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Shared hosting is the most inexpensive way to get online. Some providers offer shared hosting plans for as low as a dollar per month. Thus, many individuals and businesses opt for a shared hosting plan for their websites.
But, what is shared hosting? Shared hosting is a hosting service where many users use the same server to get on the Internet. Shared hosting is the most inexpensive hosting solution because the costs of maintaining the server are spread across many users.
You can put your website online, store your data, and create email addresses using your domain name with shared hosting. Multiple users share the resources from one server, which can lead to potential issues and downtime if one user needs to utilize more resources than usual.
However, shared hosting is an ideal option for smaller websites that do not get a lot of traffic or do not need a lot of resources. So, if you need a cheap way to get online and host a small website, shared hosting is the best solution for you. Also, you won’t need to concern yourself with managing and maintaining the server, as that is a task that your hosting provider will do.
Another great thing about shared hosting is that it is pretty easy to use. Shared hosting plans are usually managed by control panels, which provide a simple user interface that everyone can learn to use. So, you won’t need to learn how to code or program or have knowledge on Windows or Linux servers to use shared hosting. Control panels make everything easier for you, and you can find everything you need easily on your control panel dashboard.
Also, you will get strong security for your website with shared hosting. If a security threat emerges in one of the websites that share a server with you, that threat can quickly spread to all of the other users on the server. Thus, hosting providers usually offer strong security measures in their shared hosting plans that will keep your website safe and prevent as many cyber threats as possible.
As we mentioned, you can get shared hosting for as low as one dollar a month. However, with LimitlessHost, you can get a shared hosting plan for an even lower price of $0.50 a month! With LimitlessHost’s lowest shared hosting plan, you will get 1GB disk space, 50GB bandwidth, one addon domain, two subdomains, and 5 MySQL databases. Also, LimitlessHost has an uptime guarantee of 99%, which is pretty solid.
And if you want to hear what its users think about its services, you can do so by clicking on this link where you can see how our users at HostAdvice have rated LimitlessHost’s service after using them. To give you a quick preview, our users love LimitlessHost and have given the provider a rating of 4.9/5.0, emphasizing how much they like its reliability and prices.
Is Shared Hosting Suitable for Your Blog?
The short answer is yes. Shared hosting is actually an ideal solution for those who want to host a blog. It is affordable, and it allows you to integrate plugins and other tools into your blog easily – what more could you need?
Most shared hosting plans provide more than enough resources to host blogs without any issues. Let’s take LimitlessHost as an example. Namely, its shared hosting plans allow you to have up to 20GB of disk space, 500GB bandwidth, limitless addon domains, a free SSL Certificate, and more. Blogs usually take up around 700-800MB of disk space, which you will get for $0.50 a month with LimitlessHost.
All in all, you will not need many resources at all for hosting a blog, so shared hosting is the ideal choice for blogs in terms of both price and resources.
[Note] As for bandwidth, you won’t need more than 5GB per month for a blog. However, if you plan on creating a larger blog with many articles and pictures, you will need at 4GB of space, which you can easily get with shared hosting. [Note]
A Few Words on HostAdvice
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Conclusion
All in all, shared hosting is the ideal solution for hosting any blog. It is the perfect way to get your blog online because it provides more than enough resources for your blog to function and run without any issues.
Also, getting anything other than shared hosting for your blog may be over the top, and you may end up spending more money than you need to for hosting your blog.
WordPress is the most famous content management system, which is widely being used nowadays. According to the sources, around 43% of the websites are using WordPress. But what if your site slows down?
You can lose many visitors if it takes more than three seconds to load website. Installing themes and plugins can cause heavy load on WordPress site, causing high resource usage and increasing the time to load the website. We will be sharing some tips on how you can improve your WordPress site speed, whether you are using a Shared Hosting or a VPS Hosting.
In most cases, Shared Hosting is used which has specific resource limit and is usually in a shared environment. That is where improving your site speed can be challenging.
1. Stay up to date with PHP Version
Yes, with every PHP Version, there are different optimizations are done that can increase your site speed drastically. For example, there are some plugins which use PHP 5.6 Version which has already reached End-of-Life, using such plugins not only pose a security risk but also slow down the website. Though, using the latest PHP version can also cause many incompatibility issues so it is better to stay at the lowest branch of supported version which has not reached End-of-Line. Now the question is, how would you upgrade to the latest PHP version? In the case of Shared Hosting & specialized WordPress Hosting, you will need to reach out to your hosting provider or you could try to find out something like “Select PHP Version” in your control panel. However, for VPS and Dedicated Servers, you will require a technician to do that for you if you do not use any control panel. Limitless Hosting’s server come with variety of PHP Versions, and our shared hosting allows the change of PHP Version through “Select PHP Version” in your control panel.
2. Research before you install any plugin
A badly coded plugin can cause your site to slow down. Before installing any plugin, one must check the rating and the downloads of that plugin. You do require a functionality from plugin, but make sure that it does not make you lose visitors because of site speed. If your site is already slow, then you should find the culprit plugin but first you must monitor your resource usage. Is your CPU & RAM being fully utilized? If that is the case, then it is possible that it is a plugin causing that issue. You can isolate every plugin one by one and find out the culprit. For such tasks, it is recommended to hire someone expert in this field.
3. Pick Caching Plugin Carefully
It is common that users install many different caching plugins, thinking that it would speed up the website. But this is not the case sometimes and some sites can even completely slow down due to multiple caching plugins, causing incompatibility. So, what is the correct way to pick a caching plugin? First of all, determine what web server are you using, this can be verified by the hosting provider, or if you already have knowledge about PHP then creating a PHP info file can also show you your web server version. Many hosting providers use “LiteSpeed Web Server”, this is a fastest web server, in this case, you must install the plugin which is provided by them officially and is known as “LiteSpeed Cache”. If you use this plugin on your WordPress, then it is enough and will highly speed up your site. Though, even if your web server is not LiteSpeed Web Server, you can still freely use it and it will also increase your site speed. What more options do I have if I am not using LiteSpeed Web Server? If you are on Apache or NGINX, we recommend you a plugin known as “WP Super Cache”, with expert mode enabled. When these plugins are being used, we do not recommend using any other cache plugin as this can cause conflicts. Limitless Hosting is currently using LiteSpeed Web Server on cPanel Hosting.
4. Compress images
Many experts recommend 1 MB as the normal size for the web page so that it can load fast. But even a single image can use more than 1 MB, this is where image optimization must be done. Before uploading any images, make sure that you optimize them. There are many software available, online and offline which can compress your image size up to 90%. It is also recommended that you convert images to WebP format which can also reduce image size drastically while keeping the same quality.
5. Make the use of caching plugin wisely
Caching plugins are usually not limited to caching only, but they come with tons of features. LiteSpeed Cache allows you to optimize your page through CSS and JS minification, allows enabling lazy-loading images, and even provides image optimization feature. Other caching plugins also come with same features, so it is recommended to use the same caching plugin to optimize your web pages instead of installing a different plugin. But beware, if you try to enable all the optimizations, you can even break your theme and cause your fonts to be completed changed, thus make sure that you read about every option and change it accordingly.
Limitless Hosting is celebrating the fifth anniversary with huge discounts. Just like every year, the deals are available which are extremely affordable.
This time, following are the featured deals which can be seen below:
Yes, you read it right! $1/year hosting that is available in USA, EU and even Asia data center! All our hosting packages are SSD Powered, and all the deals are recurring, which means that you pay same every year, and price does not change.
Apart from that, reseller hosting is also available from $12/year in all three servers.
Even software provided by Limitless Hosting are on discount, that is, WISECP License. If you are not aware what WISECP is, here is what you need to about it briefly: It is a web hosting billing software, which makes your life easier by automating all your tasks, this software is just not limited to hosting services, but any kind of digital services can be provided using that software which helps in invoices, payment gateways, modules, support system, and a lot more. You can get the owned branded license for just $190, that is a one-time payment.
Did we miss something? Oh yes, a domain which we often do not put on sale, can be availed at just $1.2 for first year, It is .XYZ domain name, which is a famous domain.
If you have any queries, feel free to submit a ticket and we will assist you!
Are you tired of fixing your WordPress due to infected malware or content? We have got some tips for you so that your website never gets infected, tried and tested!
1. Update, update, never forget!
One of the most biggest reason why WordPress websites easily get hacked is people forget about their website after they publish it for once. Maintenance is also an important part of website, so never forget about it. If you didn’t update your website, and just realized after reading this, now is the best time to do it so that your website does not get infected. There are different kinds of updates, WordPress, theme and plugin updates. WordPress and plugin updates are most important, and you should keep them up to date. There is also a new option in WordPress now to auto-update it, but sometimes updates can break things so it is better to keep it manual.
2. Never use nulled plugins
To save up some cost, people move to the illegal options such as nulled plugins and themes. Never compromise on nulled plugins and themes in WordPress, or even any other web software. You never know what is hidden inside a nulled plugin, and how dangerous it could be for your website. Buy those themes and plugins from trusted platforms, and so you could also get support and updates. Nulled themes and plugins are also not kept up to date, and it is also illegal to use them.
3. Security plugins
There are lot of well known plugins, that prevents your website from getting infected. They also stop brute-force attacks, that can also slow down your website. We recommend to always equip your site with such security plugin, try to use only one plugin so that your website does not get overloaded. Wordfence is a good security plugin which can be found in WordPress and is free.
4. Strong Passwords
That is one of the most basic security tip, keep a strong password, something that cannot be easily guessed, and should have combination of upper case, lower case letters, numbers, symbols along with a good length. Length also matters, so 14+ length with a perfect combination can be called a strong password. This does not only apply to WordPress sites, but all kinds of web application where user authentication is used.
5. Less Plugins
You might be wondering about the title which says less plugins, yes, plugins can be the biggest culprits sometimes and play a big role in infecting your website. It is not necessary that all plugins are well-coded, and free of exploits. The more plugins you use, the more chances are that your website can get infected. Use the plugins which have good rating and large amount of downloads, and then keep less amount of plugins.
6. Two Factor Authentication
This is something which should be used in all of your websites, even if its not WordPress, a person should not rely only on the password, but use the Two Factor Authentication which can protect unauthorized logins. Either a plugin should be used for it, or it may already be a part of security plugins which you may be using.
7. Captcha
Captcha should be used on registration, login, comments, contact forms and other pages where forms are used. This will not only protect your website from getting hacked, but also keep your website faster, as bots can attack login pages and cause website to be overloaded. To use a Captcha, you may need to install a plugin, or it could be a part of your security plugin.
If you are using Limitless Hosting’s Web Hosting plan, you can always contact us and we can secure your WordPress site for extra charges, since our services are semi-managed. Apart from that, we take many security precautions to secure our servers. Check out our web hosting plans starting from $0.50/month only.
