SSD vs HDD Hosting: What’s the Difference

SSD vs HDD Hosting: What's the Difference

When selecting a fast hosting solution, you must consider many factors. Among them: choosing the right type of storage – SSD or HDD.

Historically, hard disk drives (HDD), also known as magnetic storage devices, have been the most common type of storage available. These drives have been around for decades and can store large amounts of data very cheaply. Magnetic storage devices include hard disk drives, magneto-optical drives (e.g. CDROMs, DVDs) tapes, and floppy disks.

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How to Add a Winning Brand Identity to Your WordPress Site

How to Add a Winning Brand Identity to Your WordPress Site Hero Image

When building your WordPress site, you should treat making your brand identity stand out as vital to your site’s success.

You need to ensure that your site aligns with your company’s image, goals, and values. You also need to remove any elements that might confuse visitors as to your objectives, personality, and investment in your own brand. To reach those goals, you need to find ways to add touches of your company’s personality while stripping out any extraneous information or references to other brands (like the maker of a WordPress theme).

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The Benefits of Personalizing Your Site Visitor’s User Experience

Personalized Marketing

Personalized marketing has become the buzzword of choice for modern marketers. In personalized marketing, one focuses on strategies that emphasize initiatives and messaging targeted at the individual prospective customer. Using different forms of automation and data analysis, the marketer communicates with the prospect in a manner tailored to that individual. It often includes using the prospect’s name, shopping preferences, and other data to make them feel like you are speaking directly to them. Continue reading –>

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Why is WordPress so Popular? 5 Features That Make it so Great

Why is WordPress so Great?

Millions of websites use WordPress as their content management system (CMS) of choice. As of 2017, researchers believe WordPress powers nearly 29% of all of the sites on the entire Internet, including nearly 15% of the top 100 websites in the world. With so much popularity for one CMS, you may ask yourself: “Why is WordPress so popular? What makes it so great?” Continue reading –>

InMotion Hosting Launches Powerful New Reseller VPS Hosting

As an industry leader in the web hosting space, thousands have enjoyed InMotion Hosting’s Reseller Hosting product. It allowed customers to become their own web hosts, using InMotion Hosting’s resources to run their businesses. Yet, many wanted a SSD Reseller Hosting option that offered even more power. To that end, we have developed our incredible new VPS Reseller Hosting plans.

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3 Ways to Offer Live Support to Your WordPress Site Visitors

Customer Support

When building a site to engage your customers, you actually want it to be able to interact with them. Sure, compelling words, pretty pictures, and entertaining videos can provide a lot of reasons for people to visit your site, but what if they need to talk to you? What if you want them to have a way to get an answer to their question right now, instead of a few days later (after you discover their email in your spam folder)?

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How to Set Up an eCommerce Website Using WordPress

How to Set Up an eCommerce Website Using WordPress Hero

WordPress, the world’s most popular content management system, powers over 40% of the Internet’s websites. Once a simple blogging platform, WordPress has evolved into a powerful site-building tool capable of meeting almost anyone’s needs. Among the most complicated sites to build on any platform, eCommerce sites rest firmly within the wheelhouse of today’s WordPress developer. So, how can you set up an eCommerce website using WordPress?

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5 Ways to Find Free Photos and Images You Can Use on Your Website

Free Image and Photo Resources

Whether sharing stories about your life or selling a product, images have become essential to the modern website. If you think about your own experience on the web you will probably agree that websites with great images and design draw and keep your attention better than those comprised almost entirely of text. And, those images need to be high quality. Indeed, research by Skyword found that content containing “compelling” images averaged 94 percent more views than those with less eye-catching pictures.

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How to Start Selling Domains

How to Start Selling Domains

The Internet provides literally thousands of different ways to make money online. One that has become popular in recent years – reselling hosting services – can be a great, low-risk way to do just that. But, did you know that you can also make money just by selling domains? In fact, selling domains can be even easier to set-up than reselling hosting. So, how do you start making money on the Internet by selling domains?

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What To Do If Your Site Falls Victim to Ransomware

What To Do If Your Site Falls Victim to Ransomware

Cyberattacks have been on the rise for some time. Cybercriminals have become increasingly sophisticated, finding more and more clever ways to breach the security of both individuals and businesses. When a business suffers a ransomware attack, especially on their website, it can devastate the company and paralyze its operations. While the threat will always exist, a few practices can help reduce the risk of infection. If a site still falls victim to a ransomware attack, knowing how to recover quickly can mean the difference between getting back to business as usual or going bust.

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How to Use Your Smartphone to Shoot Professional Looking Videos for Your Website

Smartphone Camera

Ever seen those billboards or commercials that brag that the whole thing was shot on a smartphone? You may have thought “yeah right.” Funny thing is, it was probably true! More and more producers working on tight budgets have turned to smartphones to meet their production needs on the cheap. Here is how you, too, can create videos and show them on your website using nothing more than your smartphone and a little know-how. Continue reading –>