Wix is mentioned several times as a free website builder that is simplifying the development of robust websites. At the beginning of this December, they have just announced Wix Code, a new platform that makes building a fully-fledged online site more straightforward than ever before.
What exactly are we talking about?
At this time, it’s so easy to get a professional quality, eye-catching web page design for your business. There are many situations in which you might decide that self-hosting your website is the way to go. But most of the businesses out there don’t have enough time to give in making their own business website that has a very high quality. Building a website by yourself takes a lot of time and experience.
Unfortunately, time is not on our side. So unlike most people, I don’t want to code everything from scratch when I start a new website for my start-up. Why? You can always make more money, but you cannot buy more time.
You will wondering why I write this post because I’m running our networks on Digital Ocean. Yes, it’s hard to manage a VPS for who you are begginer or don’t know too much about system management. So suggest that you getting a hosting service instead start from the begining. We were all newbies at one point, right? Continue read on!
Here is a step by step tutorial on how to start WordPress blog that over 100 people who has sent me an email and they have now used to start blogging properly!
Like others, I confused with the combine of Varnish + Nginx and Nginx alone on my server. But since I optimized new server with only Nginx, FastCGI Cache, Memcache. I’ve found a lot of talk about using Nginx with Varnish or not around the Internet. Isn’t Nginx enough?
The Quick Answer: I choosed Nginx alone without Varnish because I’ve found Varnish ~5% faster for small static files than Nginx but I will have to spend more time to maintaining and configuring it to works as I experct. It is not worth my effort!
This arctile will explain the reason that I don’t use Varnish with Nginx like Apache before.
A mere half-year ago, I was published two article to guide you setup perfect VPS on Digital Ocean and the guidelines to optimize LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server on lowest VPS hardware plan. My VPS that’s optimized with Varnish, W3 Total Cache, PHP-APC was powered on since November 2013 until now without any reboot or reset. I estimate my server could easily handle 50K – 100K page views per day. At that point I would be close to breaking 95% memory usage (with swap file). In just an afternoon last week, my server was survival with 280K page views, without any downtime.
There are several ways to improve your WordPress websites. Once you are done playing with the WordPress dashboard, plugins and themes then you must take a look to .htaccess. The .htaccess file is the easiest and the cheapest (actually it’s free!) solution to supercharging your WordPress websites but there are also some basic Apache knowledge requirements.
Choosing the right hosting company for your websites can be a difficult endeavor, especially if you have little experience in this domain.
When you need to choose a hosting service, I think most of us will look at price first and then at host specification packages. Although the price is also an important factor, however, it should not be the first.
As you can see, since last week, I did not publish new post because I have moved to Digital Ocean after a trial month. In the last few years I’ve used a lot of hosting providers. If you aren’t aware, I’ve been with HostGator for years, but after the last few months, I’ve been noticing their VPS services were slow. As my previous hosting contract was coming to an end and my friend has recommended Digital Ocean, I decided to take a look and was instantly surprised. DigitalOcean was just what I was looking for. Until now I’ve never actually found any that have been able to satisfy my needs at the right price. In this post, I’m going to let you guys know why I switched and why Digital Ocean is my host of choice right now.
Building a website is as simple as write your words, design a layout and add all the content on an assigned web page, but on the completion of the website you will need a space over the net to upload it, here comes the role of web hosting services. If you are a beginner in setting up a website, then you could have visited a lot of different free and paid web hosting providers and you could still be confusing where to host your website. In fact, for beginners the idea of putting up a website free of charge could be an attractive idea.
As we all know that free web hosting is nothing new in the current online market, but still because of its several advantages it has been continuously doing great day by day. Free web hosting services is the best way to start for new clients who want a way to start their own business. But before starting to use these services you must have all the basic knowledge of hosting and affordable hosting services.
Shared servers are just that- shared. It means that if someone on your server has a spike in traffic to their website one day, resources may be taken away from your website. That is exactly what you are doing if you are on a shared hosting plan. Though sharing brings its benefits, the biggest one being low price, there are some situations where you need to consider upgrading to dedicated hosting.
A Virtual private server, or VPS, may be the hosting solution you are looking for. If your website is experiencing immense growth, it may be better to host the site on a VPS. A shared hosting environment tends to be unstable and your growing site may be taking up too much resources. Having a VPS ensures that you are allocated a fixed amount of resources. You don’t have to worry about resource hogging. In addition, you can also make custom tweaks to your site that requires admin rights. You can’t do that in a shared hosting environment.
Virtual private server (VPS) hosting is a flexible, scalable, and economical hosting solution that can fit the needs of almost any kind of website. It’s a perfect solution for those who have outgrown their shared hosting plans but don’t really need to move to a dedicated server.
With so many hosting businesses out there how can you ensure you choose one of the more reputable ones? Here are a few pointers that should help steer you in the right direction: