Author: Abraham Adebisi

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is something of a ‘cure-all’ for solving various issues on your website. CDNs are said to improve everything from site speed and security to account bandwidth usage. How is it that one upgrade can affect so much of a site’s performance? It all comes down to what CDNs actually do: get your site’s static content physically closer to your site’s visitors by distributing that content to other servers. How Does a Content Delivery Network Function? Here’s how a CDN works — normally, a website is hosted on a server, the computer that stores your site’s files. When someone visits the…

If you’ve interacted with the internet in any capacity you’ve seen the word cache or caching. But what is caching and why are people telling you to clear your cache? This article will explain caching and why it’s an important piece of your internet experience. Experience superior performance and security with Upspeedhosting’s optimized WordPress Hosting. What is Caching? A cache is temporary storage for copies of files or data, and caching is the process of storing copies of files or data in a cache. Basically, cache is the storage location and caching is the act of storing particular files and data. Storing files in a cache allow the data…

With over 1 million active installations, W3 Total Cache is one of the most popular ways to optimize and manage the cache for your WordPress site. This can result in faster load times and less strain on your server, which can also help your SEO (search engine optimization) efforts. How to Use W3 Total Cache in Platform If you have Platform InMotion, W3 Total Cache is already pre-built into your website. All you have to do is enable it. From your WordPress Central project dashboard, click Optimize > Page Speed. Click Enable Page Caching. W3 Total Cache is now enabled. If you would like to explore more advanced…

One of the benefits of being an InMotion WordPress Hosting customer is that we can migrate your existing WordPress website to your InMotion Hosting account or easily get you set up with a site that has WordPress already installed. At that point, it’s just a matter of logging in and getting started. Once you have completed the installation of WordPress, you can log in to your WordPress dashboard. The admin section of WordPress, the “WordPress Dashboard“, is where you will begin building your WordPress site. Please take note that your login credentials are not the same as your cPanel username and password unless you set…

Rich, engaging content is a must-have for your website. Once visitors land on your site, good content entices them to stay and explore. One of the easiest ways to do this is to add videos to your WordPress site. As our attention span decreases, creating content that will quickly capture that waning attention is ever more important. Short videos allow you to present important information in an engaging way. You can add videos to WordPress easily by embedding them or uploading them directly to your media library. Continuing reading to learn more about: Of note, it is recommended that you embed videos over…

Slow websites can be a recipe for disaster for website owners. Research shows that 40% of people will abandon your site entirely if it takes more than three seconds to load. To put that into perspective: if 10,000 people visit your site every month, that means that 4,000 of them would leave and never come back. The importance of site speed is reflected in Google’s search algorithm where they have announced in the past that site speed is a signal in the algorithm. They have also stated speed is a ranking factor for mobile searches. However, while site speed is important it cannot be…

When looking for a place to host your website there are many options but the most common starting point is a VPS for web hosting or Shared hosting plan. This is primarily due to the starting price and high value that you get for the money. The primary difference between a VPS and a Shared hosting plan is that a VPS has resources that are allocated specifically for your account. While a Shared account shares all the server resources with other users. After narrowing it down to these two types of plans, the next logical questions are “What’s the difference?” and “How do I…

Are you looking to build your web presence while saving money? Do you want to get right to designing your websites without worrying about fine tuning and managing servers? Shared Hosting may be the choice for you. With Shared Hosting, you can get your site online simply and quickly. By renting out a portion of the server, you have direct access to all of the tools you need while a hosting company like InMotion Hosting manages server maintenance. Let’s look at everything shared hosting has to offer. What is Shared Hosting? A hosting account lets you put a website online, store data…

Getting heavy traffic on your website may sound great, but it can actually be detrimental to your website’s overall success. Whether your WordPress website is hosted on a Shared server or utilizing Virtual Dedicated Server Hosting, spikes in traffic can lead to issues with load times. Here’s what you need to know about whether your WordPress site is up to the task of meeting your traffic needs. How Does Heavy Traffic Hurt Your Business? How to Test The Amount of Traffic My Site Can Handle Which Hosting Plan is Best for You? Shared Hosting VPS Hosting Managed WordPress Hosting Optimization Beyond Hosting Plans…

We’re often asked about the importance of HTML coding knowledge when it comes to managing WordPress Hosting. Is all knowledge valuable? Or, can you scrape by completely without any coding skills? Learning coding has never been easier than in 2019. You can literally Google up whatever coding language you want to learn and a whole cornucopia of good things are delivered to you. But working in the digital world is not all about coding. The field of knowledge work in the digital age spans a wide variety of skills. Not all of those skills are technical in nature or involve any coding: People…