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The advantages of SSD hard drive storage

Is the SSD tide turning? More importantly, are SSDs worth it? Just a few years ago, solid-state drives, or SSDs, were seen as cutting-edge solutions with price tags to match,... read more

Websites

What to look for in a website builder

If you’ve decided that you or your business deserves a website but you don’t want to hire a developer to create it for you, a website builder is... read more

Websites

Web Performance Explained: Tools to capture metrics

In the last web performance explained article, we learned about the metrics we can capture to measure a website’s performance. This involved looking at the difference between quantity and... read more

Business

Pandemic tips: supercharge your small business during lockdown

Since the country slowed to a standstill in March, businesses of all types have been adversely affected and continue to operate under the shadow of the pandemic. Though workers have... read more

Security

Cybersecurity for your WordPress plugins: update or else!

WordPress is the undisputed king of the CMS realm with a worldwide market share of over 60%. With over 450 million websites using it, any dangerous security threat has the... read more

Digital

Domain transfers: moving your domain name is easy

Whether you're running a small business or an industry giant, a website’s domain is always important. If a customer asks you in person how to find your business online,... read more

Servers

LAMP stack or MEAN stack? Let’s compare

In web development, no one can argue that web stacks aren't vital to keeping things running as they should. The increasing demand for seamless technology that extends across client-side, server-side... read more

Websites

Web Performance Explained: What metrics do we capture?

Last time in “Web Performance Explained”, we explored the role of good web performance when it comes to increasing your website’s conversions and boosting its search engine optimisation (SEO)... read more

Websites

Web Performance Explained: Increase conversions & boost SEO

In the previous “Web Performance Explained” article, we covered how important good web performance is to creating a positive user experience (UX) for your website. To summarise, we learned that... read more

Business

Magento vs WooCommerce

Each accounting for roughly 30 percent of all ecommerce websites, Magento and WooCommerce are both incredibly popular. For anyone looking to build and maintain an online shop, these platforms are... read more

Websites

Web Performance Explained: Improving UX

If you’ve found yourself wondering ‘what is UX design?’, you could be mistaken for believing the misconception that user experience (UX) is only about how a website looks. But... read more

Websites

What are the world's busiest websites?

Reports show that there’s somewhere in the region of 1.7 billion websites out there on the web. But which ones are visited the most? We took a look... read more

Cloud

ECC RAM: keeping critical data error-free

Big data is only getting bigger. As more organisations rely on ballooning volumes of information, the accuracy and integrity of data have become more important than ever. Whenever data is... read more