When making your website, it’s important to have good content. Not just for SEO but for people to actually read. I’m amazed at how many articles and sites look like they were made by a machine. Random content, keywords, more not important content, keywords. It’s like website owners forgot that other people are going to actually read the…
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Whitelist your email the professional way
Whitelisting (soon to be known as Allow lists) your email will help it get through a lot of false-positive errors big spam blocking services tend to have. Some might think these spam services do this on purpose, so you pay for the white list. I’m not saying that. Either way, if your email is crucial,…
How to move your website to a new host
We get a lot of customers who have accounts at other hosts and want to move over to Web Host Pro. In most cases they have cPanel, so it’s best to just throw in a ticket with your FTP information, and we can do a root-level move for you. This grabs everything and is very…
HTML5 is complete
HTML5 has had 18 years in the coming. With Flash finally phasing out and new dynamic non php design taking over HTML5 is welcomed with open arms. What is HTML5? In layman’s terms terms, HTML5 is the latest version of HTML. This is the code used to build most websites. The deeper look into HTML5…
Flushing your local computer’s DNS cache
Your home computer creates a cache for all DNS settings. It does this to save time each time you visit a website. The issue is if you change your IP from moving hosts or to a dedicated IP for example, than your computer will get stuck on the old IP. The best way to speed up…
Different types of network switches
Today we are going to go over the different types of network switches. There are four primary types and several different types within the managed section. We will go over each one. 1. Router A router is a basic wired or wireless switch that allows more than one connection to use its resources. These usually do not prioritize…
Free domain name for life
Need a domain name? With any web hosting plan, you can get a free domain name for life. Even with our easy plan which is as low as $2.25 a month, you can get a free domain if you pay for two years at one time. That’s two years of web hosting and a domain…
How to choose what picture type for your website in 2014
2014 – Things have changed in the last ten years, and image types have too. Now the image format .webp is the best for websites and .png is phasing out. Vector images are also popping up a lot for the crisp sizing options. JPEG and GIF are pretty much obsolete on websites, unless it’s to…