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WordPress Security in 2026: Why Updating Plugins Alone Is No Longer Enough
Updating WordPress matters, but a fix may not exist when a vulnerability becomes known. Learn how virtual patching, safe updates, monitoring and recovery fit into a layered security plan.
Why Your Business Email Deserves More Than Shared Web Hosting
Your website and business email perform two different jobs. See why moving important mail to specialist infrastructure can improve separation, security, backup and management.
Take the Day-to-Day Worry Out of Managing WordPress
Keeping WordPress secure and up to date takes more than clicking an update button. See how BWF brings WP Umbrella, Patchstack, Monarx and additional backups together in one managed service.
Why our Web Hosting is ideal for your WordPress websites?
Choosing the right technology stack is crucial for performance, reliability and scalability. At Big Wet Fish Hosting we believe we have the perfect solution. By combining the Enhance Panel with OpenLiteSpeed, Docker and Redis object caching on brand new AMD EPYC hardware with NVMe storage arrays, we deliver a powerful platform for modern web applications,…
Big Wet Fish: Making Waves with a Brand New Look and Website!
We’re super excited to share the launch of our new Big Wet Fish branding and website today! As the UK & Ireland's Best Web Hosting provider, we have always strived to offer an unparalleled web hosting experience to our valued clients. Now, with our colourful new brand identity and fresh website design by our friends…
NEW Modern Web Hosting Stack from Big Wet Fish Hosting
Challenge us to Speed up your Website...We've been working hard these past number of months at implementing a new and modern server architecture with a modern control panel that we are getting some amazing performance out of. It's ideal for WordPress and the performance we have been seeing is pretty decent out of the box…
A comparison between cPanel and Direct Admin
What is the best web control panel for me?At Big Wet Fish we used to recommend cPanel exclusively as our hosting control panel partner of choice. cPanel was acquired by a venture capitalist company back in 2019 and raised their prices significantly. We still love cPanel as a product and if you can afford it…
Why you should invest in continuous backups for your eCommerce Website
We provide managed backups with every hosting package we sell where we take at minimum on our cheapest plan one daily, one weekly and one monthly backup in what is known as ‘Time Stamped Backups’. Consider this scenario. You run a busy eCommerce website and have our standard time stamped backups. Your daily backup completes…
Some tips to speed up a WordPress Website
WordPress is one of the most popular platforms for building and hosting a small buisiness website and ahigh percentage of websites hosting on our platform would be developed in WordPress. We want you tohave the best hosting experience possible so if you need our team to work with you to analyse your website and help…
Some tips to help secure your WordPress Website
WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) in the world, making it a prime target for hackers and malware. We do our best server side to keep malware out and we use a WebApplication Firewall to deflect known WordPress attacks from gaining entry to your WordPress Application. We also run regular…
