dotCanada

Blog

Web hosting tips, tutorials, and insights for Canadian website owners.

Softaculous in cPanel: Installing Apps with One Click
Tips & Tricks

Softaculous in cPanel: Installing Apps with One Click

Softaculous turns a process that used to take hours into a two-minute task. If you need to install WordPress or any other web application, this is the fastest way to do it.

Read more →
Local SEO for Canadian Businesses: How to Get Found in Your City
Small Business

Local SEO for Canadian Businesses: How to Get Found in Your City

When someone in your city searches for what you offer, you want to be one of the first results they see. Local SEO is how you get there - and for most Canadian small businesses, the basics are free and achievable without hiring an agency.

Read more →
How to Disable XML-RPC in WordPress to Block Attacks
Security

How to Disable XML-RPC in WordPress to Block Attacks

XML-RPC is a legacy WordPress feature that most sites do not need - but attackers actively scan for it. Disabling it takes five minutes and removes a meaningful attack surface from your site.

Read more →
How Page Speed Affects Your Google Rankings
Performance

How Page Speed Affects Your Google Rankings

Page speed has been a Google ranking factor since 2010 for desktop and 2018 for mobile. With Core Web Vitals now part of the ranking algorithm, a slow site is directly costing you search visibility.

Read more →
Our Canadian Data Centres: Where Your Website Lives and Why It Matters
dotCanada News

Our Canadian Data Centres: Where Your Website Lives and Why It Matters

Where your website's data is physically stored has real consequences for performance, privacy, and legal compliance. At dotCanada, every website lives in Canada - and we think that matters more than most hosting companies let on.

Read more →
WordPress SEO: Getting Started with Yoast or Rank Math
WordPress

WordPress SEO: Getting Started with Yoast or Rank Math

A good SEO plugin brings search optimization into your everyday WordPress workflow. Both Yoast SEO and Rank Math are excellent - here is what each one does and how to get started.

Read more →
Why Your Emails Land in Spam and How to Fix It
Tips & Tricks

Why Your Emails Land in Spam and How to Fix It

Email deliverability problems can quietly damage your business for months before you realize something is wrong. Fortunately, the most common causes have straightforward fixes.

Read more →
Web Accessibility in Canada: Making Your Site Work for Everyone
Small Business

Web Accessibility in Canada: Making Your Site Work for Everyone

An accessible website works for everyone - including the roughly 6.2 million Canadians living with a disability. Beyond the ethical case, Canadian law increasingly requires accessibility for organizations of all sizes.

Read more →
How to Prevent Your Domain from Expiring and Protect Your Online Presence
Domains

How to Prevent Your Domain from Expiring and Protect Your Online Presence

Domain expiry is one of the most preventable disasters in web hosting - and one of the most damaging. Losing your domain name can mean losing years of SEO work, customer trust, and brand recognition overnight.

Read more →
PreviousPage 10 of 24Next

100% Satisfaction Guarantee

We're so confident you'll love dotCanada that we offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. Not satisfied? Get a full refund, no questions asked.

Ready to Get Started?

Join thousands of Canadian website owners who trust dotCanada for reliable, fast web hosting.

Get Started Today