Category - Hosting and Servers

The last year created an unprecedented move to remote work that would have been unimaginable under different circumstances. Companies like Zoom made the best of this new environment, providing a necessary service to millions of new remote workers...

Slowly loading pages, viruses, and problems with high traffic. Sound familiar? These are the most common server errors that are not just super annoying but can also be disastrous for your business. If clients are unable to access your website...

As a design or marketing agency, one of the best ways to provide your customers with a fully integrated website solution is to work with a reliable and fully-featured hosting platform. Getting a hosting partner on your side is going to help you to...

CentOS (short for Community Enterprise Linux Operating System) has been a mainstay in the toolkits of web developers for over 15 years. Since its inception in 2004, it has gone through 8 versions, the most recent one released just in 2020. For a...

Occasionally, there are advancements in technology that affect the way we all use the Internet. We’ve covered HTTPS before, as well as its importance for all modern websites. But HTTPS is not static — it’s always being improved. TLS (Transport Layer...

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurs when there is a malicious attempt to negatively impact the functioning of your website, server or network. DDoS attacks do this by flooding the target with increased traffic. Due to the high level...

For companies that require more control over the performance of their site and their server environment, CloudLinux is a great option. CloudLinux is a very popular environment for servers, and currently underpins about 20 million websites. ...

A new year means new possibilities. If you’ve been with your current web hosting company for a while, you might be wondering what else is out there. And you should be. There are so many hosting companies in the marketplace now, that no one should...

As a site owner, you’ve probably already heard of HTTP, even if you don’t know exactly what it is. The world of website development is filled with acronyms and shortcuts that can befuddle even the most experienced programmers. To make things easier...

This November was an important month for users of cPanel: PHP 8 support was released on November 26th. The last time a major version was released was 2015, which was ages ago in Internet time.  First things first: as a CanSpace customer, we...

As a website owner, you should continuously be evaluating the quality of your web hosting provider. Are you happy with the performance? Are there features that competitors now offer that your host perhaps doesn’t? Eventually, you may decide that...

When it comes to web servers, there’s always bound to be much discussion about performance between the different options out there.  What’s a web server? It’s essentially the software that makes the server work, which is to say, the software...