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WordPress is one of the most flexible website platforms in the world. Much of that flexibility comes from plugins – small software add-ons that expand your site’s features. When you want to add contact forms, improve search engine optimisation, boost security, or connect to third-party tools, plugins make it possible
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A Virtual Private Server gives you room to build something on your own terms. But freedom has a flipside. With shared hosting, your provider handles most backups and recovery for you. With a VPS, that safety net is gone. You’re in charge of protecting your own data.
A single
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WooCommerce is brilliant out of the box. It’s like a blank counter with a till. To make it work to your needs, you start adding plugins. A few are lifesavers: payments, shipping, emails, maybe a caching tool to keep things fast.
Unfortunately, before you know it, you’ve installed
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Artificial intelligence, or AI, is one of the most talked-about technologies of our time. And it’s influencing the way we search the web, shop online, stream content, and even unlock our phones.
Many of us have been using AI for years without even thinking about it. There are elements
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If you’re thinking about building a website, WordPress often comes up as the go-to hosting platform. WordPress powers millions of websites across the globe, spanning personal blogs to major ecommerce stores and household brand names we all know. So it’s unsurprising to learn that one of the most
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Your online shop is busy taking orders. Then pages start to drag, checkouts hang, and baskets stall. Minutes later, customers see nothing but errors.
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the fastest ways to knock a website or server offline. By overwhelming your systems with fake
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Waterfall and Agile software are two different types of development methodology. Each method has its pros and cons, but what is the difference between Waterfall and Agile?
What is Waterfall methodology?
The Waterfall method of software development is more linear, with scheduled events taking place one after the other. Often
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And just like that, November is over. How do we know? Christmas ads are everywhere, and we mean everywhere. It’s become a hot debate over the years about who has the best festive ads, and from supermarkets to clothing stores, we’ve been really treated this season.
So we’
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We’ve got some exciting news for our mail customers – as part of the IONOS Group, we’re rolling out a brand new, state of the art mail platform. And the best bit? As a Fasthosts customer, you’re first in line to get it!
This isn't just
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Remember that Instagram meme you liked four years ago? Maybe it showed a cat wearing a pair of oversized sunglasses. Or it could have been a quippy piece of social commentary that was relevant at the time. Oh, you can’t quite picture it? Don’t worry, because the government
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As part of the launch of the new 'Professional' mailboxes we’ll also be introducing a free mailbox migration tool for customers to use to move their mailbox from external providers to ourselves. This migration tool can also be used to migrate to our Exchange Email.
So if
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We’ve all been there. Finishing off your masterpiece manuscript on Google Docs. Preparing to launch a new landing page on your website. Scheduling a mass campaign to target your entire email database. And then suddenly, a crash and… “503 service temporarily unavailable” is plastered all over your screen, your
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As web developers look for new ways to deliver fast and beautiful web projects, an ever-growing trend has been the implementation of a single-page application framework. But what is a single-page application, and why should you consider them for your next project?
Obviously, a single-page application (or one-page website) is
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As a Fasthosts customer, you’ve got so many benefits and features sitting in your Control Panel waiting to be used. And they’re all completely free! But, do you know what all of them are? We’ve compiled a list of all the features you have access to, right
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At Fasthosts, we’re local to the core. We thrive on supporting our fellow Gloucestershire neighbours, whether that’s as clients, partners, or even just friends. And that’s what brought us here, to the GLO5.
Join us as we take you on a tour of 5 organisations making a
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