FastComet Blog

During the past week, our clients experienced several periods of service interruption caused by server reboots, kernel updates, and unscheduled maintenances. Our community manager and customer service staff are working around the clock to keep our clients informed and updated about our maintenance schedules and to minimize the negative impact as much as possible.…

2017 has been an extremely busy and exciting year for us here at FastComet. We first want to thank all of you, our valued clients, old and new, for supporting us thus far and trusting us with hosting your businesses, blogs, apps, and e-commerce websites.…

Mark it on your calendar and circle it in red: this Friday, November 24th is Black Friday. The perfect time for our Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals to make another rare appearance.…

WordPress 4.9 “Tipton” was released today, named in honor of jazz musician and bandleader Billy Tipton, a gifted pianist, and saxophonist. The new release marks a significant step toward a more user-centric way to customize and manage websites, with great improvements to the Customizer, new exciting functionalities to widgets, a powerful text editor for editing code, and much more.…

That dilemma has been out there, present at the beginning of each WordPress based website and a lot of us have been through it at some point. Actually, it is not surprising at all, given the fact that more than 25% of the websites worldwide are based on WordPress.…

One of the major challenges as a web hosting provider is keeping all our servers and all customers’ websites secured. We always prioritize security, making sure to implement all possible active and passive measures in order to block all attacks and malicious intents in their tracks.…

We understand that enhancing the browsing experience of your visitors and getting that desired high SEO ranking are things on the top of your priority list. To make this happen, your websites need to be located on a web server that’s close to your site’s prospective visitors.…

Performance and security are two of the most important aspects of the website development process. Of course, there are other vital things to consider, such as the niche you are in, the content you present to your visitors, the design of your project and many more.…

The 2nd beta of WordPress 4.9 is out now. The future update is expected to be officially released on November 14th, 2017. On the other hand, the Gutenberg Project is going on a somewhat different path – Matt Mullenweg has already confirmed that Gutenberg will be coming along with WordPress 5.0, but this version would come out only after Gutenberg is ready.…

We are excited to officially announce a new and very important project for us – The Observer Monitoring system is now live in beta and fully accessible via the Client Area for all shared hosting packages.…

The HyperText Transfer Protocol is probably the most used network protocol in the World Wide Web. Over the years, we witnessed the milestones it reached, its up and downsides, and of course, how it evolved.…