What To Do If Your WordPress Website Gets Hacked
With WordPress being so popular and the vast amount of themes and plugins, it is a favorite target for hackers. In 99% of cases, your WordPress website is not actually targeted, most of the hacks are automated and carried out by bots. Why do hackers hack WordPress websites? Usually, they are using your […]
Continue Reading...Shared Cloud Is The Future
At Kickassd we are always looking for ways to improve our service, and offer you the best possible service. What is the #1 cause of downtime in the shared hosting industry? Typically shared hosting providers use strictly dedicated servers. When hardware fails on a dedicated server it often means downtime and it […]
Continue Reading...Kickassd Elastic Sites | The Future Is Here
The 2 main reasons people change from shared hosting to a VPS are: More resources Performance issues We are happy to introduce “Elastic Sites” which negates the need to move from shared hosting to a VPS. On our servers we run CloudLinux which allows us to isolate users and resources same as a […]
Continue Reading...Easy WordPress Staging With VersionPress
We recently changed the way you access GIT on all of our servers and have also now added wp-cli to all of our servers which makes it easy to setup WordPress Staging and recovery for your WordPress site. To set this up we will use VersionPress which is really an amazing plugin that is […]
Continue Reading...Kickassd Interview With WHSR
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Web Hosting Secret Revealed and I must say it was a pleasure! The Kickassd interview was conducted by Lori Soard who is a writer, teacher of writing, and holds degrees in Philosophy, Journalism, and Creative Writing. She also has won awards for her books and […]
Continue Reading...Kickassd PCI Compliance Quarterly Scans
We take your data security very seriously, and so one of our steps to ensuring your security on our systems we do quarterly PCI compliance scans on all of our servers and client portal. We couple these with intensive internal security audits to make sure we are doing everything possible to keep you and […]
Continue Reading...Kickassd Slack Chat Rocks | Join Us!
Slack is awesome, and so we decided to setup a channel where not only staff, but our customers as well can hangout and chat in real time. We want to get to know you as we hope you would like to get to know us. This is an awesome way to stay up to […]
Continue Reading...WooCommerce 2 Billion Hits A Month 0.7 Second Load
WooCommerce is an extremely popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress. If you have an online store or are looking to setup one you will most likely be somewhat familiar with it. Woocommerce has a reputation for being harder on server resources that regular WordPress, and many people recommend a good sized VPS (2GB Ram+) for […]
Continue Reading...Shared vs VPS | Do You Really Need A VPS?
One of the concepts behind Kickassd was to create a web hosting service with the ability to host much higher traffic sites than your traditional shared hosting service. We have noticed a trend developing over the past year of people migrating their sites to VPS because of performance issues, stability issues, forced by their provider, […]
Continue Reading...WPDispensary The Best WordPress Plugin For Dispensaries
The legal Marijuana industry as a whole is exploding, especially across North America, estimates for 2016 close to $6.7 billion. With this massive growth comes 1000’s of new Marijuana based businesses and dispensaries, and of course the majority of these businesses need a way to market and sell their products. The WPDispensary WordPress plugin […]
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