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…
Websites
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…
Form mail spam blocker
We found this great trick to block most spam for any form mail type form. Just paste this right above the submit button in the code: <div id=”fooDiv”> <label for=”foo”>Leave this field blank</label> <input type=”text” name=”foo” id=”foo”> </div> <script> (function () { var e = document.getElementById(“fooDiv”); e.parentNode.removeChild(e); })(); </script> The will eliminate…
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…
Staying focused on your business (2014)
Starting a new business can be daunting, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or underachieved. I can remember starting my first web hosting company back in 1998. A simple reseller account with no customers, just hope that I can quit my 9-5 job someday. A reseller web hosting account really opens your eyes to how much…
5 ways to keep WordPress happy
1. Install WP Super Cache it’s the number best way to lower the load on a WordPress website. 2. Remove tags, you can do this by simply adding this in the CSS file: Edit the style.css file and add this code to make your tags disappear with a huge chunk of access load use..tags { display:…
How to prevent spam
If you are like me, you are amazed how spam still exists. After over 20 years, somehow we cannot find a way to stop spammers without blocking the real emails. I believe the solution is simple really, there needs to be a central database that every email needs to be registered with. Until then, we…
Transferring WordPress to a new web host in 9 steps
I just moved over a customer today with WordPress, and he was so happy to be transferred away from Godaddy and amazed at how easy it was, I realized a lot of people might be stuck on a bad host out of fear of moving. I just wanted to explain exactly how easy it is to move…