{"id":1446,"date":"2019-02-20T04:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T04:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2019-05-01T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T05:10:08","slug":"when-apples-arent-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/when-apples-arent-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"When Apples aren\u2019t Apples!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Web Hosting Explained:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hosting is such an aggressively marketed service these days. It has become hard to compare apples with apples, much like a phone plan.\u00a0 Many companies are trying to get people to host their site on low entry level prices for the first year knowing they are not likely to shift (a bit like phone companies or ISP\u2019s).\u00a0 Things to check with cheap hosting plans include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Speed:<\/strong> how fast sites load on their server?\u00a0 Google ranks on speed.\u00a0 A good test is to ask for a sample site on the plan you are considering and run a speed test <a href=\"https:\/\/tools.pingdom.com\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Security:<\/strong> the last thing you want is a site hack!\u00a0 One precaution is a security certificate (known as SSL).\u00a0 It puts a green lock next to your web address, google loves this!\u00a0 Make sure SSL is included in your plan (more on SSL above).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Support:<\/strong> there is nothing more annoying than big call centre cues or online ticket systems.\u00a0 Call their tech support and see what happens!\u00a0 Some companies have a quick sales number and a slow one for tech support!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Age: <\/strong>lastly age is a big factor.\u00a0 New sites need the latest versions of software.\u00a0 Just like a home computer, if it\u2019s old it won\u2019t run new sites.\u00a0 Most new sites need PHP 7.0, our custom sites need this and most new plugins and WordPress 5 also need it too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hosting is something we only provide to our customers and as such don\u2019t really compete on price, more on; service \/ reliability &amp; support.\u00a0 Get in touch today for more info. <u><br \/>\n<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Hosting Explained: Hosting is such an aggressively marketed service these days. It has become hard to compare apples with apples, much like a phone plan.\u00a0 Many companies are trying to get people to host their site on low entry level prices for the first year knowing they are not likely to shift (a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/digital.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designscope.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}