We’ve talked in the past about what to do if your website is hacked. But as urgent as that sounds, many more websites are broken on a daily basis by their owners than by covert hackers. It might be that you delete a crucial file from an essential...
Take Your Website Analytics to the Next Level by Setting Up “Goals”
We all operate our websites with certain goals in mind. As you know by now, Google Analytics presents an amazing opportunity to measure exactly what is going on with your website during any given period of time. As you’re analyzing your stats, you...
So the Domain Name You Wanted is Taken: Some Options to Consider
We’ve all been there. You have the absolutely perfect domain name for the new site you want to build. You type it into your domain registrar of choice (we hope that’s CanSpace!) and see someone already owns it. Even worse, they haven’t built a...
What is a Web Application Firewall and How Does it Work?
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect web applications on your site by monitoring the traffic between each application and the external world. In order to interact with your website, the visitors have to pass through the WAF, which runs...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Website Caching
If you run any kind of website, you’ve probably encountered the term “caching” and most likely have turned on caching for your website in some way. But do you know how caching actually works? Your website is written in languages like CSS, PHP, Java...
Do You Need a Dedicated WordPress Security Plugin?
WordPress has an unbelievable market share—60 percent of the websites on the Internet, whether simple blogs or Fortune 500 sites, are based on the WordPress CMS (that’s roughly 24 million sites). Its ubiquity means that WordPress actually has...
5 Strategies for Better Integrating Your Website With Social Media
One of the main challenges of running a website, any kind of website, is how to bring a fresh stream of existing and new customers to visit the site. This is true whether you’re running a blog and need more readers, or a sophisticated e-commerce...
Spring Cleaning for Your Site
Spring is in the air, which might get you thinking about getting outside and other fun activities. Alongside these, you might think about spring cleaning. But your home isn’t the only thing that should be cleaned. Your website might benefit from a...
The Five Benefits of Choosing a Website Host Based in Canada
For Canadian customers, the issue of where their hosting company is located may occasionally come up. It might be tempting to consider one of the trendier companies based in the U.S. or elsewhere, if they offer cheaper pricing or other sign up perks...
What makes CanSpace Hosting Green Hosting?
Over the past few years, we are seeing a trend of increased social and environmental responsibility from all kinds of businesses. It’s a reflection of something that is becoming more important to consumers, and companies are taking note. When we...
PHP 7.4 is Almost Here! What’s New?
PHP 7.4 was released on November 28, 2019. It’s a relatively minor release, and is supposedly the last before PHP 8.0, which is rumored to have in store some more dramatic impacts on website performance. One thing that’s staggering about PHP...
How to Fix a Hacked WordPress Site
It’s every web administrator’s worst nightmare—you visit your site and find out that it’s been compromised. You can likely clear your schedule, because this is now going to take up your day, or if you’re really unlucky, your whole week. Website...
Designing Content on Your Site with SEO in Mind
First, let’s get it out of the way: great content is the best SEO practice. You can safely ignore every other detail, but if you write content that is unforgettable, people will find your website and your audience will grow. With that being...
How to Create a Business Email Address
Have you ever tried to email a particular website you were visiting, only to find that their email address was “[email protected]”? This is occasionally acceptable for small businesses or startups, where the atmosphere is inherently casual...
Hosting Resellers: How to Get Your Operation Off the Ground
There are two aspects of being a hosting reseller — customer acquisition and ongoing support. As far as ongoing support, when you get to a certain number of customers, you’ll likely want to enable customers to submit tickets for their services...
Optimizing Your Site’s Cloudflare Account for Best Results
A few months ago, we told you a little bit about Cloudflare. CanSpace is a CloudFlare premium partner, so our clients get access to all of the tool’s powerful features free of charge. Once logged in, the user will see tabs for Speed, Caching...
How to Redirect your Domain to another URL
Sometimes, you may find yourself in a situation where you want to redirect your domain to another URL. It could be that your web domain has changed, or that you’ve bought some extra domains that users frequently mistake for yours, so you can...
Web Design Trends for 2020
Like all design, website design is always changing and new trends and preferences come in and out of fashion every year. Here are a few of the trends we’re noticing among our clients’ websites this year. Less is more In an age when we’re...
