CI/CD Pipelines: What Are They and Why Do You Need to Know? Updated on September 25, 2025 by BradM A CI/CD pipeline automates the process of moving code from development to production, ensuring faster, safer, and more reliable updates. By standardizing testing, builds, and deployments, businesses reduce downtime and deliver consistent user experiences. For agencies, marketers, founders, and hosting partners, pipelines unlock agility, scalability, and efficiency. With the right hosting your CI/CD pipeline becomes the engine that fuels growth, reliability, and competitive advantage. When you update a website or application, you want changes to go live quickly, safely, and without downtime. That’s where CI/CD pipelines come in. CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (or Deployment), and it’s the process that lets teams release updates faster, with fewer errors, and with less manual effort. For agencies managing multiple clients, in-house marketers launching campaigns, founder-led businesses innovating on the fly, and hosting partners scaling their offerings, CI/CD isn’t just a developer trend, it’s a growth engine. Continue reading –>
AI Chatbots for WordPress: Empowering Support Without Compromising Trust Updated on September 25, 2025 by Nikki Ryan Customers expect instant support, but WordPress teams can’t always be online 24/7. AI chatbots close that gap: delivering real-time answers, reducing support costs, and keeping visitors engaged. The challenge? Avoiding pitfalls like inaccurate responses, privacy risks, and slow site performance. This guide shows you how to pick the right chatbot, deploy it securely, and pair it with hosting built for speed and reliability, so your brand earns trust while scaling customer support effortlessly. If you run a WordPress site, you already know how important customer support is to your business. Visitors expect answers right away, but support teams are busy, and staffing 24/7 help isn’t always realistic. That’s where AI chatbots come in. Continue reading –>
What Is Uptime? And Why It Matters for Your Business Updated on September 25, 2025 by Derrell What is uptime, and why should it matter to your business? Uptime measures how consistently your website stays online and even small gaps can cost you sales, trust, and rankings. This guide explains uptime basics, why it impacts revenue and brand reputation. Discover how the right infrastructure keeps your site running smoothly and supports growth… When you run a business online, every second your website is unavailable costs you money, trust, and opportunities. Uptime is the measure of how reliably your website is accessible to visitors. While 99.9% uptime may sound close to perfect (and it’s the best guarantee out there) even that small gap can still mean something for high traffic sites. For eCommerce businesses, agencies, or marketing teams, that can translate into thousands in lost revenue or broken client trust. Continue reading –>
Best WordPress Accessibility Plugin: Top 5 Free Options Updated on August 25, 2025 by Shay Bravo Is your website accessible? It should be, but that’s not the case for millions of websites around the world, and the stakes are higher than ever for businesses that get this wrong. For WordPress users, making your site more accessible can be as simple as adding a WordPress accessibility plugin. But the reality is more complex than many business owners realize. While these tools can make your site much better for people with disabilities, they’re not a perfect solution that fixes everything on its own. Continue reading –>
WordPress Agency Hosting: The Ideal Guide for Agencies Updated on December 12, 2025 by Jennifer Fan Managing multiple client WordPress sites can feel like juggling flaming torches until you find the right hosting partner. This complete guide reveals how specialized WordPress agency hosting turns constant hosting issues into a more predictable, manageable workflow. Discover the top providers, essential features, and proven strategies that help agencies save 10-20 hours monthly while delivering faster, more secure websites to clients. WordPress agency hosting is a specialized hosting infrastructure designed for web development agencies managing multiple client WordPress websites. Compared to basic hosting providers, WordPress agency hosting offers a bespoke, high-performance service that scales with your agency. Continue reading –>
Best Managed WordPress Hosting: 8 Providers Tested for Speed & Support (2025) Updated on September 25, 2025 by Carrie Smaha We tested 8 managed WordPress hosting providers and discovered that some charge up to 400% more at renewal, a shocking reality that can devastate your budget and business planning. Our comprehensive analysis reveals which best managed WordPress provider delivers genuine value beyond promotional gimmicks. From premium performance to transparent pricing, we’ve identified the top choices for 2025, helping you avoid costly surprises while securing reliable hosting for your WordPress site. Best Managed WordPress Hosting: 8 Providers Tested for Speed & Support (2025) We tested 8 managed WordPress hosts and found that some charge up to 400% more at renewal. Personal or client site, regardless, this is more than a minor inconvenience. Sudden price hikes can disrupt your accounting, business planning, and credibility as a service provider. Continue reading –>
Why You Need to Backup Your Website Updated on June 17, 2025 by Carrie Smaha Running a website comes with many responsibilities—but one of the most important is making sure your data is protected. Whether you’re a small business owner, a developer managing client sites, or a webmaster overseeing critical infrastructure, having a reliable website backup strategy can mean the difference between recovery and disaster. Continue reading –>
The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Website Security: Protect Your Site Like a Pro Updated on September 25, 2025 by Carrie Smaha With over 13,000 WordPress sites hacked daily, your business website faces unprecedented cyber threats. From AI-enhanced brute force attacks to supply chain vulnerabilities, hackers are evolving faster than ever. This comprehensive security guide reveals proven strategies used by InMotion Hosting to protect thousands of business websites since 2001. Learn essential security measures, compliance requirements, and recovery techniques to safeguard your WordPress site from malware, data breaches, and reputation damage that could cost your business everything. WordPress powers over 43% of all websites on the internet and holds a 62% share of the Content Management System (CMS) market, making it the most popular CMS. However, with more than 500 new WordPress sites launched daily, its widespread use makes it a prime target for cyber threats. WordPress website security issues, like malware, hacking, data breaches, and unauthorized access, damage a website owner’s business, reputation, and customer trust. Continue reading –>
Outdated Plugins: A Complete Guide to Securing and Updating Your WordPress Website Updated on September 25, 2025 by Jennifer Fan Contrary to widespread perceptions, 94% of detected WordPress vulnerabilities come from plugins, not from WordPress core itself. This is a wake-up call for many business owners. Your website might be at risk right now, and you may not even know. Continue reading –>
Enhanced Email Deliverability Coming to Managed WordPress Mail Servers Posted on January 7, 2025 by Derrell We’re excited to announce the next phase of our MailChannels upgrade: the deployment of MailChannels on our Managed WordPress mail servers! This upgrade follows the successful implementation of MailChannels on our shared servers and is part of our ongoing commitment to improving email deliverability and security for our customers. Continue reading –>
Building a WordPress Website for Non-Profits Updated on March 19, 2025 by Carrie Smaha Some of the many questions that arise when building a website for a non-profit revolve around WordPress and WordPress Hosting. As a non-profit, there are many limiting factors that come into play when answering these questions. How much money will it cost, will there be support if or when needed, what is the best hosting plan that will not break the bank? Continue reading –>
InMotion Hosting Launches New High-Performance WordPress Hosting Posted on August 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha InMotion Hosting’s next generation of cloud WordPress Hosting plans run on high-performance virtual private servers. VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA – August 14, 2023 — InMotion Hosting announced today the launch of its new cloud WordPress hosting plans and server management platform, Platform InMotion. From a single dashboard, users can create, manage, and deploy websites to a high-performance VPS optimized for WordPress. The launch of this product continues the commitment that InMotion Hosting has made to develop products that enhance the end user’s experience. Continue reading –>
What is the Difference Between Hosting and WordPress Hosting? Updated on November 12, 2024 by Shay Bravo When browsing for new web hosting providers you oftentimes will see specialized hosting plans such as WordPress Hosting. Furthermore, you’ll also see options for Shared, VPS, and Dedicated Hosting – which can be confusing to shoppers who are unfamiliar with web hosting. Continue reading –>
How to Use the Openverse Media Library with WordPress Updated on February 16, 2023 by InMotion Hosting When you’re building a WordPress site, there may be times when you want to add images to enhance pages or posts. There are many options available but WordPress has its own central repository, called Openverse. This is where you can quickly find, modify, and share free images with others. All of this content is available under a license that allows you to use them without fear of copyright infringement. Continue reading –>
2023 WordPress Trends Predicted by Influencers Updated on December 9, 2025 by Shay Bravo The theme for the 2022 State of the Word Keynote focused on the Four Freedoms of Open Source. Speaker and Co-founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, focused on the CMS’ growth through its nearly two decades of existence in an ever-changing technical landscape Continue reading –>
