Make Backups a Habit!

One of the most painful aspects of web hosting is the number clients who don't make regular backups of their own sites. If you are relying strictly on your most recent updates being available on your hosting plan's server - than you are doing yourself a disservice and setting yourself up for potential disaster!

Backups are the most important thing you should know about after purchasing your Powered By Fish hosting plan and launching your website. You never know what can happen to a server. Machines can fail. In fact, at some point every machine does - no matter how good your hosting provider is!

Having a current and complete backup of your website is the only way to ensure you can be quickly back up and running after a potential issue.

Your backup files themselves should be stored off-site - in a remote location. Your backup doesn't do you any good if it's stored on the same server that just crashed!

We urge you to find a process, service or method that works well and is easy for you to perform. Make it a regular habit to backup your site and the databases that are associated with your site. Contact us today and we can help guide your through the best way to make backups quickly and as painless as possible.

Don't have the time to hassle with backups? Check out our partner company Grow Fish Design. They offer full-service maintenance plans to fit any budget that include technical support, regular backups, website updates and more.

Don't think you are immune to data loss! You won't know the true agony of data loss until you experience it.

Learn How to Attract More Visitors to Your Site

Business owners often ask how much traffic their website should be getting. The truth is there is no simple answer to this question. For example, if you run a small store in North Carolina, it would not be useful to compare your traffic to Amazon. Equally, there is a distinction between the traffic levels you could expect to receive on a Business-to-Business (B2B) website as opposed to those on a Business-to-Consumer (B2C) website.

The goal of any business should not be to hit a specified traffic target. The most crucial goal is to always strive for more traffic, as long as it's the right traffic. More qualified visitors means more conversions and, ultimately, more customers for your business.

Often, a business will concentrate on search engine optimization (SEO) as a major source of traffic. By optimizing a website to fit a certain keyword, webmasters think they can trick Google, Yahoo, and Bing into giving them preferential search ranks.

However, search traffic must ultimately come as the result of an "organic" process. By creating the best website in your industry with naturally occurring keywords, you will increase your search engine traffic and get more hits from links and leads - the organic way.

After all, there is little value in generating traffic if you do not work hard to convert that traffic into customers. Implement highly interactive content to encourage return visits, and with each returning visitor, you have another chance to convert them into a customer.

As your traffic grows, you can be assured that our Powered By Fish shared hosting plans can handle the increasing resource demand. You can easily upgrade from our Basic, to Pro to Unlimited plans with ease.

Get to Know Your Client Portal

Your Client Portal is the central location for you to manage your Powered By Fish hosting account, domain name, SSL certificates and more.

Logging in to your Client Portal is easy! Just visit our homepage and enter your login details under the Client Login section on the right side of the homepage.

If it's your first time visiting your Client Portal or if you've forgotten your login information, you can easily reset your password.

Once you're logged in, you can order new services, renew services and access invoices to submit online payments by PayPal (or any major credit card). Other important tasks you can complete include checking server status, domain name lookups, submit and manage your support tickets, plus access your service control panels to make any changes to your account and features (cPanel, for example).

Take a few minutes and check out your powerful Client Portal today.