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Website Maintenance Guide: Quick Tips to Speed Up Your Website.
As a long-time member of the Bluehost team, I like to monitor the pulse of our business via social media. Quite often, while perusing hosting customer tweets and Facebook posts, I see users saying things like: “My website seemed fast before but now it feels slow,” and “Is my server having issues?” In almost every…
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How to Add an Email Opt-In Form to Your Website
If you have valuable information to share with your customers on a regular basis, then it might be time to start an email list. Start by putting an opt-in form on your website – you know, those “Sign up for our newsletter,” boxes you see on other websites. Doing so will allow you to expand…
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Network Issues Resolved
Our network recently experienced intermittent outages that may have affected access to your website and account services.The Bluehost team and I are truly sorry for any inconvenience this caused you. We take the reliability of our hosting seriously and I felt you deserved an update.On August 2, 2013, during routine hardware maintenance which doesn’t typically…
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Bluehost Presents Operational Case Study at OpenStack Summit
Since the beginning, Bluehost has been built with open source technology. You could say it’s in our blood. So to expand our products and to support our customers with the best hosting services possible, we have been pioneering implementation of new, cutting edge OpenStack technology.Recently, several members of our admin team attended the 2013 OpenStack…
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Data Center Update
Last night we experienced some issues in our data center that affected a portion of our clients. We wanted to take a moment to let you know what happened.At approximately 6:22 PM MST our primary Data Center experienced an electrical transient. An Automatic Transfer Switch on one of our legs of power failed, causing some…
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Customer Spotlight: Sarah Metzger
We love our customers, and we’re not just saying that! Genuine customer service is one of our foundational principles here at Bluehost. We strive to do whatever we can to help our clients succeed. Typically we do this over the phone, but every so often we are lucky enough to meet a client in person…
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Plan for building a business website
While there are several things you’ll need to help get your site online, nothing is more important than first clearly defining your goals. Doing so, more than anything else, reveals which requirements are most important for your website so you can make a comprehensive plan that will take you successfully across the finish line. So…
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Stop Badware and Protect your Website!
At Bluehost, we are committed to protecting our customers and to keeping the web safe. So we recently teamed up with StopBadware, a nonprofit organization dedicated to winning the fight against badware, to make a video about why badware is dangerous and how to prevent it from harming you or others. Come on an adventure…
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Protect & Accelerate your Website with CloudFlare
CloudFlare is an advanced content delivery network (CDN) that provides optimal performance and security to your website. With over 14 data centers around the world, their CDN automatically caches your static website files. While dynamic content remains on your Bluehost web server, static files are physically closer to visitors. CloudFlare then uses a technology called Anycast…
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Bluehost partners with PrestaShop
Thanks to a new partnership with PrestaShop, Bluehost users can now take advantage of a great open-source solution to create a great Ecommerce website. PrestaShop is one of the most reliable and flexible ways to sell online. A leader in e-commerce software, PrestaShop allows you to easily install, build, and maintain a secure, professional shopping…