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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
Kickassd Education Sponsorship Program
Being a student can be tough when it comes to finances, we have been there and we know. The same goes for teachers. With constant cuts to the educational system sometimes you just do not have the funds to offer your students the resources … [Read more]
Why Web Hosting In Canada Is Great
Canada is becoming increasingly popular as the place in North America to host all types of websites, and for good reason. Here are a list of reasons why hosting in Canada is a better choice in many cases than hosting in let's say the … [Read more]
OpenVPN On Centos 7 With CSF Easy Setup
Using a VPN in your everyday internet activity is smart and I highly encourage people to take up this practice. Using a VPN in this way encrypts your connection so not even your ISP can see what you are doing. Any sites you visit will not … [Read more]
Amazon S3 Storage With Cloudflare As CDN
In previous articles I outlined how you can offload Wordpress media files to Amazons S3 as well as use Amazons Cloudfront as a CDN to serve those files. This decreases load on your site, storage, and offers better load times on media files … [Read more]
Amazon S3 Cloudfront For Your WordPress Site
In our previous article Amazon S3 Storage For Your Wordpress Site we explained how to save space and reduce load on your Wordpress site by offloading media to Amazons S3. In this article we will take things farther and show you how you can serve … [Read more]
Amazon S3 Storage For Your WordPress Site
In many cases much of your resource use comes from serving files on your Wordpress site. An easy and cheap way to lower resource use is to use Amazon S3 Storage For Your Wordpress Site. This is quite easy and actually free for 1 year if you stay … [Read more]
WP Super Cache VS Litespeeds WordPress Cache
WP Super-Cache VS Litespeed Wordpress Cache If you are running Wordpress and speed is key to you (and it should be) than caching is a must. Here at Kickassd we include multiple caching systems by default to speed up your sites and make sure they are … [Read more]