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Worried that you might not be taking all the basic steps to secure your WordPress site? A new eBook from iThemes covers simple WordPress security tips for keeping your site safe from hackers; including 3 kinds of security your site needs and 4 best security practices.

If you host your website with HostGator, your site was probably down or experiencing issues over the last few hours. What could you have done to prevent it? Let’s put our heads together and see what we can come up with.

Google has thrown the challenge down by considering website loading speeds when determining search engine rankings.  After all, NOBODY likes a slow loading website.  If you’re as addicted to speed and the code poetry that is WordPress, here’s how you can have both. 

jHost is only just out of BETA and already we’re feeling pretty good about ourselves.  Might be the time of year or the progress we’ve already made.  Whatever the case, if you’re feeling social, join us on LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, or Twitter.  

As we designed, developed and tested our web hosting technology, we just couldn’t help ourselves from putting our little spin on things–including the web hosting control panel (cPanel) itself.  Wanna sneak peek?