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We’ve already reviewed 34SP’s Professional Hosting platform. However, with dedicated WordPress hosting becoming more popular – and with 34SP having recently updated its offering – we wanted to see how its plans for hosting the popular CMS stacked up.

Today, around 40% of all websites are built using WordPress, so dedicated hosting makes a lot of sense. You can delegate responsibility for keeping it updated to your host, and the host itself can optimise the platform for the CMS, helping to keep the sites it powers light and fast.

While this may mean that what you can do with your web space is limited – you couldn’t, for example, write and host your own PHP web apps – 34SP has gone further than some rivals and implemented a proxy function to draw in external content and…

Businesses that don’t want to commit to long-term contracts for cloud collaboration services should check out HiDrive from web-hosting company Ionos. You can choose between four plans, and all are available on affordable monthly contracts so you can cancel them with minimum notice.

Ionos doesn’t offer free trials but you can try it out for next to nothing, with a one-year HiDrive Business contract currently costing a piffling 50p per month for five users and 1TB of storage. We wanted to see everything HiDrive has to offer so we tried out the Pro plan, which costs £20 per month, starts with 2TB of cloud storage for ten users, enables support for the SMB/CIFS, FTP/SFTP, Rsync, SCP and Git protocols, and rounds it off with data backup services for users’ personal devices.

The HiDrive admin…

A fast website is a crucial part of improving your SEO rank; however, guides will oftentimes give generalized statements of optimization and what it can do for your website, or go in-depth into more technical aspects that might overwhelm some users.

In this article, you will be provided with the most basic steps to improve the performance of your website without getting into the nitty gritty of code.

WordPress websites and optimization

Site speed is more important than ever, end users will leave websites if the load time for pages or assets takes more than a couple of seconds, so every moment counts to capture your audience’s attention and maintain your conversion rate.

One of the most prevalent concerns with a part of the WordPress community is…

When it comes to web browsing, five seconds can seem like an eternity, especially when users are waiting for a slow website to download. This lag can have major consequences, as Google considers a site’s speed when determining your search presence.

According to Google, the likelihood of users abandoning a website site grows by 32% when page load time increases from one to three seconds. In another study, about four in five website visitors who are dissatisfied with site performance say they won’t return to the site again. 

That means if your website is unresponsive and slow, you’re losing customers, and it’s time to do something about it. Here are some suggestions for speeding it up and making it…