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Black Friday Web Hosting Deals – Not Really So Fantastic?

It’s that time of year, so I thought I’d put up a short post with some advice about Black Friday web hosting deals from the perspective of a long-time web hosting client.

SiteGround VPS Cloud Hosting is fast and easy

When you buy a SiteGround VPS hosting plan (aka SiteGround Cloud Hosting), you get CPU and RAM dedicated to your site, running on Google cloud infrastructure, but you do not have the usual command-line access to a server that you might expect.

Best way to copy blog posts from localhost WordPress to hosted WP

When you use a localhost WordPress site to create blog posts, at some point you will need to copy those posts to a hosted WordPress on a server.

Migrate from wordpress.com to your own domain – simple step by step tutorial

This post will show you step-by-step how to migrate from wordpress.com to your own domain on a fast host – I’ll use SiteGround as the hosting provider, but you can use this process with most hosting services. This is a follow-up to my post How to Clone your WordPress site to a fast host, which requires installing a plugin on your existing site. You cannot install plugins on a free WordPress.com site, so you must use a different process.

How to clone your WordPress site to a fast host in 2020.

This post will show you how to clone your WordPress site to a fast host from a free or slow hosting service. I’ll show you an incredibly easy way to move a WordPress site to SiteGround, but this method requires you to install a plugin on your current site. If your current host does not allow you to install a plugin (e.g. a free site on wordpress.com), then you should check out my next post, which will show how to copy your site from wordpress.com to your own domain.

How to install WordPress on a Chromebook the easy way

Yes, you can install WordPress on a Chromebook, and it works really well. In fact, I wrote this post using WordPress 5.4.1 installed on a Chromebook.

Free website Hosting – does it work?

I’ve always been a web-hosting bargain-hunter, but I’ve always drawn the line at free website hosting. I always shop around for the best deal on shared hosting, but only from companies that I trust. This one time, I decided to test a free option.

Best Web Hosting for Canada or USA

I live in Vancouver, BC, so why in 2020 did I have this site hosted in Iowa? Who has the best web hosting for Canada? For that matter, what are the best web hosting options for the USA?

Cloud Hosting vs Shared Hosting – which is best for you?

One thing to keep in mind when comparing Cloud Hosting vs Shared Hosting is that “Cloud Hosting” is a marketing term. All internet servers could be said to be “in the cloud”. So which type of hosting should you choose?

VPS vs Cloud – which should you use?

With “The Cloud” now being such a popular term, companies who need more power than a shared hosting account have to consider a VPS vs Cloud server, or even a dedicated server. But which is best for you?