Some of the WPX team celebrate 2021 World Dog Day at our own no-cage, open-yard animal sanctuary. Some Context First During my adult life, I lived mainly in rented apartments in Brisbane (many years), Sydney (10 years) and London (8…
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Video Transcript TERRY: Kevin for those who don’t know you, can you give us a brief introduction to who you are and your story? KEVIN: My name is Kevin Ohashi. I run ReviewSignal and most recently launched wphostingbenchmarks.com Review Signal is the largest web hosting…
Why Do Uptime Tools Matter? As we Web entrepreneurs know, getting traffic to our websites is one of our main tasks. So when visitors do arrive at our website, they should have the best possible experience in terms of page…
How Did These Independent 2021 Tests Work? Every year, Kevin Ohashi from ReviewSignal.com runs a batch of tests on different WordPress hosting companies to determine which are the best performers and which are not, regardless of the size of the company, how…
May 2021, Let The Panic Attacks Begin… Back in 2020, Google announced that something called ‘Core Web Vitals’ would be a ranking factor for Google search results from May 2021 onwards. This announcement caused quite a ruckus among some Webmasters desperate to…
In light of some recent inaccurate comparisons between WPX and Kinsta that ‘accidentally’ omitted quite a few facts, I decided to set the record a little straighter with this comparison below (especially tests that don’t show the test URLs for…
The Argument FOR Auto-Updating Your WordPress Sites When it comes to WordPress, there are at least THREE main software components to keep in mind: [1] WordPress (sometimes called the “WP core”)[2] Themes/templates[3] Plugins Let’s start with WordPress plugins. In my…
Siteground Drops A Bombshell In early October 2020, Siteground dropped a bombshell with its customers (changing policy during their non-refundable annual or multi-year Siteground subscriptions) by a change to their Terms of Service, effectively stopping ANY Siteground support help with WordPress-related…
If you ever needed WordPress hosting, you probably wondered which is better: Cloudways or WPX? Both services are popular web hosting providers, they both have advantages, and they both had slip ups in the past. So how can you know…