…despite your hosting company telling you to do so. In my previous post (from ages ago because I don’t write things on this blog often enough as I’m busy working on other people’s websites) I wrote about being told by tech support at Bluehost that my client should be using Cloudflare. I wrote back and pointed out why that wasn’t going to happen. Here is another reason to avoid Cloudflare. … Continue reading →
Probably not. Maybe. But probably not. Should you put in a support ticket with your hosting company it’s likely (based on my personal experience) that the very first response they will have is to tell you “you are using too many resources.” Because if the problem is you, not them, they don’t have to do any work. You may ask “What are these resources I’m using too many of?” Good … Continue reading →
What hosting company should you use for your website? There are always going to be opinion on this. Those opinions are always gonna differ. Things are going to change. Companies that were good will go south. New players will join the game. Amazon.com is offering hosting. I haven’t used it but it might be great and worth your time to investigate. I have used Bluehost, MidPhase and StartLogic. Bluehost has … Continue reading →
Geocities? Wix? Squarespace? WordPress? Which should I choose? The following post is mostly an email I wrote to a client. She was considering using Squarespace to host her website and asked me to evaluate this choice. I actually read the entire TOS/user agreement. I never do that except when someone is paying me to do it. 🙂 Who knows what I’ve agreed to. Everything that follows is from an email … Continue reading →