A2 Hosting is now hosting.com. Same speed, same support - just a new name and a bigger mission
It's been just over a year since we launched Hosting.com Optimized WordPress. The goal of Hosting.com Optimized WordPress was to take the guesswork out of how to get the fastest page loads and most secure settings. It is safe to say Hosting.com Optimized WordPress has been a success with optimized WordPress sites loading up to 6X faster than non-optimized sites.
According to a recently published Google study, hacked sites are up 180% over the past year. In an effort to help keep your websites and account from becoming another victim, we are excited to announce that we are rolling out our new security solution called Patchman. Patchman is a multi-function security tool that provide the following 3 services free of charge!
If you are a Magento user, you're probably well aware of the fact there is a beta version of Magento 2 currently available. Since this is a beta version, you won't want to upgrade your production site quite yet. However since this beta version will eventually lead to a stable version, now is as good of a time as any to start planning your upgrade.
If you are not a developer, you probably aren't familiar with HHVM and PHPNG. If you're hosting your site with Hosting.com though, it's more than likely your site is powered by PHP. The beta version of PHP 7 was just released on Friday so it doesn't hurt to learn how this new version of PHP can dramatically increase the performance of your site.
As you may have read on our June 29th blog post, the alpha version of PHP 7 was released. Since that post was published, PHP released the first beta version of PHP. We know that PHP 7 has a clear cut focus on performance. Let's look at some of the contributing elements to those performance improvements and the other enhancements included with PHP 7.
In previous blog posts, including our comparison of HHVM vs PHPNG, we talk about how PHP 7 typically beats HHVM by up to 20% and it is up to 100% faster than PHP 5.6 (even though we do need to run our own performance comparisons here at Hosting.com).
