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One of our biggest first world problems is a slow loading page. Not even 10 years ago, we would wait 20 to 30 seconds for a website to load, and that’s if you had a good dial up connection. Nowadays, 40 percent of people will abandon a site if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load. Each delayed second causes a 7% decrease in your conversion rate, so money is being lost literally by the second.

Your first contact with your future customer is site arrival. Sure you might have top-notch content and a beautiful page, but it means nothing if the site doesn’t load properly or on time. Speed is not just important, it’s essential. Here’s some helpful tips, plug-ins and websites you must be aware of to have a lightning fast Wordpress page.

World Backup Day is March 31st, and this is significant because that’s the day before April Fools Day. If you don’t back up your files and data, you end up looking foolish. This is a task we should all be doing on the regular, but we either neglect it or don’t understand the importance. All of your photos, videos, music, and files are just a hard drive crash away from vanishing into thin air. That being said, your web hosting space is definitely NOT the place for your own personal backup and here’s why.

On Thursday September 20^th, 2012 HostDime attended and helped sponsor the Nap Ford Community School’s fundraiser event at Ember nightclub in Orlando.  The event kicked off with a great musical set by Cornbread Blues followed by an amazing performance by CeCe Teneal and Soul Kamotion.

Most of your consumers will be easy to work with, pay their bills on time, and provide you very little hassle. But there are always those troublemakers who will make your life unpleasant and will refuse to pay for your services. In the movies, you’d just call one of your shady connections who’s handy with a baseball bat. But this is real life, and neither of us are gangsters, so here’s a helpful guide to deal with these slow and non-paying clients in a professional manner.

The HostDime crew was out in spades this week at iSummit 2012 in beautiful Orlando, Florida. iSummit brings together digital leaders to discuss emerging trends and intriguing strategies for interactive technologies. The goal is to find new business and make lasting contacts. HostDime was a fortunate sponsor who enjoyed the company of hundreds of entrepreneurs, marketers, developers, investors, executives, and strategists from all corners of the technological world. Be sure to check out over 60 photos from the iSummit event at our Facebook.

Much of the convention’s focus was on consumer driven social business. Panels included internet business, content strategies, marketing and development, online brand engagement, user experience, and other helping social media specific topics. It was certainly a wonderful opportunity to network with hungry in the booming digital economy.

Seeing as this was a social media event, let’s have a look at some of the online chatter from the event courtesy of Twitter. Kudos to the following 10 creative and engaging Tweeters for live-blogging panels, dropping valuable tidbits, providing helpful links, and getting their own brand out there. Hopefully this will give you a good idea of iSummit 2012 and multiple reasons to not miss iSummit 2013.

Do you think you have what it takes to become a web hosting reseller and make some quick income? Well the process might be easier than you think thanks to Web Host Manager Complete Solution (WHMCS). With HostDime, you get a free copy with your reseller, VPS or dedicated hosting package. WHMCS is a client management, billing, and support software portal for online web hosts. It allows clients to sign up for various packages and register unlimited domains without any work on your part. Once you approve a new signup in cPanel, WHMCS will instantly supply those new accounts on your server and you can view each client in-depth.