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What is Shared Hosting?

December 17, 2020 by Ronnie H

Shared Hosting is a popular option for those looking to create their first website or get their business online. Instead of renting out an entire server, your website will have its own storage space and control panel on a device shared by multiple accounts. This server will power your website and make sure that it is accessible to anyone and everyone online, while a hosting company like InMotion Hosting maintains the server itself. In this guide, we’ll examine just how Shared Hosting works and discuss why it might be the right choice for you.

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What are NVMe Drives? Plus the Benefits of NVMe vs. SATA

December 18, 2020 by Jacqueem

If you’ve researched specifications for buying a personal computer (PC) at any point within the 2010s, you’ve likely noticed solid state drives (SSDs), USB 3.1, and HDMI have all become the new standards for highest possible data transfer rates. These hardware advancements mainly benefit office and home setups.

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What is Link Building?

December 8, 2020 by Sam Brown

Link building is an effective method of building up your website’s authority.

Whether you’re launching a new website or looking to expand the reach of an existing one, it can be used to make your site work harder for you.

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WooCommerce Holiday Prep: 3 Ways to Make Your eCommerce Site Shine

November 30, 2020 by Sam Brown

Is your online store ready for holiday shoppers? If not, it’s time to do some WooCommerce holiday preparation.

The holidays are upon us! From now through Christmas, almost every retailer is going to experience an uptick in business.

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Making the Most of Linux Cloud Server Hosting – Advice from Managed Hosting

November 30, 2020 by Jacqueem

After talking with a system administrator (sysadmin) about Managed VPS Hosting, I wanted to ask someone else about unmanaged Linux servers. We generally recommend cloud servers for advanced Linux users who are comfortable in the command-line interface (CLI), or terminal. But sometimes, the best way to learn something is to just go for it and learn as you go.?

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What You Should Consider When Buying a Domain Name

November 27, 2020 by Arnel "Arnicus" Custodio

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Where can you buy a domain name? What other things should you be thinking about when you buy your domain name? If you find yourself wondering that, you’re not alone. Many business owners don’t know where to buy a domain name, or even what a domain name is.

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What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and How Does it Work?

November 25, 2020 by Ronnie H

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A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is something of a ‘cure-all’ for solving various issues on your website. CDNs are said to improve everything from site speed and security to account bandwidth usage. How is it that one upgrade can affect so much of a site’s performance? It all comes down to what CDNs actually do: get your site’s static content physically closer to your site’s visitors by distributing that content to other servers.

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What is High Availability?

November 25, 2020 by Jacqueem

Within recent years, virtual private server (VPS) Hosting has been a sweet spot between the affordability of shared hosting and the operational power of a dedicated server. The introduction of cloud infrastructures has taken that concept, and extended it even further. The possible uses for Linux VPS Hosting is almost endless.

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Refurbished Dedicated Servers – A Solid Hosting Solution

December 15, 2020 by Alyssa Kordek

Refurbished Dedicated Servers - An Alternative Option

When shopping for a dedicated server, you may find yourself looking for an affordable, yet reliable hosting solution. Newly built dedicated servers can be prohibitively expensive, making it difficult for small businesses or independent users to enter the field of dedicated hosting. Fortunately, Refurbished dedicated servers exist as an affordable and reliable dedicated hosting solution. In this article, we will discuss how InMotion Hosting certifies Refurbished Servers to ensure they meet industry standards.

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Making the Most of Managed VPS Hosting – A Linux Sysadmin’s Perspective

December 15, 2020 by Jacqueem

Once you truly understand what Linux VPS Hosting is, and how much you can do with it, you may have questions about what happens on the backend of the virtual private server.

What should be happening in the background of your managed VPS?

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