Our Blog

Website World is made in New Zealand. Learn more about our story by reading our blog.

  • When you go on holiday, who manages your website orders? Do you tell your customers that you’re heading away, so they better buy now? Or do you take your website offline for the holidays? If you’re now wondering, can I even do that, stop. Today we’re going to discuss how to manage your website when you take a holiday.
    Posted: Tuesday 30 January 2024
  • Learn more about how Website World provides environmental web hosting, including the choices we have made to achieve a net zero carbon footprint.
    Posted: Wednesday 29 June 2022
  • Discover more about green web hosting, why web hosts choose to go green and how your website can be hosted by a green web host.
    Posted: Wednesday 29 June 2022
  • Learn what DNS is and how it works to understand more about how the internet operates.
    Posted: Friday 22 January 2021
  • Wanting to know what you need to do in order to prepare your website for the holidays? We list the steps to take to help you manage your eCommerce store during this time.
    Posted: Tuesday 10 November 2020
  • We're excited to celebrate 20 years in business and we're taking a trip down memory lane to see just what has happened to Website World since 2020.
    Posted: Tuesday 25 August 2020
  • The Art of Fast Websites
    Learn the tricks we use to make our websites super fast, faster than any famous CDN provider around the world.
    Posted: Monday 15 July 2019
  • Choosing the Best Hosting Plan for Your Business Website
    As a business, you need to ensure your site is online 24/7 and with a super fast loading speed. To achieve this, you need to have selected the right website hosting plan. We walk you through the things you'll need to consider to be able to make that choice.
    Posted: Wednesday 14 November 2018
  • What is Website Hosting?
    Struggling to understand what website hosting is and how it is different from a domain name? We break things down into easy to understand examples for you.
    Posted: Thursday 23 August 2018
  • Tips On Reducing Your Hosting Costs
    Learn how to better manage and reduce your hosting costs, email and domain fees. We share 5 ideas to get you started!
    Posted: Friday 1 June 2018
  • How to Make a Website Load Faster
    Is your website going slow? Learn how to speed your website up so that you don't lose visitors. The best possible performance you can expect on a website, is to load in less than 2 seconds. If your page takes longer than 2 seconds, then you have a problem. We'll share with you easy ways in which you can make your website load faster
    Posted: Saturday 12 May 2018
  • Learn about the retirement of our free DNS service. Free DNS is provided for all websites and email accounts hosted with Website World, however customers will need to purchase a DNS hosting account if they want to have an email or web hosting service located elsewhere.
    Posted: Thursday 26 October 2017
  • Keeping personal and payment information secure is valued highly by online shoppers. As website owners, you can control what you do with the information once you receive it. But unless your website has a SSL or Secure Sockets Layer certificate, the journey their data takes to get to you is unsecure.
    Posted: Monday 16 January 2017
  • Changing all our websites to SSL is not as straightforward as we hoped. Many websites include custom styles, scripts, iframes etc, that are not secure... Manual updates may be required to many websites to gain SSL status.
    Posted: Tuesday 8 November 2016
  • We often get asked why we charge a setup fee for configuring DNS services for a third party web hosting service. And this is why. It's like taking your own food into a cafe, buying a coffee,
    then asking the cafe to heat up your food.
    Posted: Thursday 3 March 2016
  • Sometimes the technical jargon confuses, so i'll use some simpler terms today.
    Posted: Friday 24 April 2015