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Earlier this month, Netflix said that it’s ending the 30-day long free trial that it used to entice people into getting a subscription. Today, during its earnings call, the company stated that it’s exploring new ways for people to experience its library before they get a subscription.

The first test the streaming giant is performing is a free weekend-long trial. The company will start this experiment in India, where it’ll offer its service for free on the weekend of December 4, as reported by Protocol.

India is the first of many countries where Netflix will test this two-day “Streamfest” to hopefully gain more subscribers. The company would want to compete with Disney+ Hotstar in the market, which has more than 8 million…

When you’re starting up a business, money is always tight. Any way that you can defer costs until you have a solid turnover should be considered, and that’s why many small business owners look for free web hosting for their first website.

But good free web hosting can be challenging to find. We advise that even if you’re on a strict budget, you should choose a low-cost web hosting service instead because free web hosts usually have to cut corners to stay afloat. You’ll always come up against the tight limitations that free web hosting has, such as limited disk space, slow speeds, or lack of reliability. Many free web hosts are designed to compel you to upgrade to one of its paid plans once you’ve become annoyed at the constraints of the free version. 

That being said, we…

Cloudflare announced a new service that dramatically speeds up any WordPress website with improvements of up to 72% in Time to First Byte. Cloudflare is partnering with WordPress.com hosting to provide the new service for free. Anyone not hosted there can claim sign up for as little as $5 per month. Sites on modest shared hosts can experience dramatic improvements in speed.

The service is called, Automatic Platform Optimization (APO). Sites using APO have improved Time to First Byte (TTFB) by 72% and Largest Contentful Paint by 23%.

Shared Hosting Bottlenecks Solved

Shared hosting has generally been more susceptible to slowdowns because of the burden put on server resources which can cause database lookups to slow down and sites to become less responsive.

Published Monday, Sep. 28, 2020, 4:04 pm

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Web hosting providers support approximately 2 billion websites and the industry is expected to reach $216.59 billion by 2025. Their services provide the heart of the online presence of any website, whether it’s a small online business, huge enterprise, or a family blog.

Measuring the success of web hosting companies can be difficult because it depends on whether one is comparing revenues, the number of hosted websites, traffic…

Earlier this year, the web hosting company Bluehost began offering free site migrations for qualifying WordPress websites within the first 30 days after signup.

As part of this offer, the company’s customers are able to transfer one WordPress site and they also have the ability to review the site before it goes live.