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Web Design, WordPress

WordPress SEO: The Source Of All Guides

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Table of Contents: SEO Overview What is SEO? Why SEO is Important for Your Website? WordPress SEO Best Practices Choose an SEO-Optimized WordPress Theme: Change Your “Permalinks” Structure to an SEO-Friendly Form: Create A “Sitemap” for Your WordPress Site: Register Your Website on Google Search Console: Use “Categories and Tags” Properly in WordPress: Internal Linking is Important: Add and Update Your Content Regularly: Focus on Content Quality: Do Keyword Research: Install a WordPress SEO Plugin: Top 5 WordPress SEO Plugins   Yoast SEO Plugin   SEMrush Plugin   All in One SEO Pack Plugin   Rank Math Plugin   SEOPress Plugin Performance and Security for better WordPress SEO   Optimize your WordPress Website Performance   Optimizing Your WordPress Website Security Conclusion   Welcome to the most comprehensive guide on the Internet for mastering WordPress SEO.  First of all, improving your WordPress SEO is not an option if you want more traffic, revenue, or conversions from your website. You might have heard that WordPress is SEO friendly, and this is why it’s the most popular and used content management system. Despite WordPress generating high-quality code that follows the SEO best practices, you need to do more work to enhance and optimize your website if you seek a better ranking on search engine pages.  In our guide, we’ll be covering the WordPress SEO from the ground up, so you’ll find a table of contents to make it easy for you to browse through the different parts of it. SEO Overview  We know that the process of optimizing WordPress for search engines looks intimidating for beginners, but don’t worry, it’s not that complicated. Let’s learn the basics first and then try to apply what you learned and you’ll feel the difference. What is SEO?  SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. “SEO” is an expression used to express the process of optimizing a website for a better ranking on search engines to get more organic traffic.  Optimizing a website for search engines like Google, Bing, Yandex, or so on is about creating that website well coded and formatted, making it easy for search engines to find your website and understand its content properly.  When people search the web for any topic you write about, your search-engine-optimized content will appear in a higher ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs) and you’ll get more traffic/visitors visiting your website. Why SEO is Important for Your Website?  Search engines are the biggest source of traffic on the Internet, which makes them the most targeted source to get more traffic to a website. The point is search engines decide how to rank websites based on some advanced algorithms. They use these algorithms to understand the websites’ content and properly rank them on search engine results pages. However, these algorithms are not perfect. They still need help from website owners to understand the website content and to properly rank the website on the search engine results pages.  The point here is, if your website is not well-optimized for search engines, the search engine algorithms will not understand your website content and will not know how to rank it, and in this case, you are more likely to lose a lot of traffic.  The importance of SEO lies in optimizing your website for search engines to maximize the odds of getting more and more traffic as they are the biggest source of traffic on the Internet. WordPress SEO Best Practices The process of optimizing your website for search engines isn’t too complicated as you might think. And if you’re already using WordPress, you don’t have to be a tech geek to follow the search engines optimizations best practices. Let’s start by explaining some actionable steps towards optimizing a WordPress website for search engines. 1.Choose an SEO-Optimized WordPress Theme:  When it comes to optimizing a WordPress website for search engines, the first step is always to make sure to choose a well SEO-Optimized WordPress theme. A well SEO-optimized theme doesn’t mean to pick a well-looking one only. Still, you need to pick a theme that has a clean code that will give you two main advantages, the first one is, it will load fast, and the second is, the theme will be optimized to generate HTML code that follows the search engine optimization standards.  Therefore, you must choose a theme that is built with SEO in mind or in other words an SEO-friendly theme. When you look for a theme, try to look for one that offers features designed specifically to improve your SEO. Fortunately, there are hundreds of themes available that will suit your needs on both sides, well-designed and SEO-friendly. 2.Change Your “Permalinks” Structure to an SEO-Friendly Form:  Permalinks are short for “Permanent Link”, and they are the URLs that point to your website’s individual pages, posts, and other content. WordPress offers many options for automatic permalink types, some of them are based around numbers like the “Plan and Numeric” which aren’t perfect since they have no useful information for either search engines or users; instead, you can go with the “Post Name” option since it expresses clearly what the content of the page is about. Let’s see some examples: Non-SEO Friendly Permalinks: “https://v2.hostilica.com/blog/193847?p=2894/” SEO Friendly Permalinks: “https://v2.hostilica.com/blog/how-to-install-wordpress”  Notice that the SEO-Friendly permalinks are readable and the visitor can easily guess what he’ll see on the page by just looking at the page URL. On the other hand, with the Non-SEO Friendly permalinks, the user cannot guess what he’ll find on the page by looking at the page URL. Using SEO Friendly permalinks structure will make it easy for both humans and search engines to understand your website’s content, increasing your chances of getting a better ranking in search engine results pages. 3.Create A “Sitemap” for Your WordPress Site: A “Sitemap” is a list of all of your website pages and other content, it’s usually organized into a hierarchy and it provides a way to see how your website is structured and what it includes. The primary

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What is IPv6

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A long time ago, when the Internet started booming, we realized that IPv4 isn’t going to be enough to cover everyone to access the Internet. That’s why IPv6 was created in order to satisfy the deficiency of IP addresses caused by the limitations of IPv4.   What is IP in the first place? IP is short for internet protocol which is the main set of rules that governs the exchange or transmission of data between devices on separate networks. IP-based authentication is a means of verifying a network’s integrity by authenticating the source and destination of an IP packet. The IP address identifies each computer on the internet protocol address block. A network administrator can mark a specific IP address as trusted or “hide” from users and/or servers to prevent unauthorized access. Similarly, a network can be “masked” in order to allow users to send data to servers behind a firewall but remain anonymous (and thus, maintain privacy) while still allowing all other data transmitted over the internet protocol to be returned by the sender.   IPv6 the latest version IPv6 which is short for Internet Protocol version 6 refers to the newest version of the IP communications protocol, the packet data transport layer that offers a more reliable and secure structure for communication over the Internet and a location and identification system for devices on private networks. IPv6 has significant improvements over the previous IPv4 and incorporates several important security enhancements. These improvements included the use of an IP-based authentication mechanism for servers and applications, improvements in the transfer of malformed or incorrect IP packets, and improvements in bandwidth utilization. The first significant improvement in IPv6 is that IPv6 uses 128 bit addressing against IPv4 32 bit addressing, to put that into perspective IPv4 allows for about 4.29 billion addresses. In contrast, IPv6 allows for about 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses which allow for every person on earth to have billions of addresses for every device they own. Another major improvement to IPv6 is that there is no longer a need to use a port number for outgoing packets. The address that you use for a computer on the internet protocol layer can be anywhere from zero to sixteen. A packet lost within this range will be subject to an IP-wide lookup. While this might not seem like much, if there are many computers on a subnet or even a single network, each of which uses a different port, an IP packet can be returned to a sender using any one of the sixteen IP addresses, and the search will be completed for all of them. So why isn’t it used everywhere? As we mentioned briefly in the IPv4 deficiency article, IPv6 isn’t widespread yet and that’s because of compatibility. The problem with IPv6 is that it isn’t backward compatible with IPv4, so for example accessing a website that uses IPV6 from an IPv4 addressed device just wouldn’t work. Also moving to purely IPv6 equipment or dual stack equipment that can operate with both protocols is so expensive for ISPs and doesn’t give many benefits to the average customer, so ISPs are in no hurry to do the change.

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News, Web Hosting

Is IPv4 Running Out of The Market?

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In early September of 2008, Google launched its new web browser, Google Chrome. At the time, Google predicted, “In the next few months, half of all Internet users will have access to a high speed connection that provides data storage over both the Internet speed.” This prediction came just months before the company released its new browser. As it turns out, half of all Internet users now have access to a high speed connection that provides data storage over both the Wi-Fi speed and traditional broadband speed. All told, there are now 4.66 billion Internet users globally. The only way to satisfy Google’s promise of fast web access is to implement features that require both the Internet’s bandwidth and the processing power of IPv4 technology. And unfortunately, the Internet’s bandwidth has been steadily decreasing. As a matter of fact, it’s only been a matter of years that broadband connections have become so slow that it’s become a real pain to use them. We are also currently in the early stages of what is referred to as “IPv4 exhaustion.”   But what is IP exhaustion and why it’s happening “IPv4 exhaustion” refers to the exhaustion of the current pool of allocated IP addresses. Since the early 1980s, when the Internet began experiencing unprecedented growth, exhaustion has always been expected as the number of IP addresses allocated increased dramatically. The Internet’s technical complexity is made possible by many IP networking devices and networks, all of which are using up IP addresses to communicate with each other and perform functions on the Internet. There is currently less than enough space left for all the existing IP addresses to become used by the Internet. In order to cope up with this growing challenge, there are now strategies that help businesses save on resources in addressing all the incoming traffic. The heart of the problem is the fact that the quantity of IP addresses that are being assigned daily is decreasing. The Internet Protocol (IP) was initially developed to be an international IP network that would support electronic mail and file sharing between users on a global scale. However, this technology quickly became used for other purposes, including establishing reliable inter-office mail service and routing of voice calls on the Internet. This is where it became clear that there wasn’t going to be a significant increase in the number of IP addresses that are available through IPv4 or expansion initiatives. Instead, there were going to be significant increases in the number of unique IP addresses being assigned in the future. In order for us to continue to utilize the valuable IP network resources we already have, it makes sense for us to implement a system that will allow us to more precisely allocate those resources.   Solution and why isn’t it adopted: By now, you’re telling yourself of course people have found a solution. IPv6 has been available since 1999, and it utilizes 128 bit for addressing against IPv4 32 bit addressing. This means that the number of IPv6 addresses is 1028 times larger than the number of IPv4 addresses. So it can support the Internet for a very long time. But here is the catch, IPv6 isn’t backward compatible with IPv4 and shifting to IPv6 is expensive, so of course companies are in no hurry to change to IPv6. If you’re interested in learning more about the latest innovation in IP networking, you might want to visit the ipv6 article

Linux

CentOS reign is over! A new era for web servers

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What is CentOS? CentOS is a Linux distribution targeted towards Web servers. Centos was founded by Gregory Kurtzer and Lance Davis in 2004. CentOS is basically a one to one copy of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) but without RHEL branding and commercial support and is built from the same source code. CentOS appealed to a broad market since it was free and as reliable as Red Hat this contributed to gaining a large market share for a couple of years, making it the most used Web server in 2010 by a whopping 30% market share in web servers.   Red Hat acquiring CentOS in 2014 and IBM acquiring Red Hat in 2019 In 2014, the CentOS team had a market share bigger than their resources can support. So the team accepted a deal with Red Hat. This was a win-win deal for both sides. Red Hat took control of an entity that complemented their brand and CentOS developers got the resources they needed to continue working on the centOS project. However, a part of the deal involved electing a new governance board for CentOS with a mandatory and permanent Red Hat majority; this made it more acquisition than a deal since CentOS is now funded and controlled by Red Hat. In 2019 IBM officially acquired Red Hat, which led to the decision of discontinuing CentOS.   Death of CentOS and hail CentOS Stream In December 2020, Redhat officially announced the death of the CentOS project. This meant that the current version CentOS 8 will be the last version and adding salt to injury, it will not enjoy the 10-year update it should have, sending it to the grave much earlier by the end of 2021 instead of 2029. Red Hat also announced users will need to migrate to RHEL or CentOS, which was originally announced back in September 2019. For those who don’t know what CentOS stream Linux is, As CentOS community Manager Rich Bowen “ the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux” meaning it’s an update preview of RHEL. Many people consider Stream Linux as a beta version of RHEL; however, the distribution FAQ clearly states that CentOS Stream will not be “the RHEL beta test platform”.   Alternatives: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL): The ultimate goal of discontinuing CentOS is to move users to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Yes, it is a sly move but will save you a lot of time if you have the money for it. Red Hat already released a script for a smooth migration. Stream CentOS: Moving to Stream is an option if you want to stay within the Red Hat ecosystem and don’t want to pay for RHEL. We wouldn’t recommend this option because it can’t have the same reliability as either CentOS or RHEL since, by nature, Stream is a work in progress and always will be, even if the distribution FAQ says that it will not be used as a beta testing platform. ROCKY LINUX: Right after Red Hat announced that CentOS was finished, one of the original founders of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer announced another clone of RedHat named ROCKY LINUX after the late co-founder of CentOS Rocky McGaugh. However, we are not sure that it will have the same stability and continuity as CentOS. Rocky Linux will be released in Q2 2021. ORACLE LINUX: ORACLE Linux has been around for some time and is another one to one copy from Red Hat offering the same reliability and continuity of Red Hat since ORACLE backs it. Migrating to ORACLE Linux will be very easy as ORACLE provided a script for it. However, the issue with ORACLE Linux isn’t a technical one but more of an ethical problem. Since every scrap of Red Hat Linux is open-source, anyone can make a clone of Red Hat, but the community has long criticized oracle for offering a paid version for technical support for a product that isn’t technically theirs.

WordPress SEO
Digital Marketing, SEO, Web Design, WordPress

Why WordPress is the Best CMS for SEO?

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Are you having trouble with your website SEO? Suffering from low traffic? Are you looking for the best SEO-Optimized CMS? Then you must put WordPress into your considerations. Since WordPress was released in 2003, it has never stopped growing. In fact, according to W3Techs WordPress now powers more than 39% of all the websites on the internet, and it powers more than 63.7% of all websites whose content management systems. If you are wondering why WordPress is so popular? There are many reasons behind its popularity such as high performance, ease-of-use, redundant themes and plugins, and many more. But when it comes to online marketing and search engine optimization WordPress is the best. Here are the reasons why WordPress shines in the SEO part:   WordPress Cares About User Experience Most of WordPress’s themes and plugins are well-crafted to work together to make websites more user-friendly and professional. which makes visitors enjoy and have a smooth experience on a WordPress website and stay longer on it. If you don’t know, Google search engine algorithms care about user experience and reward websites that provide a good user experience. So, WordPress helps you create a great user experience on your website that all search engines would love.   WordPress Support SEO-Friendly Permalinks (URLs) WordPress makes it easy for you to make your website’s URLs SEO-Friendly, for example instead of a URL like this “https://www.websiteName.com/blog/p=39883948PuU320/” you can make your website’s URL like “https://www.websiteName.com/blog/post/marketing-tips” this permalink is more human-readable that makes your user understand what your website is about just by looking at the URL. In addition to that, you can put your keywords in the URL which also helps search engines to understand what your website is about more easily which means your SEO-Friendly permalink doesn’t only look good and human-readable. It will also help you with your website search ranking.   WordPress Makes it Easy for You To Manage Metadata SEO metadata and titles help search engines understand your website content. They tell search engine crawlers what your web pages are all about. When you plug relevant keywords into your metadata and titles, your website becomes more likely to rank well for those keywords in the SERPs Search Engine Results Pages. You can easily install an SEO plugin such as Yoast SEO; this plugin helps you to manage all of your post’s metadata in just a few minutes.   WordPress makes it simple to optimize Your website’s images for SEO We all know that images are essential for blog posts. They help you make your posts more interesting and readable for visitors and improve visitors’ engagement on your website. But you need to optimize your images to help you with your website search engine optimization. For example, you need to add alt text (alternative text) to every image and resize them so they don’t slow down your page loading. Here are some examples of how you can optimize your website’s images with WordPress: WordPress allows you to create alt text (alternative text) for your images to add keywords as images description, and search engine crawlers will notice that and help you rank better. You can use a WordPress plugin that automatically creates alt text for each of your images. You can resize your images to improve your WordPress website performance and page loading.  And much more, with WordPress you can make your website’s images well-optimized and rank better on search engine results pages.   WordPress Cares about Performance Website performance and Page Speed is an important Google ranking factor in mobile search, so if you have a slow website, your website will be pushed down on Google SERPs. WordPress has many amazing plugins that help you improve your website performance and page speed from many angles such as optimizing images for fast load, compressing your documents and past images to boost your website speed, and much more. You can read further about WordPress optimization and the Best WordPress optimization plugins to really understand all of the ins and outs of this topic.   WordPress is Mobile-Optimized Mobile usage has grown by 222% in the past seven years versus desktop usage. You can take a look at the statistics of mobile usage to realize how big it is. This means your website must be mobile-optimized otherwise, you’ll lose huge traffic. The great news here is if you’re using WordPress for your website, you don’t need to do anything because most WordPress themes are mobile-optimized already.   WordPress is easy to Integrate with Most Popular Software WordPress after all of this popularity and usage has become easy to integrate with the most popular software, which means you can easily integrate your WordPress website with social media campaigns, email marketing software, SEO tools, analytic tools, and more.  You will find that most good, popular software applications are easy to integrate with WordPress websites.   WordPress Has the Best SEO Plugins With WordPress, search engine optimization is made simple. All you need is to install the right plugins to simplify the process of making your website SEO better. Among all of CMS, WordPress has the best plugins for SEO, such as: Yoast SEO: This will help you optimize your website content and make better keyword-focused content, optimize your website metadata, titles and meta description, and much more. Google XML Sitemaps: Sitemaps are essential for helping search engine crawlers easily understand your website. With this plugin creating complex XML sitemaps is made easy, and every time you post a new article or create a new page, this plugin notifies search engine crawlers of your website’s new content. Google Analytics by MonsterInsights: With this plugin, you literally don’t need to leave your WordPress dashboard to see your Google Analytics reports, you can study your website pages in great detail and well-crafted statistics so you can optimize your content more and more, plus you can track your banner ads, affiliate links’ clicks from it, and many more powerful tools with this awesome plugin.   Are You Still Asking, What is the Best CMS for

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Web Design, WordPress

5 Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Website Performance

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After you understand the importance of page speed, let’s start on how to boost your website speed.  How to speed up your WordPress website and increase its performance surely is a very hot topic nowadays. Fortunately, there are easy ways to help you increase your WordPress website performance significantly. But why do you even need to care about your WordPress website performance and page load time? Your website performance and page load time are actively affecting the bounce rate of your website. Studies said that if your website page took more than 2 seconds, you would have about 47% bounce rate; besides that Google and other search engines consider the page load time as one of the most important ranking factors in their result pages. So, you need to take your WordPress website’s performance as a serious matter for your website’s success. In this article, we’ll tell you how to speed up your WordPress website speed and performance in the best ways possible, so let’s get started.   1. Choose a Good Hosting Provider: The very first reason that affects your website speed is your web hosting quality. So, if you are just starting your website, it’s fine to choose a shared hosting plan, but we recommend you to make sure that your hosting server storage type SSD; if you already have launched your WordPress website for a while and your traffic volume is increasing, you probably will need to upgrade your hosting plan either to a higher shared hosting package or to a VPS hosting.   2. Use an Optimized Lightweight WordPress Theme: A WordPress theme with too many elements, widgets, sliders, etc. could look very shiny, but if the theme has too many components with a higher page size, it will affect your page load time. Another important factor is theme optimization. You need to make sure that the theme is well-coded and don’t forget to look at its reviews and buy it from a trustworthy place.   3. Use a WordPress Caching Plugin: WordPress pages are “dynamic”, which means that they’re built on the fly when anyone visits a page or a post on your website to build a page, WordPress behind the scenes has to run a process to find the requested information, then display it to the visitor. This process has multiple steps to be done, so sometimes it could slow down your website when multiple users visit it at once. Here the caching plugin comes into play, it can make your WordPress website more than twice faster. The caching plugin role is that instead of going through the whole page generation process every time a user visits the page, it (caches) makes a copy of the page after the first time the page loads and then serves that cached version to every upcoming user.  There are many good WordPress caching plugins, but we recommend using WP Super Cache, it’s free!   4. Optimize Image Size: Images help you boost engagement on your WordPress website content, but they will negatively affect your website if you don’t optimize them. In fact, non-optimized images are one of the most common performance issues seen on beginner websites. So, you need to optimize your images to speed up your WordPress website. So, either manually optimizes the images using Photoshop, Chrome Pagespeed Insights extension, or any other tools, or you could use image optimization WordPress plugins such as Optimole or WP Smush. This way you’ll reduce your website images and improve your website performance and speed.   5. Regularly Update your WordPress Website: WordPress is frequently updated; each update offers new features and may contain security fixes. As a WordPress website owner/manager, you are responsible for keeping your WordPress website, themes, and plugins up to date with their latest versions. If you don’t update everything regularly, you may cause performance issues to your WordPress website or you may end up vulnerable to security threats.   To conclude Always put your WordPress website performance and page load time as one of the most important factors that affect your website/business success.

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What is FTP And How Does FTP Work?

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First of all, FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, and it’s a protocol used to communicate and transfer files between computers on a TCP/IP network (The Internet). In other words, FTP is a way to transfer files online. It’s also one of the oldest protocols that we still use today to move files around.   How does FTP Works? FTP connection needs two parties to be established on the network; to do that, you need to have permission by providing credentials to the FTP server. Some public FTP servers may not require credentials to access their files by the way. There are two communication channels while starting an FTP connection, which are the command channel and the data channel. The command channel initiates the instructions and responses. The data channel distributes the data. To transfer or get a file, you as an authorized user will use the protocol to request creating changes in the server, and then the server will grant you that access; this session is called Active Connection Mode.   How to use FTP? There are three ways to establish an FTP connection: command line, web browser, and FTP client. The oldest and simplest method is the command line, such as the terminal in Mac/Linux or the command prompt in windows. Many developers still use the command line to establish an FTP connection to transfer files as they develop a website for example. You can also use a web browser to establish an FTP connection with a server; usually, users use a web browser when they want to access large directories in the server, but it’s less reliable and slower than using an FTP client. The most popular way to establish an FTP connection today is to use an FTP client. It provides more freedom when comparing it to the command line and way faster than the web browser. So, the FTP client overall is a lot easier to manage and has more features such as it allows users to transfer large files and use the synchronizing utility, and more. In the end, you can now send and receive files from an FTP server. We wish you understood the FTP now and the different methods you can use to establish an FTP connection as we learned. 

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What is WHMCS Usage and Benefits?

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If you’re starting your own hosting business, or you are a web developer/designer who is bundling additional web hosting services to your customers then, you might have heard about WHMCS. In the article, we’ll learn more about WHMCS and why you should use it, so let’s start.   What is WHMCS? WHMCS stands for Web Hosting Manager Complete Solution; It provides you with a full web hosting management solution with a cart system that can integrate with your own business website so that customers can purchase web hosting services with a fully automated hosting business website. WHMCS is one of the cPanel products    Why use WHMCS?  If you would like to make your reseller hosting business fully automated and professional, WHMCS is one of your best options.   What Can WHMCS Do for You?  WHMCS unlike traditional cart systems, is specially made and designed for web hosting businesses, so it can be integrated with a wide variety of web hosting servers and related applications so when a customer purchases a service from your hosting website, it will do the full process, from collecting the payment, creating a user account for the customer to manage his service/s, to automatically provision the web hosting account on the hosting server.  The processes that we mentioned above can take hours of manual work from you as a web hosting provider, but WHMCS saves you this time and effort by automating the whole process.  In Addition to that, WHMCS have all of the tools you need to automate customer onboarding, service delivery, and management happen smoothly, here’re some of these great tools: Customer Support System Billing Management System Reporting System Fraud Management System Order Management System Domain Registration System  Also, WHMCS can be integrated with various other web hosting-related products. You can use it to automate provisioning services like VPN Accounts, VPS Hosting, Domains, Email Accounts, and much more.  to master reseller business, you should know the Difference between WHMCS and WHM 

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Business Emails, Web Hosting

What is business email and why should you use it?

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Once you have your website up and running on a Web Hosting service, then you should seriously consider switching your company’s emails to be business emails. When the email came out, many people thought of it as a niche and other technologies will replace it. But business email is still one of the main ways of communication in the business industry. Also, it’s the most professional way to communicate in the business industry. Key Benefits of Having Your Business Email with your Web Hosting The benefits of having you a business Email hosting comes in twofold which are technical and business benefits. Let us explain both sides.   Technical Benefits: Privacy: Using your email server gives your company’s email privacy. On the other hand, if you chose another mail service provider like (Google or Yahoo), you will be under their Terms of Service, so they can use your data in many ways to help them generate more revenue. Security: Privacy and security go hand in hand, so you should know that security is the second benefit without any surprise. That’s because when another company is taking control of your emails, then your emails can be a potential target to get hacked if that company gets hacked. There have been cases where companies got hacked and private information was leaked.   Business Benefits: Build your Business Credibility: Having a professional email like yourName@yourBrand.com adds more credibility to your business. Because it sounds more professional and also sends a signal that says you are serious about the business because your business email reflects your professionalism. Branding: As said, “First Impression is the Last Impression” the professional email gives instant recognition to your business that increases brand recognition among the market and your customers. A professional-looking business mail will also create a professional and more respectable image of your business, thus creating a professional perception among customers.   With HOSTILICA Web Hosting service, you will already get a hosting that can run your website quickly and efficiently, also consider that when you have a hosting account with a domain name you can make a professional email account that gives you all of the benefits mentioned above. Have a great successful business experience with us. 

Security, Web Hosting

What is SSL Certificate?

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When you launch your first website, you probably have heard the term “SSL Certificate” a lot, and you probably know that the SSL Certificate is for website security. Still, it would help if you learned more about the SSL Certificate, its benefits, why to set it up, and how, so let’s figure out all about the SSL Certificate in this article.   What is an SSL Certificate? First of all, SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, this technology helps to secure the internet connection and protect the transferred data between the browser and the web server; it encrypts and secures the data that passes through the connection between the server and browser to help prevent any data breach, and if any data were stolen from this connection it’d be impossible to decrypt.   HTTPS and SSL HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and the last ‘S’ is for secure. You’ll see the HTTPS part at the start of the domain in your browser; if the website is secured and have an SSL Certificate, you’ll see HTTPS, if not you’ll see HTTP which means that the website isn’t secure.   The Importance of the SSL and the Online Security On the internet, trust is the most important factor for your reputation, and websites that can prove that it takes security as a must can attract more visitors. So, SSL is always good even if the website was for a nonprofit, small business, blog, and any other website type. The most important reason the website must use SSL is to protect the information that’s sent between browsers and servers, so if the information is sensitive like credit card information, passwords, personal information, and so on, if there is no SSL all of this information can be stolen, but with SSL Certificate all of your information is encrypted and unreadable to anyone who tries to hack it. So, with an SSL certificate, your customers will feel safe when they are doing business with you.   Do I Need an SSL Certificate? As we mentioned above, SSL Certificate protects your sensitive information, but it also: Keep the transferred data between servers secured. Increase Google rankings for your website Build trust between your website and customers/visitors. Improve Conversion rates on any business website   Where can you buy an SSL Certificate? SSL Certificates are issued by Certificate Authorities (CAs). You can buy the SSL Certificate from any web hosting provider. Hostilica now is offering Free SSL from Here

Reseller, Web Hosting

What is Reseller Hosting and How to Get Started with It

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Many people dream of building an online business. One of the options is reseller hosting, enabling you to rent server space from your hosting provider like us HOSTILICA, GODADDY, etc. And then resell it to your customers. This type of business might be a perfect option for online marketers, entrepreneurs, digital agencies, and any ambitious person who looks forward to starting an online business. In this article, we’ll learn more about reseller hosting and how to get started with it. So, let’s get started.   What is Reseller Hosting? As we briefly mentioned earlier, Reseller Hosting Plans enable you to start your own hosting business using your provider’s servers. You pay your provider a monthly or annual fee depending on the resources you’re renting and the features with each plan, then you’re free to charge whatever you want from your customers.   Who can benefit from this business model?   There are many use cases for reseller hosting. For example, developers can offer their customers a hosting package for their websites for a flat fee. This might make things easier for their customers and offers the developers a long-term income for a reasonable investment. This is one of many use cases, but in general, anyone who wants to make extra money can start with reseller hosting. And by the way, you don’t need to be a hosting expert, as your provider like HOSTILICA will take care of most of the servers work for you such as server maintenance and security.   How to Get Started with Reseller Hosting?  Unlike other online businesses, reseller hosting doesn’t have many barriers to enter; all it takes is to subscribe to a plan and market your new business. So, anyone can easily start with reseller hosting with these three steps: 1. Choose a Reseller Hosting Plan As we mentioned earlier, the first step is to choose a Reseller Hosting plan to start your business with it. You will choose the right plan for you, depend on its offering, storage, numbers of accounts, and so on. In most cases, you will want to start with the first package, test your business model, and upgrade as you grow. HOSTILICA offers many FEATURES with all Reseller Hosting plans, such as overselling support, SSD Drives, 99.9% uptime guarantee, free SSL certificates, cPanel/WHM platforms, and much many more features to support you on your business journey.   2. Create Your Own Hosting Packages Once you have registered a reseller hosting plan, the next step is to create your own hosting packages. Making your hosting packages depends on your business plan, who’s your target audience, and so on. As we mentioned in our previous example about the developer who offers hosting services to their customers, in this case, you’d be targeting a customer who doesn’t care about paying a premium fee so that they don’t have to worry about making sure their websites are up and running smoothly all the time. So, once you have selected your niche, you will need to make suitable hosting plans for it with customized options to present as your strengths points in your target audience. Don’t forget to make sure to build a clean UI/UX design for your website, with clear, readable pricing tables for your plans, and don’t forget to highlight your features.   3. Market Your Business  Finally, once you have created your own hosting packages and outlined your business model, including your niche, who are your target audience, and what are their needs, all that’s left is to market your services. The hosting business can be a competitive market, but if you focus on offering the best service you can and carefully think about your business plan, you’ll have a very good chance to succeed in this market.   Conclusion If you were one of those who dream of starting their online business, especially in the web hosting industry, then you have got a clear overview of reseller hosting, which is one of the best ways to get your foot into the hosting industry whether you’re a freelancer or an entrepreneur. The steps are simple, as we mentioned above, just choose a reliable hosting provider, create your own hosting plans based on the targeted audience, and establish a good marketing campaign. We hope you enjoyed this article!

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