Wishing all of our members, readers and friends a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!
January 3rd 2024
The start of a new year is often cause to reflect on the past, so Phil started this thread on 1st January by commenting that web hosting is a lot different in 2024 than it was a few years ago, and offering a quick review. The biggest change he perceives is that a simple control panel like Virtualmin or cPanel can no longer take care of everything and no single hosting provider is good at everything. Things like domain registration, DNS, mail accounts, uptime monitoring, spam protection, DoS protection, backups and billing are all now typically done by third-party specialist services (some free, some not so much). He's pleased to add that the good news is that it all works much better than before and if one of the third parties fails or starts charging too much it's easy to switch. By contrast, Phil's understanding of "the bad news" is that all this separation complicates the "on-boarding" process no end, as illustrated by the list of tasks he's put together in the thread. What are the major changes you've experienced over the past few years, and are you looking forward to an easier hosting life, because of the automation now available, this coming year?
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BoxFly asks if you obsess over your pagespeed score? He does - He can't help himself! He's got his up to 97 out of 100 but he's a perfectionist and wants 100/100 which he admits is pretty unachievable. He recently switched from WordPress to HTML, and it was night and day difference performance wise. What follows is a debate over what different members feel is the minimum acceptable score (which varies from member to member) and what steps are taken to increase pagespeed. How much does using a CDN help? And the important question that soon becomes a point of debate in the thread is whether pagespeed actually affects your search engine rankings, based on the premise that slow sites negatively affect visitor experience. What is the effect of Google's decision to use a mobile style crawler to visit sites? Are they limiting bandwidth to mimic mobile data transfer speeds? There are a number of unanswered or debatable points being raised - Can you help with some actual factual information?
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Our Industry News section is the place to find current headlines from around the world of hosting and infrastructure, but other general interest threads pop up in other sections of the forum, especially our Web Hosting Lounge. Here we highlight just a selection of some of the interesting items from around the forum:
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