I’m going to cut right to the chase. Shared hosting is inadequate for your e-commerce site. Period. End of story. As a site owner, I admire the fact that you’ve made it this far running on the hosting that you’ve had. But that hosting company you’re with? The one that’s less than $20 a month? […]
Shared Hosting Won’t Cut It For Your E-commerce Site
John Locke Published August 28th, 2016 3 Comments on Shared Hosting Won’t Cut It For Your E-commerce SiteDiscussion: Best Managed WordPress Hosting
Each Saturday, at 10am PST, the WP-Tonic panel of WordPress experts discuss topics in WordPress, web design, web development, and marketing on the WP-Tonic podcast. This week, Jonathan and I talked about web hosting — what are the differences between the various types of hosting packages and companies, and who are the best managed WordPress […]
How Cheap Hosting Is Killing Your WordPress Webite
John Locke Published April 15th, 2016 No Comments on How Cheap Hosting Is Killing Your WordPress WebiteA lot of businesses are missing an opportunity. They are failing to capitalize on the investment they made in a website by using cheap hosting. Maybe it sounds absurd that you would invest four to five figures in a website, but hesitate to invest 29 dollars a month in your hosting. But it happens all […]
Integrating Google AMP and WordPress
In October of 2015, Google debuted a new project called AMP, or Accelerated Mobile Pages. The project is open-source, with other companies like Adobe, Twitter, Vox Media, BBC, The Guardian, and The New York Times also contributing to this project. So what is AMP? And why does it exist? For the last few years, web […]
The Truth About Slow Web Pages
Here’s a truth about slow websites that business owners don’t want to hear. Page speed directly affects how well your website supports your business objectives. There are two critical ways that slow web pages impact your business. First, page speed affect whether your potential customers become actual customers or not. A 2010 study by Gomez.com […]
SEO Is A Long Term Process
I was recently at a networking event with some other business owners, when the subject of local SEO came up. What I heard these businesspeople express were some common misconceptions about what search optimization is all about. I think most folks believe if you pay a marketing company a certain amount each month, they can […]
Load Google Fonts Asynchronously For Page Speed
Web developers who are mindful of user experience, performance, and SEO pay attention to page speed. If you’ve ever tested your website on
Using Kraken.io For WordPress Image Optimization
Before reading any further, let’s answer the question: Why do you need to optimize the images on your website in the first place? If you’re using your website to generate revenue for your business, then increasing conversions on your site, and increasing the number of warm leads that come to your website are things you […]
Where Can You Find Good WordPress Hosting?
You already know that good web hosting makes a difference in website performance. You realize that good hosting affects everything about your website, including customer conversion rates, bounce rates and search rankings. But choosing the best host for your particular needs isn’t easy. Search for “web hosting” and you’ll get thousands of results. Even if […]
Why Does Web Hosting Matter?
There are businesses that spend large amounts on developing a website, but cut corners when it comes to web hosting. What is web hosting? Why does it matter? Essentially, web hosting is the server space where your website resides. But isn’t it all the same? Just as the physical location of a business has an […]