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Domains Names Hosting and Servers

What are Nameservers and How Do They Work?

Do you ever wonder how the Internet, in all its sheer size, dependably works and gets you where you need to go online? The easiest way to think about it is this: Each website has a unique IP address, but you wouldn’t want to have to remember these...

January 16, 2020

News Website Development Wordpress

WordPress 5.3: New Features

WordPress 5.3 “Kirk” was released to the public on November 12, 2019. As with previous releases, there are a multitude of new features that users can take advantage of. Here is an overview of what’s new in WordPress 5.3. Expanded Block Editor The...

January 9, 2020

Website Development

The Best Web Development Frameworks for 2020

Web development frameworks are always in flux: as the requirements of web applications change over time, new frameworks are built to meet these challenges. For 2020, here are the most powerful frontend and backend networks to take a look at...

December 26, 2019

Hosting and Servers News

What’s new in MySQL 8.0?

If you’re a database administrator, the recently released MySQL 8.0 is probably the most exciting event of the year. The new version offers some significant benefits to the previous version (5.7). At CanSpace, we will support MySQL 8.0 as soon as it...

December 19, 2019

Email Marketing

Email Marketing Best Practices You Need to Know

If you’re trying to get an email marketing program off the ground, you have your work cut out for you. Here are some email marketing best practices to keep in mind as you get started or as you try to overhaul your current program. Aim for double-opt...

December 12, 2019

Hosting and Servers Website Development

Version Control Systems – Getting Started with Git

For obvious reasons, version control is one of the most important aspects in software and web development. By far the most popular version control system in use today is Git. Git was actually created by Linus Torvalds during the development of the...

December 5, 2019

Security Website Development Wordpress

Choosing WordPress Plugins With Security in Mind

This year, WordPress security really came into the mainstream view. This was due to a couple of high-profile security threats that happened earlier in the year. One of WordPress’s main benefits is the ability to use plugins to accomplish things...

November 28, 2019

Analytics Website Development

Supercharge Your Web Analytics by Adding E-Commerce Functionality to GA

We’ve written a few posts now to help our readers see the benefits of using Google Analytics for their site. Analytics can help businesses learn key information that can improve customer experience and improve their bottom line. For websites that...

November 21, 2019

Website Development

4 Unique Website Strategies to Consider for Your Next Redesign

If you’re thinking about doing an overhaul of your website sometime soon, this is a great opportunity to give some careful thought to the design and layout you want to go with. Contrary to what some people may think, design does not come second to...

November 14, 2019

Website Development

Python vs PHP – What should you use to develop your Web Application?

When talking about Python vs. PHP as the most versatile language for web applications, it’s easy to start a war online. People have their own preferences, and it can be hard to convince them otherwise. But if you’re in a position to choose between...

November 7, 2019

Website Development Wordpress

Are You Taking Full Advantage of the New WordPress 5.2?

WordPress’s latest version, 5.2, rolled in around the corner this spring, without too much fanfare. And yet, this new version offers some exciting new features to WordPress users. Here’s what you can expect: Updates to the Block Editor The WordPress...

October 24, 2019

SEO

Everything You Wanted to Know about Local SEO for Your Site

You may be familiar with the term Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but are you familiar with local SEO specifically? Local SEO is related to optimizing your content specifically with the goal of ranking highly in a particular geographic location...

October 17, 2019

Email Hosting and Servers

Making sure your emails are delivered correctly. What are DKIM and SPF?

We live in a world where millions of emails are exchanged every day. It’s amazing that most of us use this technology without actually understanding what makes it work behind the scenes. Like any email users, you’re probably painfully familiar with...

October 10, 2019

Hosting and Servers News Security

CentOS 6 is approaching End Of Life. Is your host using CentOS 7 yet?

The operation, reliability, and performance of your servers is in large part determined by the operating system running on the server. One of the most universally used operating systems for servers is CentOS. It has great features and performance...

October 3, 2019

Website Development Wordpress

Battle of the WordPress Optimization Plugins: Autoptimize, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache

When it comes to website optimization for WordPress, we truly live in a golden age. There are now so many choices that it can be hard to know which one to go with. This post will go over the most popular options that are available to you as a...

September 26, 2019

Hosting and Servers Website Development

Five Questions You Should Be Asking Your Hosting Provider

It might surprise you to find out that not all hosting providers are created equal. As a website owner, it behooves you to select a hosting provider that will be an asset to your website rather than a liability. When selecting your hosting provider...

September 19, 2019

Hosting and Servers Website Development

The 5 Most Common Factors Slowing Down Your Website, and How to Fix Them

On the World Wide Web, every site is different. But there’s one thing that all sites share—the need for speed. This need comes straight from audience research. Multiple research studies have shown that slow websites have less success. For instance...

September 12, 2019

Website Development

Easy Ways to Add a Member Area to Your Site

Have you ever thought about adding a members-only area to your site? This type of functionality isn’t just popular with ecommerce sites that process transactions. More and more websites are introducing member areas because of the inherent...

September 5, 2019

Website Development

How Image Optimization Can Help with the Speed and Performance of Your Site

At CanSpace we are obsessed with making sure our client’s websites load as fast as possible If you’re like most website owners, you pay attention to the images on your website insofar as you want them to look great, and that’s pretty much it...

August 29, 2019

Hosting and Servers

Two Great Tools for Testing the Performance of Your Site (Pingdom and Google Page Insights)

At CanSpace, we are obsessed with fast loading websites. Are you ever curious about how your website performs when others are visiting it? If only there was a tool that could test the performance of your site from different places in the planet and...

August 22, 2019

Hosting and Servers Website Development

How Much Storage Space Do You Actually Need for Your Site?

Like other storage media, website hosting has also dramatically increased the amount of space that you can affordably have. These days, it’s quite easy to have a hosting plan that has several gigabytes of storage space. At CanSpace, we offer three...

August 15, 2019

Hosting and Servers

How To Start Your Own Hosting Company Using Our Reseller Plans

Have you ever wanted to start a business that would have low overhead and frustration, but a high potential for profit? Being a hosting reseller can be just that. How Being a Hosting Reseller Works Because data must ultimately be stored on a...

August 8, 2019

SEO Website Development

No Clue about Search Engine Optimization? How the Yoast SEO Plugin Can Help

How often do you think about SEO when you’re making regular updates to your website? If the answer is “not often”, you may need some help. The best known WordPress plugin for SEO is called Yoast SEO and it’s truly the industry standard when it comes...

July 25, 2019

News

GDPR and Your Website: Do You Need to Change Anything to Be Compliant?

It was virtually impossible to read the news last year without being inundated with stuff about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you didn’t do anything about it at the time, here’s what you need to know for your...

July 18, 2019

Hosting and Servers News

PHP 7.3 is Here!

It takes a special kind of nerd to get excited when a new update to PHP rolls out. The important thing to note? All CanSpace servers now support PHP 7.3, which means that if you’re running a website platform that requires it and is up-to-date...

July 11, 2019

Hosting and Servers News

CanSpace Now Supports Node.js!

Do you know about Node.js? According to the Node.js homepage, Node “uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model.” What does that actually mean? Node is a server environment that’s particularly good at handling asynchronous JavaScript code and...

July 4, 2019

Analytics Hosting and Servers

Using Analytics to Identify Problems With Your Site

If you read our post on Getting Started with Google Analytics for Your Site, you know that spending a little time with your website’s analytics can tell you a lot about your audience and how you can improve the performance of your site. This post...

June 27, 2019

E-Commerce Website Development

eCommerce and Organization: The Importance of Product Hierarchies

When you’re setting up your online store, one of the first decisions you’ll have to think about is how to organize the products on your site. This will not only partially determine the structure of your site, but will also affect the shopper’s...

June 20, 2019

Website Development

Website Accessibility Best Practices

Have you devoted any time to thinking about the accessibility of your website? Website accessibility is becoming a more and more important issue these days. There are a number of reasons why website owners should make their websites more accessible:...

June 13, 2019

Domains Names

Using Subdomains: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

If you have a section of your website that exists sort of independently from the rest of your site, you may want to consider using a subdomain for this section to set it apart. A subdomain (like subdomain.yourdomain.com) is more closely affiliated...

June 6, 2019

Domains Names

Domain Extensions: Should You Use a Non-traditional One?

For a very long time, websites really had only a couple of options when it came to domain extensions. The most popular, of course, was .com. Then there was .net. And if you were a non-profit, .org. For Canadians, .ca is predominant. As the years...

May 23, 2019

Security Website Development

The Three Most Frequent Types of Hacker Attacks and How to Prevent Them

It seems like hacking is in the news constantly these days. Whether you’re a large corporation or your run a small ecommerce site, you have it in your best interest to prevent hackers from breaking into your site and stealing your customers’...

May 16, 2019

Hosting and Servers

Do You Need a Dedicated IP Address for your Site?

Among the features available from any hosting provider, you may notice something called a “dedicated IP address”. If you’ve ever wondered what that is and whether you need one, this post is for you. First things first.What is an IP address anyway...

May 9, 2019

Website Development

What Exactly is a Responsive Site, and Why Is It So Important?

You’re probably hearing the term “responsive” in reference to websites with increasing frequency these days. Is responsive design really that important for the success of your site? We hope this post can help to clear up some of the confusion around...

May 2, 2019

Website Development

A Look into Our Web-Based Site Builder

How do you make it easier for people who aren’t very familiar with code and web design to build a website of their own? Over the past few years, web-based site builders have made this a lot easier by giving users a What You See Is What You Get...

April 25, 2019

Domains Names Security

Why You Should Only Use a Registrar that Supports Two-factor Authentication

Web security is taking on an increasing importance these days. It seems that every other day we’re hearing about a new hacking of some type. As a registrar and web host, we do our best to be as secure as possible, and a part of that is our use of...

April 18, 2019

Hosting and Servers

Benefits of SSD Hosting

In the worlds of web hosting (or any servers, or portable hard drives, for that matter) there are two types of storage—hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD). Hard disk drives are the hard drives you’re probably most familiar with. They...

April 11, 2019

Security Wordpress

Keeping WordPress Secure: 5 Ways to Avoid Security Issues

WordPress is the most popular website platform in the world, making up 30% of all websites and 60% of all Content Management Systems. Due to its ubiquity, it’s also the most prone to hacker attacks. Here are five strategies for keeping your...

April 4, 2019

Hosting and Servers

Choosing a Green Hosting Solution for Your Website

It takes 70 billion kilowatt hours a year to run the Internet. Any way you look at it, that’s a lot of energy. Most of the world’s websites are hosted on remote servers in huge data centers. These servers use power to run, but also generate so much...

March 28, 2019

Hosting and Servers Website Development

The Definitive Guide to Backing Up Your Website

You’ve worked hard on your site, and you want to protect it. At the same time, a slew of hackers and malware are out to take control of your site and use it for nefarious purposes. Sometimes, the threat is a much simpler and more routine...

March 21, 2019

Domains Names

Choosing a Domain Name for Your Website: Some Considerations

If you’re thinking about building a personal or business website, one of the first things you’ll have to decide is what domain name to use. Your domain name is the address at which people will find you on the Internet—it likely won’t make or break...

March 14, 2019

Hosting and Servers

Web Design Agencies: Here’s Why You Should Provide a Hosting Solution to Your Clients

Are you a web design agency? If so, you should seriously consider providing a hosting solution to your clients. Here’s why: Control over crucial dimensions The hosting provider is absolutely key when it comes to reliable service, fast load times...

March 7, 2019

Analytics

Dipping Your Toes into Analytics for Your Website

Can you run a perfectly successful website without ever worrying about the concept of analytics? Of course. Many small businesses across Canada do. But diving into analytics enables you to learn more about how customers use your website, and will...

February 28, 2019

Hosting and Servers

Do You Need Shared, VPS, or Dedicated Hosting? How to Make the Decision

When you’re buying hosting from a provider rather than running your own servers, you typically have three different options to choose from: shared hosting, virtual private server, or dedicated hosting. But how do you choose between these options...

February 21, 2019

Website Development

7 Classic Website Design Mistakes to Avoid

You don’t have to be a professional designer to have a great-looking website. With the advent of WordPress themes, it’s very easy to find a theme that works well for your purposes while benefiting from all of the flexibility of the WordPress...

February 14, 2019

SEO

Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly?

When they hear about search engine optimization (SEO), many website owners get that far-away look in their eyes—many just don’t want to deal with this highly technical subject. SEO is a field that’s constantly evolving, and at larger companies there...

February 7, 2019

E-Commerce Website Development

As a Canadian E-commerce Business, How Can I Accept Payments Online?

If you’re a Canadian business and want to participate in e-commerce, you’ll need a payment provider who works with Canadian companies and follows all the necessary regulations from the Canadian government. Thankfully, you’ll find that most of the...

January 24, 2019

Hosting and Servers Website Development

What is a CDN and How Can It Speed Up Your Website?

If you read our post on website speed, you’re aware of just how important loading speed is for user experience and ultimately the conversion rates on your website. One concept you may not be aware of is the Content Delivery Network (CDN). A CDN can...

January 17, 2019

Hosting and Servers Website Development

Site Loading Speed: Why It Matters and How to Speed Up Your Site

We all know that a website that loads promptly is a joy to use. But how important is site speed, really? Here are some stats from Neil Patel’s site: 47% of consumers expect a web page to load in 2 seconds or less. 40% of people abandon a website...

January 10, 2019

Website Development

What CMS Should You Use for Your Site? WordPress vs. Joomla vs. Drupal

A content management system (CMS) is the framework that makes your website work—it structures your content and provides administration features that help you run your site without having to know too much about coding. The three most popular content...

January 2, 2019

Website Development

5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Built My First Business Website

Building a new website for your business is always an interesting undertaking. It’s filled with hope for everything your new site could be, but it’s also a time of possible frustration as you try to make the site as good as possible within the...

December 27, 2018

E-Commerce Wordpress

Hosting Essentials for E-commerce WordPress Sites

Let’s say you’ve got an idea for an online store and want to get started right away. What do you actually need to get a website up and going, and start selling things online? With where technology is these days, the simplicity of the process might...

December 20, 2018

Evaluating Webmail Options: Horde vs. RoundCube vs. Squirrelmail

When you’re setting up your website, you’ll likely want to set up email functionality to go along with it. At CanSpace Solutions, we make it easy to set up the email functionality of your website. Your hosting control panel, cPanel, has three...

December 13, 2018

Hosting and Servers

Choosing the Best Web Hosting Control Panel: cPanel vs Plesk

When you’re purchasing web hosting for your site, you likely want the simplest possible way to control your domains and other features of your site. This typically involves the use of a web hosting control panel. Control panels give you a central...

December 6, 2018

Hosting and Servers Security Website Development

SSL Certificates Are Not All Equal When it Comes to Trust

If you know a little bit about website security, you probably know about HTTPS and the use of SSL certificates to make a website more secure. But did you know that not all SSL certificates are created equal? In fact, there are several kinds of SSL...

November 29, 2018

Hosting and Servers Website Development

Why You Need a Secure Website Right Now (and How to Avoid Google Chrome’s ‘Not Secure’ Warning)

Website security is understandably one of the aspects customers look for most in deciding who to do business with. As such, it’s become something that more website owners need to know more about. Do you know anything about how HTTPS and SSL...

November 22, 2018

Domains Names Security

What is DNSSEC, and Why Does My Website Need It?

Over the past few years, online security has understandably risen in prominence. One thing that every website can do to promote better security is the adoption of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). DNSSECs add a special digital...

November 15, 2018

Hosting and Servers

Battle of the Databases: Choosing Between MariaDB and MySQL for Your Website

Databases have a mystique around them, but they really don’t need to. A database stores text based information, of any kind. If you have a list of members who log into your site, that list is stored in a database. If you have an e-commerce site that...

November 8, 2018

E-Commerce

Getting Started in eCommerce: What you Need to Sell Online

Selling products online on your own website is the great equalizer. These days, practically anyone can set up an online store in just a few hours, without the traditional infrastructure costs of having a brick and mortar retail space. If you’re...

October 31, 2018

Hosting and Servers

Why You Should Update Your Website to PHP 7.2

Without getting too hung up on the details, PHP is a widely used open source scripting language that can be embedded into HTML. In practice, the way it works is this: you have a dynamically generated page on your site; when a person visits your...

October 19, 2018

Website Development Wordpress

The Best WordPress Plugins for a New Blogger

Almost every beginner blogger quickly discovers that just having a beautiful website won’t cut it. In order to thrive, each blog requires some additional help – usually in a form of plugins. Therefore, after hearing numerous concerns on how to...

April 23, 2018

Website Development

How to Make a Website for your Business: Money-saving Tips and Tricks

Welcome to the newest guide of our educational series “How to make a website for your business”. Previously, we taught you how to build a blog from scratch if you’re a Canadian professional, but also, how to make your website secure in 2018 and...

April 16, 2018

Website Development

The Costs Involved in Creating a Website for your Business

Take time to learn about spending before you start creating a website for your business, and you’ll have a chance to prepare ahead and make better choices. The truth is: professionals from all walks of life often underestimate the possible costs of...

April 9, 2018

Hosting and Servers

What is a Web Hosting Service and Why do you Need it?

One of the most common questions we’ve heard while helping people start their businesses online is definitely: what is a web hosting service? Because, the concept of domain names is rather easy to comprehend (it’s a name of your website and its main...

April 2, 2018

Website Development

How to Build Your Website for Free

Learning how to build your website for free is much easier than you might think! Until recently, such a project required a serious investment. This guide will show you a step-by-step process to build your first site, while keeping your wallet happy:...

March 28, 2018

Hosting and Servers Security

How to Make your Website Secure: Protect Your Content in 2018

“It can’t happen to me” is how most website owners think of hacking attacks and computer viruses. But one thing is certain – website security matters. And literally any site, regardless of its size and niche, can be hit by various threats. But even...

February 27, 2018

Marketing

5 Mistakes You Might be Making on Social Media

Regardless of the industry/niche, social media mistakes usually emerge from one core desire: to reach as many potential customers as possible, and do so quickly. Here are some of the factors that could prevent you from reaching your marketing...

January 19, 2018

Domains Names

Registering a .ca Domain [INFOGRAPHIC]

Our blog post “How to Register a .ca Domain and Why” recently showed you the exact steps of registering a Canadian domain, and why every Canadian business should turn to local extensions. Satisfied with the positive reactions, we turned...

January 16, 2018

Website Development

How to Build a Blog From Scratch: Canadian Bloggers Edition

For someone not especially “tech savvy”, learning how to build a blog from scratch can seem like a challenging – or even impossible – task. For Canadians in particular, resources are even more scarce. Canadian bloggers are often left...

January 11, 2018

News

CanSpace Review from “Top 10 Website Hosting”

Another great CanSpace review, this time from our friends at “Top 10 Website Hosting”! Check it out at the link below:
CanSpace Review

January 4, 2018

Website Development

New eCommerce Ideas: Get Ready for 2018

It has never been easier than now to start an online business. Resources are easy to find, the Internet is flooded with new eCommerce ideas, and the tools have evolved immensely. Still, building a profitable store is a challenging task. Why? Because...

December 13, 2017

Domains Names

How to Register a .ca Domain and Why

Whether you’re a large international business expanding to Canada, or a Canadian entrepreneur who wants to target local customers specifically, deciding to register a .ca domain may be exactly what you need for your business. In this article, you’ll...

December 8, 2017

Marketing

3 ways to Promote your Business During the Holidays

As the avalanche of ads from the holiday season demonstrates, any business that doesn’t take advantage of holiday purchasing enthusiasm misses on a lot of potential for sales. Fortunately, there are many ways to promote your business, particularly...

December 1, 2017

Hosting and Servers

What is VPS?

Here at Canspace, other than providing excellent hosting services, we also like to keep our clients and readers informed about the web hosting industry. The topic of discussion today is what is VPS, and how it came to be. VPS is an abbreviation for...

October 30, 2017

Hosting and Servers

Reasons to transfer a WordPress site

Everyone in the online blogging community or the e-commerce business starts with enthusiasm when it comes to hosting, expecting top-notch service. However, unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Instead of that, somewhere along the line, you...

October 30, 2017

Hosting and Servers

How to move a WordPress site to a new domain

Welcome to the step-by-step guide on how to move a WordPress site to a new domain. In this article, we are going to explain the process of website migration so plainly, that anyone can do it if he or she desires. The good news is that WordPress is...

October 30, 2017

Hosting and Servers

The best web hosting for small business

Let’s start with numbers, because they never lie! E-commerce is the fastest-growing business model since 1995, when Amazon launched its famous online store. Pizza Hut did it in 1994 when it started offering online purchases, but the impact Amazon...

October 30, 2017

Hosting and Servers

Reap the benefits of a cheap dedicated server

If you’re the proud owner of an online retail store or a blogger with a massive following, then choosing the right cheap dedicated server should be important to you. A website that is hosted on a dedicated server doesn’t share space or resources...

October 30, 2017

Domains Names

What is The Best Domain Extension? (TLD)

With dozens of top level domains (domain extensions) to choose from, it may be hard to decide which TLD is best for your website. This question is kind of hard to answer. Everyone’s situation is different. There is no “best” TLD, but only the best...

April 23, 2017

Website Development

Keys to a Beautifully Designed Website

Have you ever created a website, or wanted to, and just couldn’t figure out how to dial in the design to be as beautiful and polished as others you’ve seen? A beautiful, professionally designed website can mean the difference between a...

April 16, 2017

Marketing

How to Market Your Small Business Online

If you’re a small business owner looking to increase your sales and revenue, you may be wondering how you can take advantage of the internet to market your business. This is a great question. However, we understand it may be confusing trying to...

April 9, 2017

What to do after registering your domain name

Domains Names

I Registered My Domain Name, Now What?

So you’ve searched for and registered a domain; and now are wondering what is the next step in getting your website online. If this describes your situation, you’ll need to follow the below steps. 1. Sign up for web hosting In order to have your...

April 2, 2017

How to sell online and pick between wordpress, shopify and magento

Website Development

Selling Online: WordPress vs Shopify vs Magento

If you’ve ever wanted to get your own store up and move into eCommerce, you may have wondered what the difference is between WordPress, Shopify and Magento. All three are used to build online stores. So which one should you use and why? That’s the...

March 27, 2017

Website Development

Three Essentials for Starting a New Online Business

If you’ve ever wanted to start your own online business, you might be wondering what you should focus on first. There are many things you’ll have to figure out when launching your business. However, the below three things specifically will play the...

March 21, 2017

Hosting and Servers

Why You Should Avoid Unlimited Hosting Plans

If you’ve recently been looking online for companies to host your website, you’ve probably been asking yourself: What are unlimited hosting plans? Well, those unlimited plans are essentially a dishonest marketing tactic certain companies use to sell...

March 10, 2017

instagram paid advertising campaigns for small businesses

Marketing

Small Business Tips: Paid Advertising on Instagram

Ever wondered how you can start advertising your business using Instagram ads? The good news is, if you’ve ever done Facebook ads before, then you know the platform. It should be easy for you to pick up and get started with Instagram. Even if you...

March 3, 2017

How to set up an online store with a wordpress website

E-Commerce Website Development Wordpress

How to Set Up an Online Store With WordPress

What do you need to take your business online and create a store with WordPress? You don’t need much, just the following. Domain & Hosting WordPress (and theme) Shopping Cart Plug-in Payment Gateway & SSL Bank Account Let’s go over each of...

February 19, 2017

Should you use WordPress to build your website?

Website Development Wordpress

Why Should I Use WordPress to Build my Website?

Building your website with WordPress is a smart idea. Why? For anyone who has tried to get into the “website world”, I’m sure you’ve noticed the labyrinth of tools, coding languages, web platforms etc. It all can get very confusing, quickly. This is...

February 11, 2017

Hosting and Servers

Should I Use a CDN?

What are the benefits, and when should you use a CDN? If you’re like most small business owners, you may not know exactly what a CDN is. The term stands for Content Delivery Network, which is simply a system of servers distributed across the world...

February 6, 2017

How to improve your wordpress website speed

Website Development Wordpress

Improving WordPress Website Speed

If you are the proud owner of a website running on WordPress, you may be asking yourself how to improve your website speed. The answer starts with: content. Basically, the amount of data stored on your website affects the time it takes to load. This...

January 15, 2017

How to choose a good domain name for your personal or business website

Domains Names

How to Choose a Good Domain Name for Your Website

Choosing a good domain name for your website starts with understanding what your goals are, and the reach you have within your community. Let’s go over the three options you have when choosing your domain name and when you would pick them. 1. Making...

December 19, 2016

Domains Names

What is a Top Level Domain Name? (TLD)

So, are you ready to buy a new domain? Click here to get your search started and take advantage of CanSpace’s absolute lowest priced .ca domains, anywhere! Are you looking to buy a great domain name for your website and keep seeing TLD (top level...

December 13, 2016

Website Development Wordpress

Should You Use a WordPress Theme?

If you’re new to websites and want to get online for the first time – you should definitely use a WordPress theme. WordPress themes are like a cake. They’re usually pretty good right out of the oven. However, you can also add icing on the cake to...

December 8, 2016

SEO Optimizing article images for search engines

SEO Website Development

SEO Tip: Article Image Optimization

When it comes to SEO (search engine optimization), one of the most underlooked optimization tactics is image optimization. Why should you focus on search engine optimizing your images? Improve your article rankings Drive traffic through clicks on...

December 5, 2016

Hosting and Servers

How to Choose a Hosting Provider

With so many options out there – how do you choose which web hosting provider to host your website? It may seem like a hard decision to make. Rest assured, there are just a few things you’ll want to keep in mind when choosing. Server Uptime...

December 1, 2016

E-Commerce Website Development

How to Process Payments Online

If you’re looking to build an online store and sell your products it’s likely you’re wondering how you can process payments. With all the solutions and information out there it may be a little confusing… Basically, you’ll just need the following...

November 29, 2016

What is the best hosting provider for WordPress websites

Hosting and Servers

Which Hosting Provider is Best For WordPress?

Planning to build a WordPress website and not sure how to pick a hosting provider? That’s ok. There are tons of things to think about if it’s your first website. We understand how things can get confusing or overwhelming very quickly. So what should...

November 28, 2016

Hosting and Servers

What are SSL Certificates?

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. In web hosting, it’s essentially the technology that secures your website. HTTPS uses the SSL protocol to secure your website. Typically, data is sent to and from servers in text form. When connecting via HTTPS...

November 23, 2016

Domains Names

Should I Buy a .CA or .COM Domain?

When should you buy a Canadian .ca domain instead of a .com domain? It’s a question a lot of people who want a website run into… The answer is, it depends on how you want to brand yourself. Which means, you need to think for a minute about...

November 21, 2016

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