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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Because there are millions of domains on the Internet, somehow, a record must be kept of who owns which sites and how to get ahold of them should you need to. Developed in the early 1970s, the WHOIS directory fulfills this purpose. When you register...
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...
Once your website gets to a certain level of success, you may find that you also have to professionalize how you administer your site. One key component to a smoothly running website is a staging site — an exact copy of your site in a “sandbox”...
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...