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  Updated January 28, 2020   You sometimes hear the term “99.9% uptime guaranteed” but what does this mean and why is it important for your business? How can you minimize downtime and what tools can you use to measure your website’s uptime?   What is uptime? Uptime is a term used to describe the […]

What is the Best VPS for WordPress?

Last Updated: March 9, 2023

Why a VPS is the right choice to grow your WordPress blog WordPress is the world’s most widely used content management system. The W3Techs market-share portal shows that WordPress is used by 27% of the sites it monitors, representing 59% of the content management system (CMS) market. If you don’t know, W3Techs is legit. “We […]

What is CentOS, and Why Should You Care?

Last Updated: March 9, 2023

Being Linus Torvalds The story of Linux Things you wanted to know about CentOS but were afraid to ask CentOS is a particular distribution (aka distro) of the Linux operating system. Let’s look at Linux first to get a sense of that general technology and community, then take a direct look at this particular variation […]

Hosting is critical to ecommerce success. For instance, your technology will hugely impact speed, which is fundamental to consumer satisfaction and search engine optimization. Performance gains are just one of the many reasons a virtual private server (VPS) is the best choice for ecommerce growth. The need for speed is reflected in the numbers Shared […]