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Category Archives: Web Hosting
What is Web Hosting and Domain Name?
When you create a website, you need two things to make it accessible to the public: web hosting and a domain name. Web hosting is the service that stores your website’s files and makes them accessible to visitors. When someone … Continue reading
All UltimateWB web hosting come with FREE SSL!
We are happy to announce that all UltimateWB web hosting packages now come with free SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)! SSL encrypts data passed between your web server and your website visitor’s internet browser, to keep private information private and data secure. … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Web Hosting
Tagged comodo, comodo ssl, free ssl, premium ssl, ssl, standard ssl, web hosting, wildcard ssl
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Wix charges you and posts ads on your website in “Connect Domain” plan
One would imagine that if you are paying each month for your website to be hosted online, instead of using free hosting, you would not be forced to display ads on your website. There’s a good reason to not want ads … Continue reading
Posted in Compare Website Builders, Web Hosting
Tagged ads, connect domain, custom email address, domain name, google adsense, web hosting, Wix, wix ads
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Wix does not allow you to add SSL to your websites
With Google pushing for all websites to be hosted with SSL, to protect personal data and increase website security, Wix still does not allow you to add SSL to your website. It is currently a feature request their customers are … Continue reading
Posted in Compare Website Builders, Web Hosting, Website Security
Tagged google, google ranking, hosted soltuion, hosted website builder, seo, ssl, ssl certificate, Wix
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Google Uses HTTPS (SSL) as a Website Ranking Signal
Last year in August, Google announced that it would use “HTTPS” as a ranking signal. HTTPS denotes that a website’s server has SSL installed, a security technology to encrypt the transfer of data, between the web server and user internet browser … Continue reading
Why use “WWW” for your website?
You have 2 options for the url display of your website – with the “www” in the beginning, or without the “www”, otherwise known as a “naked domain”. That terminology itself might persuade you to lean towards the “www” version for your website, and … Continue reading
Posted in Domain Names, Web Hosting, Website Security
Tagged .htaccess, alphabet, domain name, domain redirect, google, naked domain, non-www, security, twitter, website speed, www
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FileZilla Upgrade: new FTP settings to connect/upload files without repeat errors
With the upgrade of FileZilla, it requires many of you to update your connection settings and avoid getting repeat connection errors. Now, rather than using the host name ftp.your-website.com, you should be using sftp://ftp.your-website.com , and use port 22 (to open … Continue reading
Posted in Web Hosting
Tagged connect to server, connection error, download files, filezilla, filezilla error, ftp, ftp issues, sftp, upgrade, upload files
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How to switch your web hosting/website builder AND Keep Your SEO/Ranking/Traffic
All the hard work into creating your website, building links to your webpages and celebrating your first page ranking on Google…you don’t want to lose all that after switching your web hosting and/or website builder. So how to keep your … Continue reading
Posted in Compare Website Builders, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Web Hosting
Tagged clean urls, compare website builders, cross-browser compatibility, cross-platform compatibility, downloadable software, hosted solution, pretty urls, responsive, responsive app, search engine optimization, self-hosted solution, seo, seo tool, site ranking, web traffic, Wix
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Custom (proprietary) web hosting control panels vs cPanel
In an earlier post, “Best web hosting control panel? cPanel“, we discussed reasons we like to use cPanel and offer it free in all of the UltimateWB web hosting packages available. CPanel is the web hosting control panel where you … Continue reading
Posted in Web Hosting
Tagged 1&1, cpanel, custom web hosting control panel, dreamhost, horde, horde fetchmail, hosted web solution, ipage, IXwebhosting, liquidweb, mediatemple, netfirms, network solutions, rackspace, saas, switch web hosting, transfer content, transfer database, transfer email, web hosting choice, web hosting flexibility
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What is SaaS, pros and cons for using it for your website
No typo, we are talking about SaaS – the acronym for “Software as a Service”. It means that you pay to get access to the software online; once you stop paying, you lose that access. The software and associated data are … Continue reading
Posted in Compare Website Builders, Web Hosting
Tagged bigcommerce, hosted solution, ning, saas, Shopify, socialgo, software as a service, vistaprint, volusion, web hosting, weebly, Wild Apricot, Wix
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