Have you ever wondered while browsing your favorite website, that how do servers work? At the mention of web servers, a lot comes to mind as far as the internet is concerned. Web servers play a key role in internet-based communication without which we wouldn’t have any online experience. You wouldn’t even be reading this article. This is because this website is currently sitting on a web server somewhere. So, every time you visit any…
People love fast loading sites. This is especially true for customers visiting e-commerce websites. An average customer will be happy, more satisfied and will likely to visit your site again thus increasing your conversion rate. On the flipside, users have no patience for slow loading websites. According to Google, 53% of consumers are likely to abandon sites that take more than 3 seconds to load. This shows how crucial site performance is. In fact, so…
This blog post is inspired from the following question over at Quora – https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-host-a-website-on-my-computer-if-I-have-dynamic-IP I’ve come across this question across multiple forums, Reddit and it’s quite often asked. Technically speaking, yes it is definitely possible to host a website from your computer. A server is nothing more than a computer connected to the internet and so essentially your computer connected to the internet is a server as well. However, should you do it? I’d say no, it’s an expensive…
Nginx is an alternative web server to Apache (which is bundled with cPanel by default). It offers several performance improvements over Apache. Nginx is the second most widely used web server (Source: W3Techs). This guide assumes that you have root access to your server or VPS via SSH. Before you proceed please note that cPanel does not officially provide support for Nginx as of yet. Installing Nginx on a cPanel Server We will first download the…
Following up on our last post on how to optimize your VPS for wordpress performance, in this post we will go over installing and setting up Varnish on your cPanel server. A quick reminder on what varnish is. Varnish is a web cache that runs on linux, it listens on port 80 (the usual HTTP port) and connects to an web server such as Apache running on al alternate port on the server, such as…
Having a fast websites is essential to providing a great user experience to your visitors (no one likes slow websites). It is also a very important factor for your search engine rankings. Your visitors expect a fast website across all platforms – Desktop to Mobile. A study done by Kissmetrics stacks up page abandonment rate alongside page load times. If you have growing wordpress website and attract a fair number of visitors chances are that…
Where we are and what are our plans for the near future Hello everyone, My name is Adam, I’m have been working for a few months now at Host4Geeks as the Technical Operations Manager. Firstly, I’d like to wish everyone a very happy and fruitful new year! 🙂 December and the end of year is the period where every person and company thinks often what he accomplished this year and what are the plans for…
In this post we would like to introduce you to our new SSD based server setup for our Shared, Reseller and Semi-Dedicated customers. Previously our servers consisted of standard HDD drives, which have a lot of space, however they are not really fast. Over the past weeks we have been upgrading our cPanel nodes to our next generation hybrid setup! Ok, so what is this next generation setup? It’s great! It means that we have…
