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Welcome to our Web Hosting News Blog, your ultimate source for the latest updates, trends, and insights in the ever-evolving world of web hosting. Whether you’re an experienced webmaster, an aspiring blogger, or a business owner looking to establish your online presence, our blog is here to keep you informed and empowered.

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Hosting with AI Chatbot Integration

Hosting with AI Chatbot Integration

In today's fast-paced world, customers expect immediate responses. Small businesses often face the challenge of meeting these expectations without...

Unlocking the Power of Google Analytics

Unlocking the Power of Google Analytics

Following our deep dive into the revolutionary updates in "Unveiling Google Analytics’ New Key Events: A Game-Changer for Web Analytics," it's time...

What is Google Business

What is Google Business

Google Business Profile is a free business listing from Google. It allows you to provide details and photos of your business, including your...

WordPress 6.6 Update

WordPress 6.6 Update

The latest version of WordPress, 6.6, comes with exciting new features and enhancements designed to make website building faster, easier, and more...

The Best Image Sizes for the Web

The Best Image Sizes for the Web

In the digital age, images are more than just visuals; they are key elements that enhance user experience, convey messages, and influence the...

Why You Need a VPN

Why You Need a VPN

In today's digital landscape, our online activities are more vulnerable than ever. Whether you're running a business, managing a website, or simply...

Accelerating Global Website Performance

Accelerating Global Website Performance

The Role of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) in Web Hosting: Accelerating Global Website Performance In the digital era, where instant access to...

Managed vs. Unmanaged Hosting Services

Managed vs. Unmanaged Hosting Services

In the ever-evolving world of online presence, choosing the right hosting service can be a pivotal decision for businesses and individuals alike....

WordPress: Speeding up the web

WordPress: Speeding up the web

Today, WordPress is utilized by over 40% of websites on the internet, representing a vast reach and a significant responsibility. With such...

Site Lock – what is it

Site Lock – what is it

Automatically protect your website, reputation, and visitors against cyberthreats. **1. Prevents Malware Infections One of the primary functions of...

Why You Should Use a VPN

Why You Should Use a VPN

Cyber threats are a constant concern, protecting your online presence has never been more critical. One of the most powerful tools at your disposal...

WordPress: A Step-by-Step Guide

WordPress: A Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction WordPress, the world's leading content management system, has revolutionized the way people create websites. Its user-friendly...

Unleashing the Power of Email Marketing

Unleashing the Power of Email Marketing

In the fast-paced digital landscape, where trends come and go, email marketing has stood the test of time as a powerful and cost-effective tool for...

How to Choose a Hosting Provider

How to Choose a Hosting Provider

How to Choose a Hosting Provider Important factors to ensure the best hosting are Speed, Support, Security. As your site grows you need to be sure...

5 First Steps to Secure Your New Website

5 First Steps to Secure Your New Website

When launching a new website, there are several steps that you must take to keep it safe. By following some basic security measures, you can save...

What Do I Need on My New Website?

What Do I Need on My New Website?

Too often business owners make the mistake of thinking all they need is a website online to suddenly make money for them.  Or even more think that a...

WordPress Security

WordPress Security

Having your website hacked or infected by malware is probably one of the worst things that can happen to any website, and its every site owner worst...

Should I become a Reseller?

Should I become a Reseller?

Should I be a web hosting reseller There is an easy answer to this question. Depends! Most people will have 1 or 2 sites that they can easily manage...

What is the cPanel autoSSL?

What is the cPanel autoSSL?

Did you know Hosting Australia Provides a free cPanel autoSSL? An SSL Certificate is a vital and powerful tool for securing your website and...

Best WordPress Minify Plugins

Best WordPress Minify Plugins

Page speed is an important aspect of SEO that is frequently overlooked. The loading time of a site is one of the factors considered by Google's...

7 of the Best Easter Eggs on the Internet

7 of the Best Easter Eggs on the Internet

Easter is fast approaching and with it, the chance to find hidden easter eggs on the internet, or as we like to call it, the rabbit hole. If you’re...

Benefits of Microsoft & Office 365

Benefits of Microsoft & Office 365

For a business to thrive, efficiency is critical. Any organisation may become more effective by being able to develop, collaborate, and communicate...

DNS TXT Record and how does it work?

DNS TXT Record and how does it work?

You might have come across the term “DNS TXT Record” as you browsed the web. If you haven’t heard about it before, you’ve probably come across a...

Why Site Maps Are Important

Why Site Maps Are Important

Creating a new website can be an intimidating task, it does not matter how small or large the site will be the task can be complicated by the volume...

Top Android Email Apps

Top Android Email Apps

We keep our smartphones by our side the majority of the time. We depend on them for everything from news to weather to entertainment to...

Website Designs To Avoid

Website Designs To Avoid

When the internet first went live, websites served very basic purposes. These basic websites had basic functionality and developers didn’t have a...

Backups

Backups

Backups are incredibly important to have just in case the worse happens. There can be multiple issues that could require you to delve into a backup...

Quarantine Unwanted Emails

Quarantine Unwanted Emails

Having a business email always draws unwanted attention. This is great, to have your email address posted on your...

How To Perform a Website Safety Check

How To Perform a Website Safety Check

A website safety check is simple but effective to prevent future problems. There are multiple ways hackers and other malicious entities could...

What do the cPanel resources do?

What do the cPanel resources do?

If you are a customer of our cPanel shared hosting accounts, you may not know the resources are shared with multiple customers across the servers....

Must have WooCommerce Tax Plugins

Must have WooCommerce Tax Plugins

It's Tax time……. Here at hosting-australia.com, we understand the tax man causes stress and robs you of precious time to focus on your business....

Why you should update your PHP Version.

Why you should update your PHP Version.

PHP is another important factor for your website. Upgrading and maintaining your current version of PHP is not just important for compatibly. But...

Why do Emails Bounce Back?

Why do Emails Bounce Back?

Email Bouncebacks are a common occurrence, they happen to everyone. You maybe have received multiple bouncebacks and they sometimes can be confusing...

Why 2FA Is A Must-Have for WordPress

Why 2FA Is A Must-Have for WordPress

You want to make sure you keep your WordPress site secure, it is crucial for any site – no matter how big or small. WordPress site security is such...

Shared vs VPS Hosting

Shared vs VPS Hosting

Shared or VPS Hosting Shared or VPS hosting, deciding on the most suitable hosting package for your website can seem like a confusing and difficult...

How to Recognize a Phishing Email

How to Recognize a Phishing Email

Phishing, even though its spelled differently they are still trying to have the same effect. A fisherman will cast out their line not to target...

What is Teamviewer, How do you install it?

What is Teamviewer, How do you install it?

There are multiple ways hosting-australia.com can provide support – phone – ticket – online chat. But did you know there is a program that will help...

Who/What is a Domain Name Registrant?

Who/What is a Domain Name Registrant?

Recently you will have received an email from hosting-australia.com RE: Are your AU domain details current? Just like registering your car. you need...

How to Use WordPress Shortcodes

How to Use WordPress Shortcodes

WordPress shortcodes are an incredibly useful way to customize your site and add new features. Without having to learn any code and code yourself....

Do Your Forms Need A reCAPTCHA?

Do Your Forms Need A reCAPTCHA?

We have all come across them before, and will they annoyed you from time to time, trying to type in the displayed letters and number or finding that...

Do You Need a Database, Can SQL Help?

Do You Need a Database, Can SQL Help?

Do you need a Database? The simple answer is yes, if you have a website being hosted with us at hosting-australia.com, even if you do not have users...

What are Nameservers – What do They Do?

What are Nameservers – What do They Do?

When setting up and configuring hosting you may have seen the word Nameservers so, what are they and what do they do? In this article, we will learn...

What is ModSecurity? 

What is ModSecurity? 

Built-in Security  There are many ways to help protect your website and data with the inclusion of a wide range of plugins and preventative...

What is Web Hosting?

What is Web Hosting?

What Exactly is Web Hosting? Web Hosting in the simplest terms is parking your website on the internet. An even similar way to think of it is,...

Adding JavaScript to WordPress

Adding JavaScript to WordPress

Why Add JavaScript? Adding JavaScript is the perfect option if you wish to add an array of extra elements to your WordPress website. you can do this...

How to Create a Business Email.

How to Create a Business Email.

Why Create a Business Email? You may have noticed that the majority of the emails you receive from companies have their own @domainname part of the...

Top 5 WordPress Security Plugins

Top 5 WordPress Security Plugins

Make sure you're secure 2021 After everything that has happened in 2020, its time to leave it in the past. Make 2021 the year for your...

How to Stop your Domain Name Expiring

How to Stop your Domain Name Expiring

Importance of a Domain Name A Domain Name is a vital part of any website. Without the Domain Name, it would be almost impossible to establish and...

How to Choose a Hosting Provider

How to Choose a Hosting Provider

  How to Choose a Hosting Provider Important factors to ensure the best hosting are Speed, Support, Security. As your site grows you need to be...

Understanding DNS Records

Understanding DNS Records

What is DNS, what does it Stand for? The domain name system (DNS) is a collection of databases that translates hostnames to IP addresses. The...

Top FREE Windows Email Clients.

Top FREE Windows Email Clients.

Why bother using another email client? Competition helps push the technology along, just like a new phone, console, watch or TV they all help push...

Features and Benefits of a VPS

Features and Benefits of a VPS

A Virtual Private Server (VPS), not to be confused with a Virtual Private Network (VPN), is a virtual machine that provides its own server to...

What is cPanel?

What is cPanel?

You may be thinking about starting up a business, or even having a standalone email account for personal use and have seen a certain c-word pop up...

What is a DDoS Attack?

What is a DDoS Attack?

You may have heard the term DDoS, either via the media or maybe in relation to your own websites or hosting services – in short, its a method used by hackers to disrupt and/or take down online services, such as websites, gaming platforms of apps. At its best – its extremely frustrating. At its worst, its crippling and destructive.

Why You NEED To Backup Your Website!

Why You NEED To Backup Your Website!

Have you ever spent all day/night working on a document? Spending countless hours making sure everything is perfect, only to wake up finding that...

What is WordPress

What is WordPress

What is WordPress? WordPress powers nearly one-third of the world’s websites, from small personal blogs to the complex sites of major corporations....

Installing Live Chat on your website

Installing Live Chat on your website

Website Live Chat: It's not just for the big brand name companies anymore! There was a time, up until quite recently actually, when Live Chat was...

What is an SSL, Do you need it?

What is an SSL, Do you need it?

Have you ever been stopped by a website telling you your connection isn't private? Or noticed that certain URLs start with, instead of  It's ok if...

Adobe Flash Player EOL

Adobe Flash Player EOL

Adobe has recently announced the Adobe Flash Player EOL (End of Life) date. Going into next year flash support will cease entirely. What does this...

HA’s Web Design Department

HA’s Web Design Department

Have you ever tried to draw something cool, spent five minutes on it, then realised that it looks like a toddler’s half-eaten dinner? Yeah, me too....

How to Set-Up Your Online Store

How to Set-Up Your Online Store

Hi everyone, in light of recent events, businesses all over the world are finding themselves in a state of abrupt change. COVID-19 has rocked...

Email spoofing and spam, what are they?

Email spoofing and spam, what are they?

Email Spoofing and Spam You may hear these terms thrown around a little bit but what do they actually mean? Let’s start with email spam, by...

Hosting-Australia support system

Hosting-Australia support system

Hosting-Australia support system Hi Everyone, this week I’m going to quickly go over the various means of contacting HA’s friendly support team....

The Importance of Website Load Times

The Importance of Website Load Times

What do you think when a website is painfully slow to load? Do you tap your fingers impatiently, do you sigh in annoyance? When browsing the...

Here’s Why You Need SEO For Your Site

Here’s Why You Need SEO For Your Site

https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2016/09/14/mobile-load-time-user-abandonment According to the above article published in 2016, 53% of people who...

Who uses wordpress?

Who uses wordpress?

What was once used mainly by small time travellers and writers for blogs has grown and evolved to become the biggest content management system on...

The Danger of WordPress Breaches

The Danger of WordPress Breaches

Hi everyone, this is a public service announcement to spread awareness of a series of new exploits being used to hack WordPress sites. The hack in...

WordPress 5.3 Update

WordPress 5.3 Update

Hello everyone, WordPress has recently released their newest rendition of their software and have titled it ‘Kirk’. I’d like to start by reminding...

Removal of Mixed Content on Google

Removal of Mixed Content on Google

Hey Guys, So recently Google has announced that they’ll be blocking mixed content on websites. But what is mixed content? Why does it matter? Well,...

Mail Storage Management

Mail Storage Management

Hi everyone, this week I’d like to quickly go over mail storage, what it means and how to keep on top of it. So a lot of people have trouble keeping...

How to Learn Code

How to Learn Code

While looking a bit daunting, code is really not that difficult of a language to learn as you may think, starting with the basics may seem obvious...

WordPress under attack!

WordPress under attack!

Here at Hosting Australia our developers have noticed a concerning trend. We are seeing more and more incidences of Wordpress websites being hacked...