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Moving a WordPress Website
by Neil Anuskiewicz
  • Basic must-know technical terms explained
  • Moving your WordPress Website - step by step instructions
  • Moving your website with a plugin
  • Moving email hosting - step by step instructions
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SSD Vs. HDD Hosting
by Idan Cohen
  • What is the difference between SSD and HDD?
  • Comparing SSD and HDD: Security, Speed, Power Consumption, Durability & Reliability, Cost
  • Should you migrate to SSD or keep you HDD server?
  • Migrating to SSD
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Building a Responsive Website Using Bootstrap
by Neil Anuskiewicz
  • What is Bootstrap?
  • What you need to know to use Bootstrap
  • Getting Bootstrap for your project
  • Building a website with Bootstrap
  • Bootstrap resources
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A Guide to RAID
by Amos Kingatua
  • What is RAID?
  • How does RAID work?
  • When should I use RAID?
  • Explanation of RAID levels
  • Pros & Cons of RAID
  • Who should use RAID?
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Recent Blog Posts
At HostAdvice, we’re dedicated to exploring the different challenges and trends in the web hosting industry. Read our blog for news about the latest startups and acquisitions, technical developments, as well as personal interviews with CEOs to learn more about their thoughts on the future of web hosting. Latest Blog Posts
Varnish Cache: Accelerated HTTP(S) Cache Control with Hitch TLS & VMSE Data Services - Mar. 18, 2018

Varnish HTTP Cache Control with Improved SSL/TLS Management for Web Servers Varnish Cache is used by over 2.5 million websites in production in 2018, including by some of the largest IT & media corporations like…

NetCraft: NGINX Manages 26% of Popular Website Traffic, Cloudflare CDN Servers Support 5.2% in 2018 - Mar. 17, 2018

NGINX Compatible With Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris, or FreeBSD Web Servers NetCraft is considered a reliable source for web server operating system analysis based on their method of parsing the HTTP meta-tag values of the…

DevOps Toolbox: Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, & SaltStack - Mar. 16, 2018

Jira, Confluence, Trello, CloudApp, Zoom, & Slack – Top 12 DevOps Apps for 2018 DevOps represents the best practices in project management for the development & operation of web/mobile applications in a public, private, or…

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