Website Care & Security

Plenty of people use WordPress to power their website or blog, and it makes sense to do so. However, it is only as good as your efforts to maintain and monitor it. If you find it a struggle to back up and update your site as often as you should, you may well benefit from…

When it comes to hosting your WordPress website, you have a choice between different types of hosting. Most people will choose regular or “shared” hosting over managed hosting. Shared hosting means that one physical server hosts multiple websites and the resources of that server are shared among many websites. This sharing of resources is the…

Do you pay attention to the address bar when you visit a website? Do you check to see whether it starts with HTTPS? You should, and in 2017 it will become even more important that you do. Google recently announced the release of Chrome 56 in January 2017 that will treat all standard HTTP pages…

Modern websites need the speed and stability that traditional single server hosting struggles to provide on a consistent basis. By combining multiple servers to handle your website traffic and data in a cloud optimised cluster, your website is not affected by any spikes in traffic or any technical issues that may occur with a single server.…

If you’ve done a page speed test on a website like GT Metrix, you might have come across a suggestion to remove query strings from static resources. If you right click > view source on your website, you may well see a number of URLs for your css or javascript files similar to http://www.mydomainname.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.10.2. The…

With page speed becoming such an important ranking factor in the search engines, it is highly recommended that you try and make your website load as fast as possible. Nobody likes a slow website, and may visitors will often abandon your website and go elsewhere if your site is taking too long to load. Fortunately,…

There is currently an ongoing botnet attack targeting WordPress websites with the username “admin”. Whilst the specific goal of the attack is unknown, botnets can be used to perform DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, send spam and perform a number of other illegal activities. The botnet attack is rumoured to using more than 90,000…