Security is so important to a website’s longevity and success. For one, if your website is constantly live, and then down, Google is going to penalize you – between crawls, this might be fine. However, for any site that is constantly up or down, the rankings for your site will decrease until you fix the issue. If ...
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What is the most important aspect to a website? What a great question. Some will say SEO. Others will say the theme. Some will say the content on the site itself. However, one area that can never be overlooked is the site’s security. Over the years, I have had to learn the hard way just how important security is – ...
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Over the past week, I’ve had some rather big issues around the CPU usage of my WordPress websites. To give you a background to this: The hosting plan was with GoDaddy Entrepreneur business dedicated hosting, which has a 4 CPUs There are 5 WordPress websites on the server Jetpack had notified me that my main website went ...
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It’s probably one of the biggest migrations a website owner can make, possibly apart from moving from Blogger to WordPress: changing from a shared host to a dedicated host. It’s something that every website should, and really need to, do as their traffic starts to gain serious numbers. However, it is a huge change ...
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