What is WordPress Hosting? Updated on May 16, 2025 by Carrie Smaha WordPress Hosting is a specialized web hosting service optimized for WordPress websites, offering enhanced speed, security, and support. This article explains the different types of WordPress Hosting and helps you determine the best fit for your site. Continue Reading
IDE Vs Text Editor (Which Is Best For You?) Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting Much of the work you will accomplish in the course of updating and maintaining websites can be made significantly easier through the use of a good text editor or integrated development environment (IDE). Who doesn’t want to work smarter instead of harder? If you are using some default text editor or web interface for editing system files, it’s like digging a hole with a spoon instead of a hydraulic-powered backhoe. It makes Continue Reading
How to Become a Social Media Manager Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting A social media manager is a person responsible for managing all the social media accounts for an individual, brand, or company (entity). People in these roles typically work hand-in-hand with the entity they represent in order to ensure all social media posts and content are on brand for that entity and consistent with their style and tone of voice. Continue Reading
Favorite SEO Blogs from Around the Web Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting In the search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) world, it’s often difficult to know to where to turn, and what projects to tackle. So much is required to form a well-rounded search strategy. There’s the technical considerations, making sure your site is adequately crawl-worthy, the softer skills like content generation, and keyword targeting. There’s a mix of both harder and softer skills. Once you’ve identified a good strategy, what kind of data will you measure and how will you know if the data you’ve chosen to measure indicates what you think it does.Continue Reading
Understanding How to Get a Dedicated Server for Gaming Updated on January 6, 2026 by InMotion Hosting While most modern online video games provide their own servers, some games such as Minecraft or Valheim allow users to create servers on 3rd party services. By creating your own dedicated gaming server, you can set up a persistent online gaming environment for you and your friends to use whenever you want. In this article, we will discuss the purpose of dedicated gaming servers and explore some of the benefits of setting up your own server.Continue Reading
Text Vs Blocks Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting You have no doubt noticed that the WordPress approach to content creation is changing. The emphasis has shifted more toward on-page editing in the browser. This essentially means blocks over text. The pros and cons of taking a content first approach as opposed to an all-in-one design and content approach can produce different results. Each approach provides unique opportunities as well as trade-offs.Continue Reading
RIP: Brackets Text Editor Reaches End Of Life Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting The Brackets text editor, a “modern, open source text editor that understands web design,” is reaching its end of life, and will no longer be supported by Adobe. However, the life of the project, to whatever extent possible, may continue on the original GitHub page, which will remain open.Continue Reading
WordPress Costs Over Long Term Growth Updated on March 19, 2025 by InMotion Hosting WordPress is a great content management system to get your website started and support you as your business grows. As you probably already know, WordPress is free software. This means it’s free for you to use the software, but many goods and services associated with managing a website carry their own costs. In this article, you’ll see how website costs can be budgeted, so you can make informed financial decisions.Continue Reading
Rank Math SEO Plugin Review Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting There are a lot of SEO helper tools on the market. And it’s getting more difficult to try them all. In this article, you will get a closer look at the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress and how it can help your website pages and posts make a better showing for search engines.Continue Reading
Stolen Content: How to Find and Remove It Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting A popular question we see asked is “How to find and remove stolen content?” If you come across your content on another website it’s a natural response to wonder how it got there and what you can do to get it taken down.Continue Reading
Citing Sources in Blog Posts Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting Citing sources gives your work an extra layer of authority. It doesn’t do all of the work for you, but with the power of a simple citation you can import virtually unlimited bodies of knowledge into your own work without having to cover all that ground yourself. You can point to the experts, reference the gurus, and at the very least provide extra context to the information you are presenting.Continue Reading
2021 Make WordPress Hosting Team Reps Announced Updated on January 23, 2024 by Guest Contributor The 2021 Make WordPress Hosting Community team announced new team representatives on March 30 following a nomination process and request for feedback. The Hosting Community team was established to help create a community for hosts and hosting companies that host WordPress. The team works to improve the WordPress’ end-user experience in various hosting environments through industry collaboration and user education. Continue Reading
What is LiteSpeed? Updated on January 22, 2025 by Carrie Smaha In addition to web server software such as Apache, there are other web server software options available. One of these alternatives is LiteSpeed Web Server. Unlike Apache, LiteSpeed is proprietary software and is not free. In exchange for this increased cost, LiteSpeed offers better performance and newer features than similar web server software.Continue Reading
Data Center Automation Overview Updated on May 3, 2024 by InMotion Hosting While reading about current web hosting technologies, you have likely seen mention of automation being used in data center operations. Data center automation is becoming increasingly popular for large-scale data centers and offers clear benefits for both hosting providers and end users. By automating the deployment of operating systems, software packages, and server configurations you can increase productivity, reduce overhead, and provide a more reliable experience overall. In this article we will explore the concept of data center automation and discuss some of the benefits of automating data center operations.Continue Reading
What is IPMI? Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting One of the underlying technologies of many data center operations is IPMI. IPMI stands for Intelligent Platform Management Interface and allows remote users to interact with servers independently of the server itself. Tasks such as installing Continue Reading