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WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) available today. It started out as a blogging platform but has since grown to be a website builder and ecommerce platform as well. It’s extremely customisable and user friendly, which is one of the reasons why it’s so popular.

WordPress hosting is a type of hosting that has been optimised maximally for WordPress to run as smoothly as possible. The packages include a variety of tools and services specifically tailored to WordPress. The toolkit is more often than not already installed, if not readily available for you. It can run on any web server, including LiteSpeed, which is a top performer in web server speeds and optimisation.

Technically, yes. Although, if you want the website to see the light of day you’ll need web hosting. Think of web hosting as the brick and mortar building of your website. If that building isn’t there with your website inside of it, then your website is just floating around in the ether.

Yes, you can. All it takes is a simple site migration. This allows you to transfer your entire database as well as your files to the new host. It can be done and operational within a day.
At StrimHost, we aim to make our platform as welcoming as possible, for everyone. We’ve handled plenty of site migrations to our platform and we’ll do plenty more.

The main difference is how the server is configured. WordPress hosting provides the space, resources and tools for your website to function at its peak and is optimised especially for WordPress.

Some of the notable benefits of WordPress hosting are:
It’s been specially optimised for WordPress, with enhanced performance and caching.
It includes WordPress Toolkit and WordPress CLI, making the management of your website a breeze.
Easily create staging environments to test any major (or minor) changes.
Daily malware scans and backups (this is beside our own backups and security measures)
If you’re planning on publishing a WordPress website, WordPress hosting is ideal for you. It has everything you’ll need to streamline your WordPress experience and create a seamless blogging environment.

WordPress itself is secure. As with most open-source initiatives, however, plugins, themes, and user access rights could cause some vulnerabilities. This of course means you should be conscious of what you add to your website while taking your security seriously. It’s a good idea to know basic security measures.

Two of the simplest ways involve just a couple of clicks.
Method 1:
In cPanel navigate to the Softaculous App Installer From there find WordPress and install it in one click.
Method 2:
Download WordPress from the official website and unzip the package
Create a database for it on your server then allow yourself all privileges
Upload the files to a location on your server where you want them to be
Run the installation script and it should be installed in the location you uploaded it to

Simply put, an email domain is the part of an email address that comes after the “@” symbol. For example, support@strimhost.net is the full email address, and hostafrica.com is the domain.

Find a new provider and configure your domain name there.
Create the same email address on your new server.
Redirect your domain name to the new server.
Configure your new email to send and receive mails.

Log into your cPanel and navigate to the Email Accounts.
Create an account by entering your information.
Go back to cPanel home and navigate to Forwarders and then Add Forwarder.
Fill in the relevant details.
Now you have an email account with your own email domain that can also be received by your personal email.

The hostname is what a device (usually a computer) is called within a network. With emails, it can also refer to the name of the mail server that hosts your messages. It’s something you can choose for yourself (when editing your device, not the server). When you need to be available on the internet, however, your device will use your hostname as well as your domain. An example is mail.domain.com.

E-Mail hosting is a service where your emails and related files are stored on a specific server. Web hosting usually includes emails, but email hosting excludes web and file hosting. This means email hosting is only for the sending, receiving, and creation of emails and email accounts. You're also able to configure it on your own domain and don’t need services like gmail.com to do so.

If you plan to send emails from a personalised company domain name, then yes. Email hosting is usually paired with standard web hosting. If you don't need website hosting and only need a professional email and a secure cloud server to store your emails on, then email hosting is the ideal solution.

No, you can only host emails, however, if you need to host a website you can upgrade your package. Please open a ticket with our support team and we can assist you with the upgrade.

Yes, you can access your email account via webmail. We do, however, always advise our customers to set up their email accounts on an email client like Outlook.

Your email account can be set up on your cellphone. Outlook has a free app for IOS and Android you can download and use to manage your email account on your cellphone.

Yes, you can. Doing so provides an extra failsafe. Think of it as not keeping all your eggs in one basket.

You can leave as easily as you joined because there are no contracts holding you to us.

Once we’ve received your payment and it’s been verified, you’ll get an email containing all the information you need to start using your new product within 5 minutes. Security and personalisation will of course take as much time as you decide to spend on it.

Yes, you can upgrade your package at any time. The upgrade will take 5-10 minutes.

Yes, but as with everything it requires hard work and commitment. It’s not an instant ticket to fortune or a scheme of some kind. As with most financial avenues, you have to pay your dues. If it’s taken seriously, it can be a viable financial option for you.
In its element, reseller hosting works best as an addition to your current service offerings.
Besides the actual service, what makes or breaks hosting reseller as a whole is the support that comes with it. You'll need to offer top-notch support for your client to make reselling a successful venture.

Reselling works by allowing a vendor to buy hosting services from a hosting provider for discounted prices. The vendor then sells the hosting services to their own clients.
Think of it as purchasing raw fruits and veggies from a farm, then selling the fresh produce with a bit of a markup, and perhaps also adding your own flair to it if possible.

On our website it's quite simple, actually. Head to the type of reseller hosting you'd like to become a vendor of and fill in the registration form. For example, if reselling web hosting interests you, you'd follow the prompts from this page. Complete the order and we'll send instructions from there.
It's important to note that you should at least have a business plan and an idea of how to run your reseller business before you make your purchase. As with any business venture, some knowledge is key.

Do your research first. Know your clients’ problems and their expectations
Figure out what your packages are going to be, what your markup is, and the general cost of keeping your business going.
Ensure your client support is top notch (that’s how we became as good as we are).
Invest in some marketing to help grow your customer base. From there you can expand your business and grow.