Hosting

SLGD got a notice that a client’s website bandwidth had exceeded to over 13GB of bandwidth. Hosted bandwidth is when people visit your website, they download your website to their computer into what's called cache. This is a normal computing process. Say if a visitor visits your website and goes to every page on your website and your website is 100 MBs you multiply that by how many visitors you get in a month and that gives you your total bandwidth for the month. This time I have a suspicion...

Note to a potential client: I reviewed your website and there are a lot of pages in the navigation that don't go anywhere. I also see that you are hosted by Network Solutions, the slowest webpage loading host in the industry. See your loading speeds (attached images) for mobile and desktop. What does this mean? People expect websites to load within seconds and if your website takes too long to load, people bounce to your competitor. What can you do about it? Well first, find a faster host then follow the...

It's best to have your DNS at the Domain and not the Host. Because your DNS is what controls connectivity to all website services ie hosting, website, email, etc. Websites and hosting can come and go. So if your DNS is at the domain then when changing hosts nothing has to change with the DNS. A DNS change; your website, email and etc can be offline for 4 to 24+ hours. If you are changing your hosts and your DNS is at the current host then the DNS has to...

My website has been hacked! Website hacks can be detrimental to you and your website visitors and customers. Cybercriminals compromise thousands of websites everyday. Hacked websites can be visible and invisible to users and can be harmful to anyone viewing the page. For example the hacker may have infected the website with harmful code which in turn can record keystrokes on visitors’ computers, stealing login credentials for online banking or financial transactions. On a lighter note hackers can bring your website offline which can cost you money to get back...