The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defines small businesses as those operating with 19 or fewer employees. In June 2022, it was reported that 97% of all businesses in Australia fall into this category. With these overwhelming numbers, you can only imagine the tough competition for small business owners. To gain a competitive edge, one…

Many businesses rely on WordPress to design and host their website. Aside from blogging, WordPress is a great tool for creating search-optimised, e-commerce-ready sites.  WordPress provides many more functions, features and benefits. One way to maximise everything the platform offers is through managed WordPress hosting services. This concierge service handles the technical aspects of your…

It’s not uncommon these days for digital marketing agencies to white-label web hosting services to their clients. The motivation is simple, you get recurring income for web hosting and there’s very little to do. Or so you think. The reality is often VERY different, so much so that many agencies often struggle with their profitability…

Any digital marketer knows that if your website doesn’t load quickly, your bounce rate is going to increase. This means your clients are missing out on potential leads. You want your clients to see an ROI on your digital marketing campaign spend, which means you want as many people to get in touch with them…

If you’re running any kind of digital marketing campaigns for your clients, then you probably understand that page load speed is extremely important. A website which loads too slowly will destroy organic search engine rankings, increase bounce rate, punish your quality score in Google Ads, and drastically reduce your conversion rate. It doesn’t matter if…

It happened. Despite all your precautions, your WordPress website has been hacked. For businesses, this can mean a serious loss of income every minute it’s down. So what can you do to get back up and running? And how can you avoid this in the future? Let’s have a look at the key steps you…

Current generation instance families are optimised for different types of workloads; i2: Storage optimised (SSD large capacity storage) r3: Memory optimised, and also the lowest cost per Gbyte c3: Compute optimised, on the latest CPUs, lowest price per compute performance m3: General purpose instances with a balance of all the above.