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Bad Neighbour Effect A common problem when using shared hosting is the “bad neighbour” effect. This is when one or more of the tenants you share a server with abuse the servers resources. The long term effects of being hosted on a server with this problem are: Slow website response times Lower search engine rankings Visitors leaving due […]

  We are a Certified CloudFlare Partner! Raid Host is happy to announce a new partnership with CloudFlare, the web’s easiest performance and security solution. As a CloudFlare Certified Partner, we deliver their simple and free solution to help protect and accelerate your website. Once your website joins the CloudFlare community, it loads twice as fast […]

Checkout Success with CubeCart With recent technological advances it’s never been easier to make your aspirations a reality. With a platform as widely accessible as the internet it’s a simple matter to market your services and goods on a global scale. Where this ability was previously restricted to large companies and people with technical knowledge […]

What Is A VPS? A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a large server split into smaller servers using software to create virtual containers. A VPS feels very much like a dedicated server in terms that it has it’s own OS installed and is isolated from other customers on the same host machine. VPS hosting is […]

Do You Know The Importance Of Having A Website For Your Business? Whether your business is a brand new venture, or you’ve been in business for years, there’s no denying the importance of having a website. There are billions of people online, and in order to reach them, your business has to have a presence […]

A look at wordpress features coming in wordpress 3.6 The rockstars behind WordPress are set to release the all new version, 3.6, within the next month or so. Born 10 years ago as a fork from a similar blogging platform, WordPress has grown from blogging platform to the most used CMS (content management system) on […]

How to choose the right domain name? The domain name for any website is just as important as the website. This is the web address that will be synonymous with the website. Choosing the right domain name will make the difference between a well-recognised company and a forgettable one. The process of picking a web […]

Another successful year here at Raid Host saw our server lines expand to dual 8 core processors running on SSD storage.  SSD drives make the servers faster, more power efficient and improve reliability. We have also been recently reviewed by a well known technology blog, click below to see what they had to say: http://www.bdbloggerz.com/raid-host-finest-web-hosting-for-personal-business/ […]

How To Secure WordPress From Hackers Millions of web sites are built on WordPress and that number is increasing everyday. A side effect of WordPress’s popularity is that it is now a prime target for hackers. By following these simple steps on how to secure WordPress you can massively reduce the risk of your site being hacked […]

We are pleased to announce that we have doubled the disk space for all reseller packages. Existing customers will be automatically upgraded within the next 24hours. Thank you for hosting with us. Kind regards, Raid Host Team