Whether you're launching your first website or upgrading an existing one, your domain name is a central element. It's important from a technical standpoint, as it allows users to easily access your site, but it's also essential to your digital brand. Since...
Interestingly enough, Google has two different website hosting options. Blogger, which is a direct competitor to WordPress.com more than WordPress.org that is focused on publishing content, and Google Sites, which is a more direct alternative to sites such as Wix and...
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the foundations of the modern web. AWS hosting is the biggest player in the cloud hosting arena, with over 33 percent of the market. Its closest competitor is Google Cloud, which boasts a...
The internet places a plethora of resources and information at our fingertips. However, it’s essential to understand how to identify and retrieve them. To do that, we can use URIs and URLs. While you’re probably familiar with the latter term, you might be wondering,...
There are a lot of services you can use to register your next domain. Aside from dedicated registrars, plenty of web hosts can also help you set up domains too. In fact, you have so many options, figuring out which one to use can be complicated – and that was before...
When it comes to domains, .com is king. Most people will always opt to use .com domains whenever they can. That brings up the question – can using alternatives to .com impact the way users see your website? From a technical...
It’s easy enough to change the way WordPress behaves and looks using your site’s dashboard. If you have a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client, you can even edit the platform’s core files. However, neither tool enables you to directly interact with and manage your...
Shared hosting is by far the most popular option for most people when creating their first website. It’s generally cheap, but still provides your site with decent performance while it grows. However, this type of hosting often starts struggling to keep up when faced...
Every website has an IP address that identifies it among all others. Theoretically, you could navigate the web using only IP addresses instead of domain names, but this wouldn’t be practical. To understand how IP addresses and domains relate to each other, you need to...
