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Multi Website Hosting Plans are here!

The long awaited Multi-site Hosting Plans have arrived! Hosting Plans represents a fundamental shift in how you purchase and manage web hosting for your websites going forward. Multi Website Hosting Plans Simply put, a Hosting Plan is a wrapper that can contain one or more web hosting packages (websites) using a monthly or annual payment. […]

Why Use a Subdomain as a Development Area?

When developing a new website, it’s important to have a separate environment for testing and development. This way, you can make changes to your code without affecting your live site. One way to create a separate environment is to use a subdomain. A subdomain is a part of a domain name that is separated by […]

WordPress Staging Environment

Sites on our WordPress-optimised platform have access to a full staging environment. Staging allows you to make a clone of a live WordPress site to a staging server in moments. You can then make changes without affecting the live site. Once those changes are completed, clone them back to the live server. Why use WordPress […]

New One-Click Maintenance Mode tool

When developing a site you may want to put up a maintenance page. You can use the New Maintenance Mode tool to do that. The maintenance page can be bypassed using a password, so only selected users can view the progress of the website’s development. The tool is accessed directly from your hosting account. It’s now just a simple ‘one-click’ setup […]

Use Let’s Encrypt to secure your website

What is Let’s Encrypt Let’s Encrypt is a non-profit certificate authority that provides free SSL/TLS certificates to encrypt website traffic. It is a key player in promoting online security and privacy, making it easy for website owners to secure their sites with HTTPS. Let’s Encrypt works to automate the certificate issuance process, allowing website administrators […]