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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

Hosting and Servers News

What’s new in MySQL 8.0?

December 19, 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

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

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

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

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

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

Category - Hosting and Servers

What are Nameservers and How Do They Work?

What’s new in MySQL 8.0?

Version Control Systems – Getting Started with Git

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

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

Five Questions You Should Be Asking Your Hosting Provider

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

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

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

How To Start Your Own Hosting Company Using Our Reseller Plans

PHP 7.3 is Here!

CanSpace Now Supports Node.js!

Using Analytics to Identify Problems With Your Site

Do You Need a Dedicated IP Address for your Site?

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