Tweet Last week we took a look at the first 5 things to do before a big event hits your website. Items such as using a CDN, static content, lots of RAM, and using the right software all play a major role in having a successful outcome. Today we’ll finish the list with the last […]

Tweet Expecting a large influx of website traffic to your online store? Are your products being featured on a TV show like The Today Show or Good Morning America? Odds are unless you’re already a big company, your hosting account is probably not ready for this burst of heavy traffic. Not being prepared will likely […]

As of June 1st, having regular FTP enabled on your website invalidates PCI. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) is what governs the rules and regulations for securing credit card data.

If you’re an ecommerce merchant and accept credit cards, you are required to be PCI compliant. Failure to be PCI compliant can subject your company to fees and fines.

Last Tuesday was an exciting time for one of our clients. It was exciting for us as well.

eShave, one of our ecommerce hosting clients, appeared on the Today Show segment “Jill’s Steals and Deals”. This news segment features a few select products that have extreme discounts. It is very popular throughout the country, and can result in 250,000 or more visitors to a featured website in a few short hours.

Your domain name and SSL certificate are important pieces of digital real estate. Don’t let them expire, or you could not only lose sales, but lose your internet name forever. Take one simple step to make sure these deadlines are never missed.

Google loves to make the web a faster place. They are obsessed with fast websites. So obsessed that they’ve made page speed one of the ranking factors for their search index (but remember there are over 200 ranking factors, so it’s not the end-all and be-all of search ranking).

And now Google has released an add-on for web servers (Apache) that aims to make websites even faster.

In our last blog post, we discussed how your web site’s speed is very important when it comes to making more sales. We also demonstrated how our average hosting account is TWO to THREE times FASTER than other hosts offering ecommerce services.

How do we prove it? With a challenge of course!

A recent Gomez study on website performance metrics found that 32% of consumers will abandon a website if it’s too slow. That’s almost one third of all shoppers!

A more alarming statistic: 37% of people surveyed said they would NOT return to a slow website. You could be losing more than a third of first time buyers if your site is not snappy.

Is your web host causing your site to be slow?

Last week we examined the truth behind uptime guarantees in hosting. A 100% uptime guarantee is not really what most people expect.

Today I’ll try to briefly discuss one of my pet peeves when it comes to hosting – The promise of unlimited hosting.

In part 1 of this series, we took a look at misleading claims by some web hosts with regards to the green movement. In today’s post, we’ll take a lot at the 100% uptime guarantee that many hosts proudly proclaim on their websites.

It’s not all it’s cracked up to be… it’s not even close in many cases.