Tag: hosting

  • Having A Good Host And Knowing Who Runs It Helps

    Having A Good Host And Knowing Who Runs It Helps

    I was at Flywheel for the longest time. They are a good service. But they lost their personal touch when the were acquired by WPEngine. I recently moved 40 sites to Rocket.net (affiliate link). And I’m very happy with them. Just yesterday, I stupidly deleted a former client’s site without first grabbing a backup. I

  • Why I Moved Hosting Providers From Flywheel to Rocket.net

    Why I Moved Hosting Providers From Flywheel to Rocket.net

    I’m almost full moved to Rocket.net from Flywheel/WPEngine. For the longest time, I loved Flywheel’s hosting. I love how it was a boutique WordPress optimized host and wasn’t part of the big dogs. Then WPEngine bought them. At first it was decent enough. Then they started nickel and diming for every small feature. To get

  • Why It’s Important To Let Your Web Person Handle Your Hosting And Maintenance

    Why It’s Important To Let Your Web Person Handle Your Hosting And Maintenance

    I’ve been doing web design, web development, and digital marketing for more than 10 years. Of the years I’ve done a number of different methods to host my clients’ sites. In the beginning I would have them pick up cheap hosting and they would manage that relationship. As time went on, the cheap hosting acted

  • Digital Marketers & Web Designers. Don’t hold Your Clients Hostage!

    Digital Marketers & Web Designers. Don’t hold Your Clients Hostage!

    If I got paid $1 every time I had to untangle an existing site’s hosting account, WordPress account and plugin/theme issues, I’d be a very rich man. In the digital marketing, especially in the web design, their are two many professionals holding clients hostage and making it really difficult for them to separate and go