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Be Your Own Digital Landlord: The Smart Way to Own Your Domain
When you’re diving into the online world, and you need a domain name, it’s an exciting time. For a lot of people, a considerable amount of time is spent agonising over the perfect domain name for your online venture. It’s like picking out the name for your very own digital shopfront. Getting a domain for the first time can also be a little tricky – nothing online is straight forward, is it?
Hippo Hosting FAQs
Web hosting is something everyone needs. We work with a huge range of clients from across all industries, down to individual clients looking for personal websites. Across our website, we’ve compiled a few FAQs to explain how our many services work, but we thought we’d put together some FAQs on what you can expect when working with us.
4 ways to save money through your website
Did you know regardless of your industry, a well-optimised website will increase brand awareness, expand your market and boost revenue?
Tips for an Awesome Website
Once you have your hosting space, the next big thing to create a website that is not only easy for someone to use, but is also full of engaging content to keep them there. In this article, we look at 10 tips for an awesome website.
Hipposerve – Our Logo Story
One of the most common things our customers say to us is, “We love your logo, it’s really cute – why did you choose that?”. This is story behind our famous Hipposerve Logo and the Hipposerve Brand.
Beginning a Blog – The Hippo’s Guide to Getting Your Message Out There
Starting a blog with Hipposerve is a great way to get your message out on the web and drive welcome traffic to your website.
Should Web Hosts Block WordPress Plugins?
Plugins allow you to expand WordPress functionality, but many web hosts are starting to block certain plugins. Is this a good or bad thing?
Minecraft Servers in the Cloud
Your own Minecraft server is great, but there are many disadvantages. Cloud Minecraft hosting from Hipposerve gives you fast, stable gaming.
Reselling Hosting for Web Designers
If you are a web designer or developer, you probably love designing. However, all the techie stuff in the background of your website, probably not so much. This article looks at a different approach to reselling your website hosting to give you a passive income stream, without all the hassle that goes along with it.
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Accessing Your Dev Account
Members of the Web Design club who choose to host their own site on one of our Business Pro accounts get a free Development Server VPS set up for their staging sites. These are all high performance, so you will benefit from being able to design in a non-laggy, high performance environment.
Using the Website Status Tool
The Hippo website status tools, a free service available to website designers and resellers who are part of the Web Design Club. It enables you to monitor the status of your client’s websites and service from a handy dashboard, so you can act on issues straight away.
Updating Your PHP Options
When a hosting plan is creating, it is set up with the default PHP options. You may be working with a website or application that requires different settings.
Creating a Staging Site Using WP Toolkit
If you want to try out something new with your website, it is always best to avoid making these changes on a Live site. Fortunately, our cPanel has a great feature that allows you to create a staging site to test new features
Updating Your DNS – cPanel Hosting
Managing your DNS allows you to configure your domain name so that it can operate with many additional services, including emails,
Updating Your DNS – Domain Names Only
Managing your DNS allows you to configure your domain name so that it can operate with many additional services, including emails, office suites, third party websites, validations and tags.
Hipposerve is here to help you with all aspects of your online journey. Fron web hosting, domains and email; to web design, SEO and social media.