W3 Total Cache – Guide to WordPress Caching

With over 1 million active installations, W3 Total Cache is one of the most popular ways to optimize and manage the cache for your WordPress site. This can result in faster load times and less strain on your server, which can also help your SEO (search engine optimization) efforts. How to Use W3 Total Cache Read More >

Update WordPress From the Admin Dashboard

In this article, I’ll quickly show you how to update WordPress to the latest, greatest, and most secure version currently available. An updated WordPress installation will ensure your WordPress site is as fast as can be and helps protect your website from malicious users. It’s really a very simple process to upgrade WordPress, that said Read More >

How to Create a Website Stress Testing Plan

An important aspect of managing a website is benchmark testing in order to determine how it performs while under stress. This can help you identify any potential issues that may occur before it affects your live site. There are many ways that you can perform load testing and stress testing on your site, you must Read More >

How Much Does PageSpeed Fluctuate?

When testing your site with the Google PageSpeed Insights tool you may have noticed that the results may vary over time. In this guide, we’ll go over this tool and explain why it might fluctuate over time, then explain what this means for a webmaster. How Do I Run a PageSpeed Insights Test? There are Read More >

How to Stress Test Your Website With ab (ApacheBench)

The ab command also known as ApacheBench is a command line benchmarking tool for testing the amount of time it takes your server to respond to HTTP requests. You can use this information to determine the estimated number of simultaneous requests your Apache HTTP server can handle before it begins to degrade the overall performance. Read More >

Top Monitoring Plugins for WordPress

It can take a lot of time to get your WordPress site up and running quickly by optimizing it and setting up things like caching. But once you get your site online and performing well, you want to make sure it stays that way.  There are a lot of things you can monitor but two Read More >

Are WordPress Loopback Requests Enabled?

Loopback requests are a method used to perform various background processing tasks for WordPress. These are often important for the regular function of your site even though you do not necessarily see them running. An example of this would be the wp-cron.php file, which requires loopbacks to run and is used to automate tasks like Read More >

White Label Branding – How to Guide

In this guide, we will show you how to update the white label branding on your Reseller account. This is a great way to start a web hosting company of your own without having to worry about managing the servers. InMotion’s experienced System Administration team optimizes the environment and monitors it 24 hours a day, Read More >

How to change MySQL server time zone

In this article, we’ll discuss how you can change the MySQL time zone on your server so that data stored in your databases will by default use the time zone that you have specified. A lot of the time your local time zone will be different than the MySQL server’s time zone, and this could Read More >

Disable WordPress Autosave

In this article, I’m going to teach you how you can disable or modify the WordPress autosave feature that is used while you’re editing pages or posts. This can help prevent your account from using up excessive server resources while you’re working on your WordPress site. By default, WordPress will autosave any pages or posts Read More >

How to Manage Users in Google Workspace

User management is key to Google Workspace administration since it’s the first step in building a collaborative team environment. Once that user logs in they have access to Google-powered apps like Gmail, Meet, Drive, Calendar, and more. These tools simplify communication, file sharing, and provide everything you need to unite your team for success. In Read More >

How to Verify Your Domain With Google Workspace

After purchasing Google Workspace and activating your subscription, you will then need to verify your domain with Google. This is done by adding a specific TXT record to your domain’s DNS. This guide will show you how to verify your domain with Google using a TXT record, so you can complete the Google Workspace setup Read More >

How to Activate Your Google Workspace Subscription

After purchasing Google Workspace, you will need to activate your subscription and verify your domain. You will then have access to the Admin Panel where you can manage your Google Workspace account. This guide will show you how to activate your Google Workspace subscription. Topics include Activate Google Workspace Google Workspace F.A.Q. Activate Google Workspace Read More >

Starting a Joomla 4 eCommerce Store With HikaShop

Joomla Hosting is a versatile platform for starting an online store and the HikaShop extension is a popular and well-reviewed way to add this ability. Once installed you can easily set up digital or shippable products and begin selling them from your website This guide will help you start a Joomla 4 eCommerce store using Read More >

Small PHP Maximum Post Size Joomla 4 Warning

This guide will explain how to fix the “small maximum post size” error in Joomla 4, as it relates to PHP hosting. While maintaining our site we began seeing the following warning message: Small PHP Maximum Post SizeThis is the maximum amount of data that can be sent via POST to the server. This includes Read More >

Joomla 4 Log Settings

Joomla 4 logs can be an essential tool when you are troubleshooting website issues. It can provide detailed information about what is happening to your site in the background.  For example, if a script or form is not working as expected, the logs will provide a specific error message. You can then use that error Read More >

Using Text Filters in Joomla 4

Joomla 4 text filters can be used to allow or limit what HTML tags or attributes groups can use within the text editors. Joomla includes some default filter settings that are typically adequate for most situations. But, there may be times when you want to block or allow additional HTML tags or attributes.  For example, Read More >

How to Set Joomla 4 Update Channel

New versions and updates to Joomla software are released through what is known as update channels. Your Joomla site will then receive update alerts based on which one you select.  For example, you can set your site to only receive updates that are considered “stable”. This means that it has been well-tested and is an Read More >

Joomla 4 Configuration.php File

The configuration.php file is used to control many aspects of your Joomla 4 site. In fact, all of the settings included in the file directly correlate to a Global Configuration setting in the Admin Panel of Joomla. While it is possible to manage the Global Configuration settings in the Admin Panel, there may be instances Read More >