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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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’...
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...





