Guides

When talking about web design trends, one thing that readily comes to mind is the suggestion that they are, by nature, temporary. It’s true that such trends come and go in the world of web design. A web design trend could make a big splash—like the hit counters button did—and be everywhere one day, then […]

The term ‘bare metal’ gets used loosely in hosting. Sometimes it means a dedicated physical server with no virtualization layer. Sometimes it means unmanaged dedicated hosting. Sometimes it means something between the two. This article cuts through the terminology, explains what bare metal actually means in a hosting context, and gives you a framework for…

Your WordPress membership content could be circulating on public forums for free right now, and you wouldn’t know it until your revenue starts to drop. Many site owners rely on simple password protection, which does nothing to stop a member from sharing direct download links with non-paying users. The good news is that you don’t

When you visit a website for the first time, it probably doesn’t take you long to judge whether the website is “good” or “bad.” It’s simple: Either you like it or you don’t. Either it’s easy to navigate or it’s not. First impressions mean a lot in the world of website design and marketing. Marketing

Password-based SSH authentication is the most common entry point for brute-force attacks on Linux servers. SSH key authentication replaces the password with a cryptographic key pair: a private key that never leaves your local machine, and a public key that lives on the server. This guide walks through the complete setup, from key generation to…

Of all the websites online across the entire globe, WordPress is the Content Management System (CMS) which powers a full 27% of them, and that should give you some idea of the dominance that WordPress has as site management software. But that’s not the only reason you should choose WordPress as your eCommerce site – If

Core Web Vitals are Google’s set of user experience metrics that directly affect search rankings. Three of them, Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Interaction to Next Paint (INP), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), have specific thresholds that distinguish good performance from poor. Your hosting infrastructure is directly responsible for two of them and partially responsible for…

The most frustrating part of running a WooCommerce store is watching a customer add a product to their cart only to disappear at the final second. You did the hard work of getting them to your site, but you miss out on the sale. When shoppers leave your products sitting in an open tab, they

I was recently doing some updates to a website that had hundreds of registered users. The updates required checking to see if a specific user meta field was empty or not. Rather then opening every single user and checking I decided to add a new column to the Users dashboard. This way I could skim

Dedicated server plans are differentiated by processor, RAM, storage configuration, and bandwidth. Picking the wrong tier means either paying for capacity you don’t use or capping out before your application is ready to need more. This guide walks through how to match your workload requirements to the right plan, using InMotion Hosting’s current server lineup…