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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…
What are the Differences between Shared and Private Web Hosting
Shared web hosting and private web hosting are two different types of web hosting services offered by Big Wet Fish. Some examples of our plans are shown below: Business Starter Package – Shared Web HostingThere will be many websites sharing the same CPU, RAM and Disk Capacity. As a general rule thecheaper the shared hosting…
The Importance of Backups and Disaster Recovery Planning
On 10 March 2021 there was a major fire at a large data centre in France and 3.6 million websites being hosted on OVH Cloud were taken offline. BWF does not use this facility but we have had many a conversation with OVH Staff at conferences such as Cloufest and they are good people. No OVH staff…
