Ian oversees Web60's hosting infrastructure and operations. Responsible for the uptime, security, and performance of every site on the platform, he writes about the operational reality of keeping Irish business websites fast, secure, and online around the clock.
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SSL certificates are dropping to a 47-day lifespan by 2029, with the first cut in March 2026. Here is what changes, and why renewal should never be your job.
Google ranks websites based on their mobile version. If your mobile site underperforms, your rankings suffer. Here's what Irish business owners need to check.
Great uptime means nothing the day your WordPress site breaks and nobody answers. Why real, in-house hosting support beats an outsourced ticket queue.
Every hosting provider claims GDPR compliance. For Irish businesses, the reality is more nuanced, and the gap between the label and the law could expose you.
WordPress 7.0 shipped the Abilities API on 20 May 2026. Every plugin on your site can now use your AI keys. Here is what an operator does about that.
WordPress sites slow down because the database quietly bloats: autoload, post revisions, and orphaned transients. Here is what is actually happening and how to fix it.
Most slow WordPress sites are not slow because of the host or the plugins. They are slow because of the phone photos the owner uploaded straight to the site.
Cloudflare's Perplexity report showed AI scrapers ignoring robots.txt at scale. The question every WordPress owner should ask their hosting provider instead.
A stage-by-stage look at what happens in the first hour after a WordPress site goes down, from detection to recovery, and what most hosting providers miss.
INP replaced FID as a Google ranking signal in 2024. Most WordPress business sites still fail it. Here is what that means for your rankings in 2026.
Most WordPress hosts answer tickets. Few run real operations. The difference shows at 2am when your site is down and a ticket queue cannot help.
Most WordPress hosts sell backups. The metric that decides whether your business survives a crash is restore time. Here's what that looks like.
Your website has the padlock. That does not make it secure. Here is what SSL actually does, where it stops, and what real WordPress security requires.
Google's AI search has fundamentally changed what determines local business visibility. Your website now carries more weight than your Google Business Profile.
From nightly backups to fail2ban blocking, your managed WordPress hosting works 24/7. Every automated layer explained, from intrusion prevention to SSL renewal.
Many providers advertise 'Irish hosting' but route data through US-owned data centres or foreign servers. Three quick checks reveal where your site truly lives.
Most small business WordPress sites have no staging environment. That is exactly why plugin updates and quick edits keep breaking them. Here is why it matters.
WordPress brute force login attacks hammer small business sites every hour, often unnoticed. Here is what they look like and what stops them.
Your host guarantees 99.9% website uptime. That is over 8 hours of permissible downtime a year. Here is what the SLA covers and quietly hides.
AI bots now make up half of all web traffic. Here is what GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Googlebot are quietly costing your business hosting plan in 2026.
Most WordPress compromises are engineered to stay hidden. Here is why your site can look completely normal while it hosts malware, spam, and a rogue admin.
Most small businesses have no website disaster recovery plan. Here is what happens when hosting goes wrong, and what a proper recovery setup looks like.
How Nginx, Redis, and FastCGI caching work together to keep your WordPress site fast. The full performance stack explained for business owners.
Hackers hijacked 250+ small business websites to spread malware in 2026. Learn why small sites are preferred targets and how managed hosting protects yours.
Google's March 2026 update now scores Core Web Vitals across your entire site, not page by page. A few slow pages can drag rankings down for your whole domain.
A routine plugin update killed a live checkout. Learn why every WordPress site needs a staging environment to test changes before they reach your customers.
Learn how managed WordPress hosting protects your small business site with server-level hardening, automatic backups, SSL, and malware scanning, all included.
99.9% uptime sounds bulletproof, but it allows nearly 9 hours of downtime per year. Learn what hosting SLAs actually guarantee and what to ask instead.
Patchstack's 2026 WordPress security report reveals plugin vulnerabilities jumped 42% year on year. What the numbers mean for your business and your hosting.
Google's March 2026 core update is shifting rankings right now. What it means for Irish business websites and why your hosting stack matters.
