate to the DNS management section for your domain. Replace your current nameservers with the ones provided by Cloudflare. Step 3: Verify the changes. Return to the CloudFlare dashboard and click "Done, check nameservers." CloudFlare will verify that your nameservers have been updated correctly. This process may take up to 24 hours but often happens much sooner. Installing the CloudFlare Plugin on Your WordPress Site Step 1: Log in to your WordPress dashboard. Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard and navigate to the "Plugins" menu. Step 2: Search for the CloudFlare plugin. Click "Add New" and search for "CloudFlare" in the plugin search bar. You should see the "Cloudflare" plugin by Cloudflare, Inc. Step 3: Install and activate the plugin. Click "Install Now" and "Activate" once the installation is complete.

Step 4: Configure the plugin. Navigate to the CloudFlare plugin settings page in your WordPress dashboard. Enter your CloudFlare email address and API key, which can be found in your CloudFlare account under "My Profile > API Tokens." Click "Save API Credentials." Optimizing Your WordPress Site with CloudFlare Features Enable Auto Minify In your CloudFlare dashboard, go to the "Speed" tab, and scroll down to the "Optimization" section. Enable "Auto Minify" for JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. This will reduce the size of your site's files, leading to faster load times. Use Rocket Loader In the same "Optimization" section, enable "Rocket Loader" to improve the loading times of JavaScript files on your site. This feature prioritizes the loading of visible content and defers the loading of non-critical JavaScript. Activate HTTP/2 Navigate to the "Network" tab in your CloudFlare dashboard and enable "HTTP/2." This feature improves website performance by allowing multiple requests to be sent over a single connection. Set up a Page Rule for caching In the "Page Rules" tab, create a new rule for your WordPress site. Enter the following pattern: https://*yourdomain.com/* (replace "yourdomain.com" with your actual domain). Under "Settings," choose "Cache Level" and set it to "Cache Everything." This will ensure that CloudFlare caches static and dynamic content, improving your site's performance. Enable Browser Cache TTL In the "Caching" tab of your CloudFlare dashboard, set the "Browser Cache TTL" to a value between 8 days and one month. This determines how long cached resources will be stored in a user's browser, reducing the need for frequent requests to your server. Set up a Web Application Firewall (WAF) To enhance your site's security, navigate to the "Firewall" tab in your CloudFlare dashboard and enable the "Web Application Firewall" (available on paid plans). This feature protects your site from web threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Enable Always Use HTTPS To ensure your site always uses a secure connection, go to the "SSL/TLS" tab in your CloudFlare dashboard and enable "Always Use HTTPS." This will automatically redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS. Following these steps and leveraging CloudFlare's features will significantly enhance your WordPress site's performance, security, and overall user experience. Remember to monitor your website's performance regularly and adjust as needed to optimize your site for the best results. Conclusion Congratulations! You have now successfully installed WordPress CloudFlare on your website, unlocking many benefits for your site's performance, security, and overall user experience. By following this comprehensive guide, you have taken a significant step toward optimizing your website and ensuring visitors enjoy a seamless browsing experience. For more insightful tutorials and guides, explore the "Tutorials" category on our blog, DailyTechNotes.com. Stay up-to-date with the latest tips and tricks to make the most of your online presence, and continue learning how to optimize and enhance your website for the best results possible. Happy blogging!

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Why Your Agency Should Offer Managed Cloud Hosting to Clients

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When it comes to end-to-end services, digital agencies offer an impressive range. From requirement analysis to post-deployment maintenance, these agencies do everything to make sure that their clients are able to fully leverage their projects for maximum business efficiency.

In this backdrop, many agencies (particularly those that deal with web-based projects) also offer hosting as part of their services to their customers. While small and up-and-coming digital agencies might not have hosting on their service brochure, mid-tier and top-shelf agencies see hosting as an integral service offering to their clients.

Setting up Hosting for Customers

For a web-based project, web hosting is an essential component that determines the success (and failure) of the project. Since the agency has developed the project, many clients trust the agency-managed hosting for their project.

High-performance applications (online stores and CRM in particular) demand a hosting solution that’s able to keep pace with the high request volume and a large number of concurrent connections. Clients with these projects can’t compromise on the post-deployment performance of the applications. As such, agencies prefer an in-house hosting setup that caters to the specific requirements of the projects.

Agencies Benefit From In-house Hosting

Before going into what benefits agencies get from an in-house hosting setup, it’s important to understand the major requirements of high-performance projects. Without going too much into the details, in-house hosting solutions are set up to make sure that custom-built projects continue to perform on the following parameters:

the number of visitors per hour/day/month

the number of simultaneous visitors

the maximum number of connections allowed

the number of simultaneous requests/orders

the size and complexity of the products catalog (number of products, product categories, attributes)

the content requirements and traffic on content assets such as blogs

the volume of search queries on the site

the size and connections on the database

With in-house hosting solutions, agencies (and their clients) get a whole range of benefits such as those outlined below.

Custom Hardware and Software

Hardware requirements for custom, high-performance projects generally include three components: CPU, RAM and Disk Space. Since each project has custom requirements that are often not available in off-the-shelf hosting solutions available in the market, agencies opt for setting up in-house hardware platforms for their customers.

Custom hardware setups usually cost more than the conventional, commercially available hosting hardware architecture. The cost of setting up and maintaining the hosting architecture is usually the responsibility of the dev agency, which usually bills the client for these services.

Another related (and in my opinion, more important) requirement of these projects is a custom environment that comprises an OS layer and a facilitation layer made of servers and caches. A custom environment allows agencies to build their projects without worrying about conflicts with the OS and server software required to execute the codebase. Thanks to in-house hosting, digital agencies can completely customize the OS and server layer to the project specifications.

End-to-End Management of Project Hosting

Project requirements change and clients often revise their requirements and scope. These changes also impact the hosting requirements and specifications. Since the hosting process is being managed in-house, the agency can take proactive actions to improve hosting setup specifications and ensure continued performance for the application.

Passive Income Stream

In almost all cases, agency-managed hosting solutions are built and maintained on the client’s dollars. The agency proposes hosting setup specifications and sets it up once the client pays for it. Once the setup is active, the client pays for the maintenance and upkeep of the hosting solution. This is a passive income channel that is often an important supplement to agency revenues.

Challenges In-agency Managed Hosting

Despite the benefits, managing an in-house hosting setup can prove to be a drag on the agency operations. In particular, agency-managed hosting causes the following challenges for the business processes.

Hosting Architecture Requires Continuous Attention

Since this is an in-house managed hosting solution, it’s obvious that the agency is responsible for keeping both the hardware and software layers operational. While the hardware layer (the physical server machines and the networking equipment) have a lower ratio of failure, it’s important to note that the software components of the hosting solution require detailed attention and upkeep.

Both hardware and software vendors regularly release patches that fix bugs and enhance product functionality. In many cases, these patches are mission-critical and essential for the continued performance of the project’s hosting. In in-house managed hosting, this is the responsibility of a dedicated team that performs no other function.

The Constant Need for Security

Web servers are the prime target of cybercriminals because of the wealth of information and user data on them. The problem with server security is that it's a full-time function that requires specialists on the team. The same goes for clients’ applications (CMSs such as WordPress are especially vulnerable) that could potentially open up security loopholes in the server and application security. Not many agencies can afford a dedicated infosec expert on the payroll. Thus, there's always the danger that clients’ applications can get hacked because the agency-managed hosting is unable to maintain the required security standards.

Sysadmins Prove to be an Overhead

Sysadmins are among the highest-paid professions in the ICT industry, and rightly so! They manage entire data centers and handle all aspects of hosting servers from provisioning to maintenance. The problem with sysadmins is the high recruitment and operational costs of these professionals. Thus, hiring a sysadmin to manage in-house hosting is a serious decision that's out of the budget of many dev agencies.

Deviation from the Core Business

Digital agencies are in the business of building applications and custom projects that create value for their clients. An in-house hosting solution requires competence that lies outside the normal scope of the dev agencies. In addition, managing hosting solutions require expenses that eat away into profits without generating enough revenue to justify their inclusion in business offerings.

Shared Hosting is a False Start

The good news is that many agencies are aware of the issues with in-house, agency-managed hosting and have come to realize that this is not the ideal solution for managing clients’ hosting focused expectations.

However, since the clients’ requirements continue to grow and the need for hosting solutions for custom-developed apps is on the rise, a number of agencies have turned to shared hosting as an alternative to agency managed in-house hosting solutions.

When opting for shared hosting solutions, agencies try to reduce the cost of hosting solutions while providing a comparable hosting solution to the clients.

Before going into the description of why shared hosting solutions are in fact counterproductive for dev agencies, it's important to understand how shared hosting solutions work.

Shared Hosting in a Nutshell

As the name implies, shared hosting is a solution where several websites/applications are hosted on a single physical server. This means that the physical resources (CPU, RAM, Disk space and bandwidth (in some cases) get shared among the websites hosted on the server.

While this is not a bad solution per se, it's not the right ft for high-performance applications. These applications have a minimum server resource requirements that often exceed the allocated “quota” allocated by the shared hosting server.

Many digital agencies try to integrate shared hosting solutions in their customer-focused services by eliminating sysadmins from the equation and asking the developers to manage the hosting servers for the clients.

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Ananova lists WordPress.com as a reliable web hosting provider because of its excellent technical customer service, reputation for security and uptime. The provider offers ample resources like space and bandwidth to accommodate business growth via an increased number of products or customers. The provider manages everything behind the scenes, entrepreneur need to focus only on the core business. The platform provides tools to enable taxes, set up shipping methods and add payment gateways. The customers can configure payment gateways like PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Braintree and 2Checkout. Paypal is free for personal accounts with a sales volume per month below $20K. It's a good option for stores selling low-priced items. Businesses with heavy cash payments can go with Paypal Express Checkout. Stripe works with all major credit cards but, it does not provide an option for recurring billing eg. monthly subscriptions. It has built-in fraud protection features which help reduce chargebacks since they are secure transactions initiated through HTTPS protocol encryption. Another payment method Authorize Net offers much lower fees but requires more setup time. Before going live, each transaction requires manual approval before being processed by them first before being sent along to whichever company requested it originally.

The technology with improved usability, functionality and better security has made purchasing with online eCommerce much easier compared to the traditional way. The provider takes care of eCommerce stores against malicious attacks that try to hack to steal credit cards and sensitive information through phishing scams or other means.

The companies understand that most potential customers are available online, especially through mobile devices. The WooCommerce Social Login enables customers to log in to Woocommerce through social media accounts like Facebook, or Twitter rather than creating an account for buying through the website.

Online feedback or comments alter the customer's buying decision. Most businesses get trademark registrations for their selected eCommerce store domain names thus, legally hold brand names.

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Best Hosting For Freelance Web Designers

Best Hosting For Freelance Web Designers What's the best hosting for freelance web designers? Here are a few things to keep in mind. Best Hosting For Freelance Web Designers Most customers will not need technical changes or setups, but some may need to use a cPanel workaround. Ensure your chosen hosting plan includes enough bandwidth to handle the traffic you generate. You should also consider what kind of email account they need - some might need multiple accounts. SiteGround SiteGround is fast, reliable, and has an affordable introductory price. The company's servers are in the USA, India, and Japan. In addition, SiteGround implements SuperCacher to maximize loading speed. As a result, your site will load faster in just a few seconds. The site building process is quick and easy with SiteGround unified architecture, which combines Nginx and Apache to reduce latency. You can even turn on a one-click dynamic cache with their SuperCacher plugin. 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How do I speed up and boost site ranking without building backlinks?

Get a robust a fast hosting - Cloudways will be my top choice

Setup a CDN - Cloudflare offers a free plan that is more than enough. If you have the budget, I highly recommend BunnyCDN.

Use a lightweight and fast loading theme - My top choice will be GeneratePress

Keep the number of plugins to a minimum - Use plugins ONLY when you absolutely need a particular functionality or service and, by all means, stay away from these plugins. Instead, try to find an alternative to these.

Avoid page builders - If you´re unfamiliar with how to optimize a WordPress website if you don´t have experience with the technical part of the process try by all means to build the site NOT using page builders. The Gutenberg editor has come a long way and you can build pretty much anything on it these days. If you´re willing to invest some time into learning CSS and know your way around new software, I highly recommend you to start using Oxygen Builder. Don´t worry, Oxygen is NOT a page builder is a THEME builder. This will be the closest you´ll ever be to build a custom theme from scratch without having to write thousands of lines of code.

Images - a) Compress, b) convert (into webp or SVG), c) properly resize them (for both desktop and mobile), d) lazyload (only the ones below the fold), and e) serve them through a CDN.

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Videos - a) Convert videos in Webm format, b) don´t host them locally, c) Embed them using iframe, d) use an image place holder for the video thumbnail, e) lazyload the image.

Fonts - If you´re loading fonts from an external source, download them and host them locally. Fonts are static resources and there´s no need to be requesting them to an external domain like Google Fonts.

CSS - Generate the Critical Path CSS (CPCSS) and minify, merge, and defer the rest.

JavaScript (JS) - Keep this to a minimum as well. Be sure NOT to use any JS-heavy plugins (Like RevSlider) and add the defer attribute as well to non-critical scripts.

External Scripts - When it comes to scripts executing on our site coming from external sources, it´s almost always better to delay these until the page is fully rendered. Remember, it´s important NOT to delay scripts that are required for your page to load but, in the vast majority of the cases, these won´t be the case. Some of the scripts that are perfect to delay are: analytics, tracking, messaging, chat, etc.

I am not trying to create a universal guide on how to optimize a site page loading speed. Each case is different and we need to analyze them individually but, I think these points summarize the most critical factors that influence a site/page performance.

Feel free to PM me if you need me to run a quick speed audit on a site. I will be more than happy to do it for you.

and boost site ranking without building backlinks?

Regarding this, I am a firm believer that the best linkbuilding strategy is a solid content marketing strategy.

The best way to improve organic rankings without building backlinks is to publish content that will resonate with your audience or, people will like to link to in a natural way.

Also, make use of social media, this is often something many marketers overlook for the sole reason it takes time to see any boost in organic traffic coming from social. Many like to take the fast track and just run paid ads in order to boost their social reach and visibility.

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Troubles with solution you may face with AWS

Troubles with solution you may face with AWS

1. Billing Complexity

AWS has a first-rate flaw in its billing device, which can be quite complex and complicated for small non-technical commercial enterprise proprietors.

But, this problem may be mitigated with the aid of working with a reseller who can offer a extra trustworthy and comprehensible invoice or billing.

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2. Resource obstacles

AWS limits resources via region, that may effect your get right of entry to to resources primarily based on place. As a brand new user, AWS also imposes regulations to prevent excessive resource usage and to guard towards malicious reason.

Although facts regarding resource utilization can be limited, aid increases can be requested if needed.

Three. Cloud troubles

Migrating to cloud computing can bring about issues which include backup safety, hazard of information leakage, privateness troubles, safety, downtime, and constrained manage. However, those problems are not particular to AWS and are common amongst cloud computing corporations.

AWS is aware the significance of securing these issues and has measures to cope with them, ensuring that your business won’t need to address them.

Don’t permit the complexity of AWS intimidate you – Cloudways has got your returned!

Our person-pleasant platform makes it clean to host your website on AWS, with out the need for technical understanding. Say good-bye to confusion and frustration and hey to seamless AWS website hosting with Cloudways.

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The simple answer – managed web hosting

The reputedly huge problem of loss of time or knowledge to manage servers has a simple answer – managed Amazon web hosting. Controlled web hosting providers flip barebone infrastructures into the right answer for AWS for beginners.

Managed Amazon website hosting providers build their infrastructure on pinnacle of AWS, leveraging the power and versatility of AWS for all their clients. In almost all instances, these clients experience a controlled revel in that takes away the complexities of the AWS infrastructure while allowing get entry to to the energy of the AWS servers.

These offerings cowl the whole AWS revel in spectrum, from server advent to protection. Whilst the specifics and transport of the offerings fluctuate from vendor to seller, the simple presenting are quite similar.

Some blessings of the use of managed Amazon hosting encompass:

Simplified server setup system thru a person-pleasant one-page form, with provisioning taking only a few minutes.

Get entry to to powerful AWS infrastructure and its features without the want to manipulate its complexities.

A wide range of application options, such as famous picks like WordPress, Magento, and php.

Consumer-pleasant portals with factor-and-click interfaces for coping with servers and deployed packages.

Easy and fast hosting enjoy for users, with selections for adding and doing away with cache subsystems, databases, and related functions.

Safety approaches like firewalls and intruder detection systems (IDS) are managed via the carrier issuer, ensuring a secure hosting environment.

Customers can cognizance on their programs with out worrying about dealing with the underlying infrastructure or losing time on complex server control.

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Summary

Amazon’s AWS cloud computing provider is comfortable, and it's far right here to help you in decreasing your commercial enterprise statistics infrastructure costs. Consequently, opting for AWS cloud offerings will gain your company and assist you to exponentially scale your enterprise on a leading cloud infrastructure platform.

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Cloudways vs Bluehost – Which Is Best For Your Business

For your website to be up online, you need a hosting service provider. Before that, though, you should know the hosting type that you want. You have two choices. These are traditional hosting and cloud hosting. Traditional hosting requires servers. You’ll have a fixed number of resources that you can use. Cloud hosting keeps all your data online. Here, you can choose the resources that you want to get.

You can learn more about cloud hosting here. Today, we’ll compare two apps that you can turn to for each type. We’ll talk about Cloudways and Bluehost. You can expect to know which app will better suit your needs.

What is Cloudways?

Cloudways is a cloud hosting software. Uzair Gadit, Pere Hospital, and Aaqib Gadit founded it in 2009.

The app runs on a managed system. Meaning, it assures reliability and high-performing networks. This app caters mainly to agencies and e-commerce businesses. Developers will also find the built-in tools helpful. 

Here are some of the cloud-based products and solutions that Cloudways offers:

WooCommerce Hosting

Magento Hosting

Managed DigitalOcean

Drupal Cloud Hosting

Ecommerce Hosting

WordPress Hosting

PHP Hosting

Managed Google Cloud

Managed Amazon Cloud

Managed Linode

The goal of the app is to let its users focus on their site. It will take care of everything related to its status on the net. The features, on the flip side, will aid in your business’ growth. For best results, they also take pride in their dedicated customer support.

Features of Cloudways

Here is an overview of some of the most valuable tools of Cloudways:

Server Transfer

If you have an existing site, you can quickly transfer your data through the Server Transfer feature. You can do this even if it’s up on a different platform. Aside from data, your ownership will also come with your site. What makes this better is that the tool is possible with just one click.

Bot Protection

This feature will keep your site free from traffic and privacy issues. To be specific, this will prevent bots, hacking attacks, and malware. Through Bot Protection, you and your visitor can rest assured that your details are safe online. Note that the said tool uses Malcare’s technology, one of the top security brands.

Two-Factor Authentication

The two-factor authentication adds to your site’s security. By enabling this, hackers will have a hard time invading your website. Instead of the usual password system, this will send you a unique code before you sign in.

App & Server Cloner

With the App Cloner, you can copy a specific site’s details and duplicate them to make a new one. You can run an entirely new server. If you prefer, you can simply use this to track copies for your pages. Either way, the tool helps avoid data loss.

1-Click Backup and Restore

Losing your site’s data and progress is one of the worst things that can happen. With the 1-Click Backup & Restore tool, you can immediately keep a copy of your site. You can restore it once it’s needed.

What is Bluehost?

Bluehost is more of a traditional web hosting platform. Its founder, Matt Heaton, first released the software in 2003. 

Unlike Cloudways, the app at hand runs through connected servers. Because of this setup, you can expect high uptime. It can also give balanced levels of resources to avoid shortages. Its tools make it perfect for sites of various sizes and niches. Bluehost offers a lot of web hosting options. Here are the services that you can choose from:

Shared Hosting

WordPress Hosting

VPS Hosting

Online Store Hosting

Reseller Hosting

This software aims to make web hosting as simple as possible. The site owner has nothing to worry about except for maintenance. Bluehost mainly focuses on-site availability. You can also expect that its features and interface are easy to use.

Features of Bluehost

Moving on, here are the features that Bluehost will provide you with:

WordPress Site Builder

Bluehost is one of the few apps that offer a built-in site builder. Not only that, but the software works with WordPress to assure total site freedom. You'll be able to do things like adding media files, making templates, editing content very easily.

Because the feature is WordPress-powered, you won’t need to do any coding tasks. It is an easy-to-use drag-and-drop builder. Hence, this is perfect even for beginners.

Domain Manager

Whether you need to transfer or register a new domain, you can easily do so through the app’s domain manager. It comes in a dashboard panel consisting of all your existing domains. In this way, you won’t have to pay for a different platform. To help you get started, the app will even provide you with a 1-year free domain.

Built-In Security Tools

Bluehost has an abundance of features in terms of site security. This aspect is one of their top priorities. In particular, the software comes with malware detection and automated security updates.

Moreover, Bluehost will also give you a free SSL certificate. Therefore, you can establish trust with your visitors easier and this is also a ranking factor with search engines including Google.

E-Commerce Features

For e-commerce sites, you can also expect a certain set of tools to help you. The app has automated marketing tools to aid in your business journey. You will get a profile in Google My Business. SEO tools and ad credits are also guaranteed.

One-Click Plugin Installs

Extending Bluehost’s features is possible through the One-Click Plugin Installs. You can add any plugin that you want. Through it, your hosting service will give way to more opportunities for your site.

All of the app’s tools are easy to work around. Thus, you won’t need that much time to get used to the interface. Still, despite the straightforward tools, expect that they effectively keep a site up and working. Again, note that the features will depend on the hosting service and plan. 

Pros and Cons of Cloudways and Bluehost

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Why Should Small Companies Bet Big on WordPress?

43 percent of all the websites on the internet run on the world's most popular CMS, WordPress. This stat carries a lot of weight in the internet community. Many land on WordPress.com to know why Matt Mullenweg (the original developer of WordPress) introduced this absolutely fascinating model and how it can give the business owners an advantage over competitors.

This CMS platform is one of the popular and well-loved products with a very passionate base, including start-ups and small companies. But how popular? According to Matt Mullenweg, WordPress is growing faster than others, and it will surely cover 80-85 percent of all websites in the next decade. But why is WordPress development a top choice for Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and thousands of small businesses? Well, if you ask us, the way this CMS platform is making web development a breeze, making a big bet on WordPress is fruitful in the present and future.

If you’re planning to expand your small business, enjoy the best of the WordPress world as it can help you surge ahead in the market. This blog post has covered the reason why small businesses should go for WordPress for web development.

WordPress Is Totally Free

A free deal sounds pretty good. Right? WordPress is a free CMS platform. It’s a great option for start-ups and small businesses because it eliminates a huge part of the investment. You can simply download it for free, install it on your website in a few minutes and perform your desired actions.

WordPress has emerged as a reliable platform you can even modify to create a better website that can stretch your business ability. It saves money and time, which is considered one of the most crucial factors of a business’s success.

Website Setup in a Few Clicks

Creating a professional-looking website has become a matter of a few clicks since the inception of WordPress. It can be installed easily. You can set up your website without becoming an expert with servers or hosting. From managing WordPress hosting plans from companies like Flywheel or WP Engine to simply choosing Bluehost and Cloudways, it’s as easy as a walk in the park with WordPress.

WordPress is also equipped with a wide assortment of features and functionalities for website development. So, you don’t need to worry about installing other software as everything is available in one place.

Open Source Development Platform

The next point on our list that gives one more reason to choose WordPress for small businesses is the open-source nature of the software. Anyone can download and use the code present in WordPress Codex to add functionality to their websites. Entrepreneurs can hire WordPress developers to manage the source code. But being a small business owner having a tight budget, you can handle it on your own and save money for future use.

User-Friendly Interface

Do you know what Matt Mullenweg's mission was behind developing WordPress? This most popular website creation platform was developed because the founder discovered an unfulfilled need with existing online publishing software. So, he built his own that features a user-friendly interface to suit every technical and non-technical person's needs. Such ease makes this platform high in demand around the world.

If you are a small business owner and want to expand your business with a robust website, take advantage of WordPress capabilities. Thanks to its excellent user interface! It allows people with no technical background to create web pages, posts, menus, and even more things with complete ease.

SEO-Friendly

Having a website is not enough when it is not visible to your targeted audience. Right? And here comes a new term, SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Today, websites are developed keeping SEO perspectives in mind. And if your website is created on WordPress, it is by default SEO optimized. The structure this CMS software follows is already acknowledged by the search engines. The story doesn’t end just here. WordPress also offers a number of guides and plugins that optimize your onsite SEO and helps you achieve a better ranking on Google and other search engines. This is probably the reason why WordPress's popularity is increasing tremendously.

SEO increases your visibility online. The more people see your website, the more the website traffic will be. For a small business or startup, SEO is a must, and WordPress web development will be a plus point.

Secure And Reliable

Security is a big question that struck many business owners’ minds while setting up their websites. Right? WordPress is a powerful CMS and web development platform that scores high in terms of security. The regular updates and security patches contribute to a safer environment for your website. A safer website platform leverages the user experience and makes it reliable. So, when are you getting your first website built on WordPress?

Conclusion

Can Matt Mullenweg’s creation change the face of the whole web development industry? The popularity of this CMS and web development platform has been increasing in recent years, no doubt we will experience a lot more innovations in the future.  

Coming to the small or start-up business, they always look for efficient ways that can deliver maximum benefits with low investment. Right? If you ask us, WordPress can help you establish a strong presence in the digital world without even spending a lot of time and money.

This blog post has rounded up all the reasons why small businesses should go for WordPress development services. Being a business owner, taking the right foot forward to your business growth is crucial. This time say yes to the WordPress development and become a game-changer with a smart web-based solution. 75way can help you in this journey, providing you with the best-in-class WordPress development services. We are renowned and reliable experts in the IT industry you can trust for your projects.

So, don’t overthink! Get in touch with the developers at 75way today and reap the benefits of all the features that come along with WordPress.