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Gary Bell

Are SiteGround a good cheap hosting option?

In today's edition of my cheap web hosting series, I look at the host at the number 2 spot in Digital.com's "best web hosting" list, SiteGround. SiteGround are a globally distributed company specialising in Wordpress. They have fewer hosting options than someone like

A look at Bluehost for cheap website hosting

Welcome to the first in my series comparing cheap web hosting. A series written following some discussion with digital.com to help them reach a new audience, and for me to spread some more knowledge. Today I look at Bluehost which is rated best overall by Digital.com owing, in

A quick look at cheap web hosting

A quick look at cheap web hosting

In the middle of 2022, I was approached by Digital.com to share some of their resources with my audience here. They saw areas where my content overlaps with their goals, so I thought I would take a look. One area they are keen to push is the cheap web

Managing your own website hosting

Managing your own website hosting

When it comes to running a website, there's a couple of obvious ways to go; shared hosting, or self hosting. Managed hosting is where your website sits on the same physical server as other websites, and they all share the resources of that server. I'll cover

Looking Ahead to 2023

Looking Ahead to 2023

It's been nearly a year since I last posted, but that's not for a lack of ideas. Rather it's been a year of being busy at work, busy with family, and changing how the two work together. I'd previously hit a point

Group Level Templates

Welcome to Tanuki Tuesday [https://www.garybell.co.uk/tag/tanuki-tuesday/], where I look at the features offered by GitLab [https://about.gitlab.com]. My very first Tanuki Tuesday post in 2021 was Issue Templates [https://www.garybell.co.uk/gitlab-issue-templates/], and I have also covered Merge Request Templates [https:

Plausible - An alternative to Google Analytics?

Plausible - An alternative to Google Analytics?

If you run a website you probably want to know how much traffic you are getting. The chances are if you are running a site, you are running Google Analytics (GA) to get that information. But with GA, are you really tracking all of your users? There's a