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The #1 Way to Prepare Your Website for Holiday Traffic: Upgrade Your Hosting

The post The #1 Way to Prepare Your Website for Holiday Traffic: Upgrade Your Hosting appeared first on HostGator Blog . Is Your Site Prepared For Holiday Traffic? Time To Upgrade Your Hosting When you’re getting your online store ready for the holiday shopping season , there’s a lot to plan, like Black Friday deals, seasonal products, and marketing campaigns. Remember to include the store itself in your holiday prep, too. For customers to find and buy your holiday deals, your site has to stay up and running—no matter how many shoppers show up. It also has to stand up to hackers who try to sneak in with the holiday crowd. Here’s how to prepare your site to handle heavier than normal traffic, give your shoppers a great experience, and keep your store secure.   Can Your Site Handle the Traffic Numbers You Expect? Black Friday isn’t just crowded in brick-and-mortar stores. More than half of US shoppers made at least one purchase on Black Friday in 2017, and the total haul for online Black Friday sales last year was more than $5 billion. That’s a lot of people going online. If your hosting plan includes monthly limits on how many visits your site can have, you could find your site hitting its traffic limit on the biggest shopping weekend of the year. And if you can’t quickly scale up your site’s capacity to serve a throng of shoppers, your site could slow to a crawl or even crash. What to do now: Look for real-time scalability that you can activate with a click to keep your site online and running smoothly even when goods are flying off your virtual shelves. Or look for an upgraded hosting plan that doesn’t cap monthly site visits so you can turn all your attention to your sales over the holidays. Are You Protected Against Downtime? If your site does go offline during holiday sales, shoppers may only come back later if you have products they want and can’t get anywhere else. We’ve blogged about the importance of creating exclusive deals for Black Friday , and we just discussed why hosting scalability matters. But there’s another thing that can lead to site crashes—hardware failure on the host’s end. It’s not common, because web hosts work hard to maintain their equipment, but it can happen. If it happens during peak shopping times, your business could suffer unless your host has a seamless Plan B. What to do now: Find out if your hosting plan includes failover capability . Failover means your host is ready and able to switch your site to another server if there are any issues with your current one so your site doesn’t go offline due to issues on their end. Failover switches from one server to another are usually seamless, but some include a brief downtime during the transition. If your plan doesn’t include failover protection, it may be time to upgrade.   How Fast Do Your Store Pages Load? Page load times are now a real factor in search results , so if you want your store to get found, it needs to get fast. When shoppers arrive, fast page loads can keep them in your store. The Financial Times found that just a one-second increase in page speed boosted engagement by 5% , showing that any improvement in load time is worth the effort. Some page-speed improvements you can do yourself, like optimizing the images on your WordPress-powered site . When you’re planning page-speed improvements, keep in mind that your product pages will be the first place shoppers land in your store if they find you through product search results. But images and videos—the centerpieces of product pages—are often the slowest elements to load, and 40% of shoppers will simply leave if your page takes more than 3 seconds to load. After you optimize your images, you can use Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool to check your pages’ performance and get more suggestions for improvements. Your site may need more improvements that can only come from upgraded hosting, like proper cache configuration, top-of-the-line hardware, and optimal server density. What to do now: Check your site’s performance on PageSpeed Insights . Use the recommendations Google generates to talk to your hosting service about upgrading for load time improvements.   Does You Have Site Security for Your Online Store? Shoppers aren’t the only ones who flock to online stores during the holidays. Data thieves and other malicious actors know that during the holidays, merchants are so busy filling orders that they don’t notice or don’t have the resources to deal with data theft attempts and malware attacks. The last thing you need during peak sales season is a data breach or denial of service attack that throws your business into chaos when it should be racking up sales. As with page speed, some site security practices are up to you, like ensuring that you’re running the most up-to-date versions of your store platform, plugins, and related software. The devices you use to work on your store should be updated and fully secured, too. And we all know that it’s important to use secure, unique passwords . But there are ways your hosting service can help, too. What to look for: Does your current hosting plan include regular scans to detect and remove malware from your site? Is there an upgrade option that protects your store even further by guarding against DoS attacks that could crash your site?   Does Your Host Provide Website Analytics? Maybe the only thing more important for retailers than strong holiday sales is a serious post-season analysis of holiday sales activity. Much of this will draw on your Google, email, and social media analytics, but some of it should come from your site itself. Is it easy for you to find and monitor your site’s traffic trends, uptime, page load speed, and other performance data? You’ll need it to see what works during this year’s holidays and to plan how you can improve for next year. What to do now: Check your dashboard to see what kind of site data is available to you. If you’re not seeing the type of performance data you’ll need to refine your site, talk to your host about upgrade options. Be Prepared with Upgraded Hosting Make sure your hard work on holiday products and promotions pays off. Get ready now to welcome holiday season shoppers, give them what they want fast, keep your site safe, and gather valuable data. Give yourself the gift of an upgraded hosting plan now, before the holiday rush begins. Learn more about HostGator’s cloud hosting and dedicated server plans . 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What Is A Fully Qualified Domain Name?

The post What Is A Fully Qualified Domain Name? appeared first on HostGator Blog . What Is A Fully Qualified Domain Name? In the landscape of domain names, there’s a lot going on. We have DNS records, top-level domains, second-level domains, sub-domains, and a lot more. There’s no shortage of confusing terminology that can trip up beginners. Luckily, you don’t need to know all of this to buy a domain name and set up a website . But, still these terms come up and you want to know what they’re all about. One term you’ll come across is Fully Qualified Domain Name , or FQDN. Below we’ll highlight why knowing your FQDN is useful, what it can be used for, and some examples of what it looks like. What Is a Fully Qualified Domain Name? The term Fully Qualified Domain Name is actually pretty literal. Essentially, it’s the complete domain name of a computer, or host, on the Internet. It’s composed of a few different elements. Here’s how it breaks down: [hostname].[domain].[tld]. In some cases a subdomain can also be included as well. Like any other domain name, we read it from right to left. For example, here’s how we break down the Fully Qualified Domain Name, www.hostgator.com .The first part (‘www’) is the host name. The second part ( ‘hostgator’ ) is the domain name. The last part ( ‘com’ ) is the TLD (top-level domain). The final element of a FQDN is the final period at the end. However, almost every browser doesn’t require you enter this period and it’s instead implied by the system. You can try adding a period yourself to the end of any domain, and you’ll see that it doesn’t alter the path of the domain in any way. Interesting, right? You can think of a Fully Qualified Domain Name as an address. The goal of this address is to designate the location within the DNS system. With a FQDN the location of a website, or other online entity has its own unique identifier and location. Below we review a few more examples to help you better understand how a FQDN breaks down.   Examples of a Fully Qualified Domain Name A fully qualified domain name is always written in a specific format. If you’re a Gmail user, then you’ve no doubt seen this one, ‘mail.google.com’. Or, how about this one, ‘en.wikipedia.org’ ? In this case, the host name is ‘en’ , which specifies the English version of the host. It’s funny, but most domain names aren’t technically fully qualified. For example,  ‘amazon.com’ isn’t technically fully qualified because we’re not 100% sure of the host name, even though most browsers assume the host name is ‘www’ .   How Are Fully Qualified Domain Names Used? If you want to make a website, computer, or any device accessible via an Internet network, then you’re going to need an FQDN. However, you’ll also need to interface with the DNS records, so the location of that device, or website, can be found. FQDNs are one of the most essential components of how the Internet and domains are organized. For that reason they have a wide variety of applications, that extend beyond letting your website or device be available to the Internet. But, beyond that one of the most common reasons you’ll need to know your FQDN is for obtaining an SSL certificate . Today, especially with the recent Google shift , an SSL certificate is becoming a necessity. To actually obtain an SSL certificate and secure your site you’re going to need a Fully Qualified Domain Name. Also, if you’re connecting to your host remotely, then you’ll most likely need your FQDN to remotely connect. For example, if you’re connecting over FTP then you’ll need the FQDN or the IP address to access the server.   How Do You Find Your Fully Qualified Domain Name? Locating your FQDN address for your website is easy: just look at the address bar in your browser. You’re probably amazed at the frequency you’ve been interacting with Fully Qualified Domain Names, without even realizing it! But, beyond a website’s domain, both your computer and server have their own unique FQDN as well. Here’s how you locate your machine’s FQDN: For Mac users:  Open up Terminal and type in ‘hostname –f’ . This will return your FQDN. For Windows users:  You can find your FQDN within your system settings. First navigate to your ‘Control Panel’ and locate ‘System and Security’ . From here select ‘System’ and you’ll find your FQDN listed on this screen.   What is a Partially Qualified Domain Name? Another term you might have come across is PQDN, or a Partially Qualified Domain Name . This is similar to a FQDN, but the domain isn’t fully specified. Typically, this will refer to a portion of the domain name, but you won’t have every detail to specify it completely. This was mentioned briefly above in the example ‘amazon.com’ . Although the web host will guess the ‘www.’ aspect, it still isn’t fully specified. Typically, a PQDN is used for convenience in very specified contexts, like leaving out the ‘www’ portion. But, it’s important to understand that a FQDN and PQDN aren’t the same thing. With a FQDN you have the entire path of the host, but with a PQDN you only have a small-specified portion that works within a specific context, because the additional host details are contained within the system. Like a web browser intuiting the ‘www ’ portion of a web address.   Have You Located Your FQDN? Hopefully, you have a better understanding of what a Fully Qualified Domain Name is and the instances in which they’re used. When you create a domain name, or transfer it to a new host , you’ll want to know how a FQDN works in the bigger picture.   Find the post on the HostGator Blog Continue reading

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