Dear BCH Family – It is with such mixed emotions that I write you today with very big news. While I’ve been largely absent from the support side of things for over a year now, I’ve never stopped working on BCH at large: This company has been …
Hello, Black Chicken Host Family! Holy cow, folks – we’ve been working on some supercool things behind the scenes, and we’ve been gradually rolling them out over the past two months. Now that we’ve gotten everything running smoothly, I’m ready to tell everyone what we’ve …
The Truth About Web Hosts and Email I’ll get right to the point: Hosting email is the bane of the web host’s existence. Providing email services on a server that is also hosting web pages introduces a lot of complexities into server administration, and, as …
The nature of technology is growth and change – what’s super-hot and super-fast one minute is obsolete and out-of-date the next. It’s a perpetual learning curve for people who want to stay on the latest and greatest hardware or software platforms, and a constant source …
We have some pretty snazzy news to share with you; we’ve added the ability for you to unblock your own IP address from the firewall! Most of us have at one time or another entered an incorrect password one too many times, or have run afoul …
WordPress is a very popular website platform used by many of our customers at BCH. A common request is adding a menu item that quickly pulls all of the posts that are related to a single subject. The easiest way to do this is with …
Most of our customers never log into their cPanel account; they are completely happy to work within their WordPress Dashboards and never worry about what else might be available. This is, of course, completely fine; however, there are many things inside cPanel that might be …
From time to time, you may get an email from your server that says you’re approaching your bandwidth limit for the month – what is that? In a nutshell, “bandwidth” is the volume of data being sent from your server out to the internet. Some elements, …
We get many questions about when the “right time” is to upgrade to a VPS (Virtual Private Server.) There are many cases when a VPS may be better than a shared server, and when the time is right for you and your site is will …
Black Chicken Host has partnered with CloudFlare CDN to bring you better load times and increased security at no cost to you. What CloudFlare is: CloudFlare is a simple and free Content Delivery Network which places your website’s content closer to your readers all around the …