InMotion Hosting’s New Agency Partner Program Turns Client Hosting Into a Growth Engine Posted on May 19, 2026 Jennifer Fan Designed for agencies managing multiple client environments, the program rewards consolidating those accounts onto InMotion Hosting with percentage-based commissions, cost savings, and dedicated operational support. Continue Reading
What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and How Does it Work? Updated on May 15, 2026 Carrie Smaha A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a system of geographically distributed servers that caches your website’s static files and serves them to visitors from the closest possible location. The result is faster page loads, lower bandwidth consumption on your origin server, and stronger protection against traffic spikes and DDoS attacks. This guide explains how CDNs function, when they are worth adding, what they cost in 2026, and how to plan setup with your hosting account.Continue Reading
What is HTTP/3 and Why Is It Important? Updated on May 15, 2026 Carrie Smaha HTTP/3 is the third major version of the protocol that powers the web, built on QUIC instead of TCP. It cuts handshake latency, eliminates head-of-line blocking across requests, and keeps connections alive when a mobile user moves between networks. This article explains what HTTP/3 is, when it produces measurable gains, where it does not, and how to enable it on your hosting environment.Continue Reading
AI-Assisted Development Tradeoffs for Agencies and Clients Updated on May 12, 2026 Carrie Smaha AI-assisted development is no longer a novelty agencies can evaluate from a distance. Clients are already asking about it. Some are using it without telling you. And the tools have matured enough that the question is no longer “should we explore this” but “how do we use it without creating problems we can’t bill to fix.”Continue Reading
Node.js Performance Optimization for Production VPS Hosting Updated on May 15, 2026 Sam Page Node.js performance problems in production almost always come from the same short list: a single-process app pinned to one CPU core, missing caching layers, an event loop blocked by synchronous work, and a process manager that crashes silently at 2 a.m. Continue Reading
What Is a SecurityScorecard Rating and What Does It Mean for Your Website? Updated on May 14, 2026 Carrie Smaha A SecurityScorecard rating is an outside-in security grade assigned to your organization based entirely on what’s publicly visible from the internet. It doesn’t require your cooperation, your credentials, or even your awareness. Continue Reading
What is TLS (Transport Layer Security)? Updated on May 12, 2026 Carrie Smaha If your business takes payments, collects customer information, or runs anything more than a static brochure site, TLS is already protecting you. Transport Layer Security is the invisible piece of technology that turns “http” into “https” and keeps customer data private as it moves across the internet. This guide explains what TLS is, why it matters for your business, how it has changed over the years, and what role your hosting provider plays in keeping it current.Continue Reading
Global Peering Explained: Network Performance for Hosting Updated on May 12, 2026 Sam Page Global peering decides how fast your site reaches a visitor in Berlin, Mumbai, or São Paulo. Internet exchange points and software-defined network fabrics let hosting providers bypass open transit, cut latency, and stabilize routing during congestion. This guide breaks down how peering works, why it shapes site performance, and how InMotion Hosting is managing both legacy interconnections and a next-generation SDN peering architecture.Continue Reading
When to Upgrade from VPS to a Dedicated Server: 7 Clear Signs Updated on May 12, 2026 Sam Page You should move from a VPS to a dedicated server when measurable resource ceilings are hurting performance, revenue, or reliability faster than your VPS plan can absorb. The clearest signals are sustained CPU saturation, recurring memory pressure, rising disk I/O wait, and traffic patterns that no longer fit inside virtualized resource quotas. This guide walks through seven specific indicators, what each one tells you about your workload, and how to time the upgrade without paying for capacity you don’t need.Continue Reading
Citizen Developer, Real Infrastructure: When Business-Built Apps Need Real Hosting Updated on May 12, 2026 Carrie Smaha The marketing analyst built a customer-facing portal in Bubble. Finance is running a vendor onboarding flow on Airtable plus a few Make scenarios. Operations has a Glide app that 40 field technicians use to log service calls. None of this went through IT, and now the CFO is asking who’s responsible if any of it breaks. This guide is for IT managers and agency partners who inherit production systems they didn’t spec, and who need a clear way to decide when business-built apps need production-grade infrastructure.Continue Reading
Dedicated Server vs. Managed Shared Hosting: Who Controls Your Security Configuration? Updated on May 5, 2026 Carrie Smaha On managed shared hosting, the hosting provider controls the server configuration. They decide which TLS versions to support, how security headers are applied, when software gets patched, and what you’re allowed to change. On a dedicated server, you do. That distinction doesn’t matter much when everything is running fine. It matters a great deal when a security audit, a vendor risk review, or a SecurityScorecard report flags specific issues your current environment won’t let you address.The honest answer to that question is: it depends on who owns the server.Continue Reading
Hosting Sanity.io: Headless CMS Deployment and Performance Best Practices Updated on April 30, 2026 Sam Page Sanity.io has become one of the most developer-friendly headless CMS options, offering real-time collaboration, structured content, and a powerful query language (GROQ). Unlike traditional CMSs, Sanity is a hosted backend service, you don’t install it on your server. Continue Reading
Best Web Hosting Plans for Agencies: Shared, VPS, and Dedicated Compared Updated on April 24, 2026 Carrie Smaha When you manage 20, 50, or 100+ client websites, finding the best web hosting plan for your agency isn’t about finding the cheapest option. It’s about matching server resources, management overhead, and support quality to your actual workload. Shared hosting works until resource limreits break campaign landing pages. VPS delivers control but requires configuration expertise. Dedicated servers provide isolation but cost more than some agencies can justify.Continue Reading
How Agencies Can Manage No-Code AI Client Sites Without Losing Control Updated on April 27, 2026 Carrie Smaha You built your agency around delivering results. Now half your Monday morning is spent logging into six different platform dashboards, each owned by a client who built their own site using an AI website builder before they hired you. You’re responsible for their performance but have no control over their infrastructure. This guide covers how to assess, organize, and centralize no-code client sites under infrastructure you actually control — and how to charge for it.Continue Reading
What Is Time to First Byte (TTFB) and How Your Server Affects It Updated on May 15, 2026 Sam Page Time to First Byte (TTFB) measures how long it takes for a browser to receive the first byte of data from your server after making a request. While it is just one performance metric, TTFB significantly impacts user experience and search engine rankings.Continue Reading