Tips and tricks by Brian Shim for web developers, bloggers, and WordPress users
After changing the URL of on of my client’s sites on Siteground, I wanted to make a backup. When I went to Security -> Backups -> Create New Backup in the Siteground control panel, I got this error message: The help docs didn’t really help, so I got on chat with Siteground and got the … Read more
Through my clients, I have encountered tons of web hosting services. Some are great, while many are awful. Based on my experience as a full-time web developer, these are the web hosting services that I use and recommend: Low-Cost Web Hosting (For Budget Users) For my clients with very low budgets, i.e., hobbyist sites, personal … Read more
If you are getting a “502 Bad Gateway” blue screen of death on Siteground, and your site is a WordPress site, and it is not going away by itself, here’s how to fix it. The error message claims it’s a temporary error, but when it happened to me, I waited an hour and a half … Read more
Siteground is my “go-to” hosting provider for my clients. Their servers are reliable and fast, by shared hosting standards. But, I had one site on Siteground that gave s a “500 Internal Server Error” every few months when I tried to log into the admin of a client’s WordPress site. Or, sometimes I could log … Read more
It’s not commonly known, but it’s super easy to move a website hosted on SiteGround to another SiteGround account. You do not need to do a traditional migration of files and the database! If your DNS is at SiteGround, it takes only a few clicks in fact! If your DNS isn’t at SiteGround, you should … Read more