What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is a content delivery network or CDN. A CDN is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and data centers. These provide performance and distribution of website data to users in any location reducing bottlenecks of the internet. At
How to Configure Magento 2 Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is an open sourced search engine providing websites with a smarter search interface. It is the most popular enterprise search engine in the industry and is used by companies worldwide. Elasticsearch provides scalable, real-time search that quickly indexes a
Web Hosting Buyers Guide
Despite what your momma or teacher told you there are definitely bad questions. Questions can be good things and you should definitely be asking them before choosing your next web hosting company. We’ve outlined good and bad questions to ask
How to Install and Set Up Elasticsearch on WordPress
At Alpha Hosting, we know that Elasticsearch is extremely important to your ecommerce site. One of the key features of any ecommerce website is site search. This allows visitors to come to your site and search for exactly what they
Prepare for 2021 with Web Week
December 25 through December 31 has recently become known as, “Web Week.” This is a week where the majority of businesses see low traffic on their sites. Many businesses are using these days to test and update their sites for
How to Install Redis with WooCommerce
Redis is a memory based caching system built to maintain your site speed as your traffic increases. With how heavy some web applications are these days, Redis is available to store cached elements to memory for fast access. Redis is
How to Install Redis with Magento 2
Redis stands for REmote DIctionary Server. It stores a site's full data sets by writing data to a file system every 2 seconds. This constant caching provides a system that gives users quick access to memory. Redis is used by
What Are PHP Workers?
Everyone seems to be talking about the importance of PHP workers, but what are they exactly? Throughout this post, we will explain what PHP workers are, how they influence your site’s performance, and how to determine how many your site
Inside Alpha Hosting’s Tech Stack
At Alpha Hosting we work to build an environment that allows businesses to thrive. To do this, we make sure our technologies and infrastructures are industry leading. Throughout this post we will explore all these technologies, explaining what they are
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best way to decide which package is right for my website? There are two main factors you should look at when choosing a hosting package. First, you want to make sure the package you’re choosing has enough storage
Alpha Cloud Hosting
Our goal is to provide simple hosting packages that help launch growth for business. We felt the variety of our offerings, differences in feature sets, and pricing didn’t meet our goal. While complexity might increase your choices, it also increases
Why Your Business Should Be Using Cloud Hosting
What benefits can a hosted cloud offer today's enterprises?