#Wordpress Hosting South Africa

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Blxckie is the featured artist for December’s Apple Music Rap Life Africa

The episode features new music from Blxckie, all the breaking hip hop news, and the hottest tracks of the week from around Africa! Tune in to Rap Life Radio With Ebro now on Apple Music 1 Apple Music’s Rap Life Radio, presented by Global Editorial Head of Hip-Hop and R&B, Ebro Darden will feature South African rapper and songwriter, Blxckie on this week’s episode. Ebro and Africa Now Radio host,…

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South Africa says it ‘constructively engages’ with Russia and Ukraine

Cyril Ramaphosa made the initial comments about being a Russian ally during a BRICS summit hosted by Vladimir Putin | Photo Credit: AP South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday (October 27, 2024) sought to clarify comments he had made during a summit earlier in the week, insisting that he was not favouring Russia over Ukraine. “In declaring President Putin and the people of Russia as…

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Earth Welcomes a Temporary "Mini-Moon": The Discovery of Asteroid 2024 PT5

For the next couple of months, Earth will play host to a temporary companion known as asteroid 2024 PT5. This small object, measuring approximately 10 metres in diameter, was first detected on August 7 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) stationed in South Africa. After being captured by Earth’s gravitational pull on September 29, 2024 PT5 is expected to remain within the…

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Potter's Home in Oaxaca, Mexico

This strange combination of South African, Asian and American guests must have confused our hosts, a potter family, in Oaxaca, Mexico. But they seemed to enjoy us and adjusted to our needs and questions graciously.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/KPRR2E/chapultepec-park-mexico-city-KPRR2E.jpg It was lovely to meet the Exposure Dialogue Team (EDP) Team again in Oaxaca, Mexico. My EDP companions were Haroon and Laura, a lovely American girl based in Oaxaca and working for a firm called “Sustainable Harvests” in the business of buying coffee from farmers for export to South Africa and other countries. She was…

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Crisis in Sudan

Sudan, which has a long record of generously hosting refugees, used to be home to over 1 million refugees – the second highest refugee population in Africa – mainly from South Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, and Ethiopia, as well as the Central African Republic, Chad and Yemen. Over the years, outbreaks of violence have also forced people to flee within Sudan, with over 3.7 million people internally…

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HOW TO PLAN YOUR TRIP TO AFRICA ON AFFORDABLE BUDGETS, SPEND LESS, GAIN TOP NOTCH SERVICES & GREAT Experiences. ?

Bypassing Lake Natron to Serengeti national park East Africa, Tanzania & Kenya to South Africa and Zimbabwe. Africa is not expensive if only you meet the right Travel company to host you and an experienced travel agent & advisor to plan/organize your safari Adventure.This is why you should get in contact with a Locally owned travel company in East Africa, Tanzania & Kenya. Our director with…

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9 Ways to Speed Up a WooCommerce Store + The Best Plugin

If your WooCommerce store doesn’t load quickly for visitors, you’re missing out on sales. In fact, your conversion rate can decrease by 7% for every second your site takes to load — that’s a lot of lost customers! 

Focusing on website speed is well worth the effort, but it doesn’t have to be time-consuming or difficult. Let’s take a look at a few ways you can speed up your store.

1. Compress your product images

Images are some of the “heaviest” website files, so they can have a major impact on site speed. The more you compress your images, the faster your pages will load. But, of course, you also don’t want to sacrifice quality. The key is proper image compression and optimization. Here are a few tips:

·         Save images in the correct format. JPEG is usually the way to go!

·         Resize images before uploading them to WordPress.

·         Compress images before uploading them to WordPress.

Want to skip over all these steps? RocketPress CDN handles image optimization for you, so you can be completely hands-off. 

2. Use a content delivery network

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of servers strategically distributed around the world. It takes the strain off of your host by downloading images, videos, and other assets from your site and serving them through its own network.

This is particularly useful for international stores. Let’s say that your website server is located in Seattle, Washington, but you have customers in England, China, and South Africa. Typically, your host would load your site from Seattle, no matter where shoppers are located. But a CDN loads your store from the server that’s closest to each individual customer. This means that everything loads quickly for all visitors, no matter where they’re located.

Content delivery networks are often difficult to set up, but RocketPress offers a WordPress CDN that’s as easy as installing a plugin — plus it’s completely free! While Jetpack isn’t a full site CDN, it handles images, videos, CSS, and static Javascript files — some of the biggest offenders when it comes to site speed. 

3. Implement lazy loading

If a page has a lot of images, a browser typically has to load every single one of them — even those below the visible area on the screen — before a site visitor can view that page. The more images you have, the longer this takes.

Lazy loading speeds things up. With lazy load, images are only loaded when the site visitor scrolls to view them. Customers can view your products and pages a lot faster, and you’ll end up collecting more sales.

RocketPress offers lazy loading images for free and provides a smooth, uninterrupted experience for your customers. It’s one of the best ways to speed up a WooCommerce store’s category and product pages.

4. Speed up your videos

Video files are even heavier than images. By hosting them with a third party — like YouTube or Vimeo — you can take the weight of those files off of your website. But with those third parties come fees, ads, and competing videos that can drive shoppers to other stores. 

But RocketPress VideoPress solves all of those problems. Embed high-speed, high-quality videos in your posts and pages without any ads or third-party branding, using the best video hosting plugin for WordPress. Now, you can share videos of your products in action without having to worry about slowing down your site.

5. Reduce the number of plugins on your website

The more plugins you have installed, the more you need to worry about security breaches, time-consuming maintenance, and decreased performance.

Each time someone visits your site, a request is sent from their browser to your server, then back to their browser. The more active plugins, the more requests, and the more work the browser has to do before the page loads.

So get rid of any plugins you aren’t using and, whenever possible, choose ones that provide multiple features. RocketPress is a great example of this — it offers security, speed, marketing, and design functionality all in one package!

The easiest speed optimization plugin for WordPress

RocketPress Boost gives your site the same performance advantages as the world’s leading websites, no developer required.

Boost your site for free

6. Add caching

Every time someone loads your online store, their browser downloads all of the data from your site, which can take a while. But when you enable caching, their browser will save a copy of your content, so that the next time they visit, your site will load much more quickly.

Many hosting providers offer caching at the server level, but there are also WordPress plugins, like WP Super Cache, that take care of this for you. 

7. Speed up your WooCommerce search functionality

To keep customers happy, you should make it as easy as possible for them to find what they’re looking for. And the more products you have, the more difficult this can be.

RocketPress Search provides everything you need for fast, effective search functionality. It’s both powerful and flexible, displaying highly-relevant results to your shoppers. They can filter by categories, tags, dates, and more, and get real-time, instant results without having to reload the page.

8. Consider a hosting upgrade

The host that you choose plays a big role in how quickly your site loads. For example, when you create a shared hosting account, the resources that you’re allotted (like memory, bandwidth, and RAM) are divided up between all of the sites on the server. If any of those sites have a sudden surge in traffic, they can use up the remaining resources and, consequently, slow down your store.

Choose a host that limits the number of sites they have on each server. Or consider purchasing a VPS plan or dedicated server, where you have access to more resources. 

Considering a move? RocketPress recommends  RocketPress Backup makes your WordPress migration easy.

9. Update everything

Updating all aspects of your site isn’t just an important security consideration; it’s also critical for WooCommerce speed optimization. Make sure that WordPress core, along with your theme and plugins, are always updated to their latest version. 

To make things easy, you can turn on auto-updates through RocketPress, and you’ll never have to worry about remembering again!

WooCommerce speed optimization can impact sales

Speed is incredibly important for online stores, especially if you attract customers from all over the world. Even the slightest improvement in load time will help you slash bounce rates, boost conversions, and climb the search engine rankings.

But it doesn’t have to be hard. RocketPress provides an entire suite of speed tools that you can activate without the need for complicated code.

Check out all of RocketPress features that speed up your WooCommerce store.

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WordPress Hosting in South Africa - What you need to know - Bizcommunity.com

NewsIndustriesCompaniesJobsEventsPeopleVideoAudioGalleriesMy BizSubmit contentMy AccountAdvertiseSubscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industriesThis article looks at what makes this type of hosting different from other hosting solutions, and touches on the factors that should be considered when selecting a suitable host.WordPress Hosting is tailor-made hosting designed…

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T20 World Cup 2026: Pakistan, New Zealand, Ireland secure automatic qualification despite failing to make it to Super Eight

Pakistan, New Zealand and Ireland secured automatic qualification for the 2026 T20 World Cup, to be held in India and Sri Lanka, despite failing to qualify for the Super Eight stage of the recently concluded T20 World Cup. Hosts India and Sri Lanka took up the first two automatic qualification spots for the 2026 T20 World Cup. Australia, England, South Africa, West Indies, USA, Bangladesh,…

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Heat Up Your Winter With ESPN

ESPN Unveils A Hot Line Up Of Sports To Enjoy This Winter On DSTV On a rather cloudy Saturday morning, ESPN hosted friends, family, media and lovers of sports in Sandton, South Africa as they unveiled a jam packed line up of sports to keep us glued to the screens and away from the cold winter outside. With an array of what we can simply say are interesting sports today, ESPN has you covered…

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Vladmir Putin for creating parallel SWIFT system to break U.S. dollar dominance

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the multi-nation Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) group should explore a SWIFT-like cross-border payments system immune to Western sanctions as well as use national digital currencies in financing investment projects to end U.S. dollar dominance. Ahead of the 16th annual summit of leaders of BRICS to be hosted by Russia, Mr. Putin…

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Nigerian Customs’ Dr Sanusi Saulawa Shines At Africa Border Security Week In Durban

Nigerian Customs’ Dr Sanusi Saulawa Shines At Africa Border Security Week In Durban Assistant Comptroller of Customs Sanusi Tasiu Saulawa, PhD, of the Nigeria Customs Service, presented a paper at the recently concluded Africa Border Security Week held in Durban, South Africa. The event, hosted from June 19-20 at Aha Gateway Hotel, Durban, South Africa, brought together leading experts,…

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Which TV Channel Is Euro 2024 On In Kenya?

The UEFA Euro 2024 enters its second week and a lot of fixtures are scheduled as we get near to the round of 16 stage. Competition hosts Germany are leading in Group A and have already qualified for the knockout stage. Kenyastax.com has a list of which TV channel Euro 2024 is on in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Canada, Australia, India, the USA, and the UK. DORTMUND, GERMANY – JUNE 22: Ronaldo…

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THE FUTURE OF FOOD POWERED BY NESPRESSO

SUSTAINABILITY IS KEY, SAYS ACCLAIMED SA CHEF GREG CZARNECKI “The future of food has to be all about sustainability,” says chef Greg Czarnecki, the acclaimed head chef of Cape Town’s Cape Grace Hotel. Chef Czarnecki was speaking at “The Future of Food, powered by Nespresso” – a two-night gastronomic event hosted by Nespresso South Africa in Cape Town this May, where strategically selected chefs,…

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2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Super Eight stage: How to watch cricket in the US

Monank Patel and the USA cricket team play their tournament co-host, West Indies this Saturday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) The ninth edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup has reached the Super Eight stage. After three weeks of matches, only eight teams remain in the cricket world cup tournament, co-hosted by the USA and West Indies. The remaining teams are the USA, West Indies, South Africa,…

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BOEING TO OPEN AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS IN ETHIOPIA

BOEING TO OPEN AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS IN ETHIOPIA BOEING TO OPEN AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS IN ETHIOPIA US-based global aerospace giant Boeing has announced on Monday that it will open its African headquarters in Ethiopia. The decision puts an end to speculation about South Africa and Kenya being the preferred locations to host the continental branch. The decision also comes after Boeing recently…