We’ve always felt that well-educated customers are the best customers. Since the web hosting industry is completely overrun with marketing double-speak and technical terms, we wanted to do the unthinkable: explain the hosting industry in simple, easy-to-understand terms. So fire up the French press, grab that third cup of coffee, and take… Read More
For years, conventional webhosting wisdom stated that once your website got too big for shared hosting, you needed to upgrade to a VPS. The logic goes that because you aren’t sharing a VPS with other customers, it must be faster. And because VPSes cost more than shared hosting, web hosts were all… Read More
With all the stories about payment processing breaches and stolen credit card data in the news lately, we wanted to take a moment to talk about how Fresh Roasted Hosting helps keep your payment information safe. We start by keeping our billing & support system on its own secure server in a… Read More
Web host review sites have been around pretty much as long as there have been web hosts to review. And a quick Google search of “top ten web hosts” or “best web hosts” or any variant thereof confirms there’s no shortage of ’em. On the surface, they’re nothing more than a group… Read More
CloudFlare. It’s the subject of many, many emails to our sales inbox from prospective clients. If you’re wondering what CloudFlare is and / or why you should care, read on for the full scoop. Earlier this week, Forbes published a great article explaining– in very easy-to-digest terms — what CloudFlare is and… Read More
Back in the 1990s, when the Internet was just beginning to go mainstream, a group of software developers created a revolutionary program called Apache. Apache was one of the first (and still the most popular) web servers. Put simply, when you visit a web site, your browser asks the web server for… Read More
It’s a pretty big day at Fresh Roasted Hosting: as of today, FRH is officially a certified CloudFlare partner! To help explain how this can supercharge and protect your site, we’ve invited CloudFlare to write and contribute this guest post. Today, hundreds of thousands of websites—ranging from individual blogs to e-commerce sites… Read More
Central PA isn’t exactly a nexus of overflowing bandwidth. We don’t have entire blocks of the region dedicated to datacenter growth. We don’t have a sky-high demand for infrastructure like Silicon Valley. As a result, a lot of local organizations make five very wrong assumptions about co-location in Central PA. Because of… Read More
Over the last ten years or so, shared hosting has gotten a bad rep. Ask anyone whose website has been suspended for “too much CPU usage” or whose site just suddenly went down for no reason, and you’ll probably hear more than a few choice words about their previous web host. A… Read More
“I really regret making this website for my business” – No one, ever. Running a small business is incredibly rewarding. It’s also indescribably exhausting. Between managing finances, hiring staff, acquiring customers, growing the business, and (if you’re lucky) sneaking in the occasional 15 minutes of sleep, small business owners clearly have their… Read More