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Setting up a successful spam filter for your inbox is a two-part process. Let’s get to it! Part One: Setting up Spam Filtering 1. Once in your cPanel

One of our most popular requests is assisting in identifying where disk space allowance is going. But did you know you have the tools right in your cP

Whether you’re a seasoned blogger or just getting your site off the ground and going crazy with uploads and creating content, it’s always a good idea

The Evil of Email Forwarders When an email forwarder is created, all email is forwarded to that address. Bills, invoices, Twitter notifications, those

Secure WordPress Practices With WordPress, one of the easiest tasks to complete is to harden your site but it’s one of the most overlooked tasks! In t

We have all heard the horror stories, and indeed, some of us have lived them ourselves – my hard drive failed, and I lost everything. Backups are so v

If you were part of our beta testing this past summer, you already know the wonders that is our BCH Managed WP Service. Let us help you manage those m

New and Improved PHP The long-awaited next version of PHP, version 7.0, was released at the end of 2015 and has been since receiving regular updates.

It’s been a minute since we hosted our last Affiliate Referral Contest (in 2012 to be exact, yikes!) and we thought it was time for another one! We ho

What is GDPR? The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance deadline of 5/25/2018 is swiftly approaching. If you’re not familiar with GDPR,

What bandwidth is and what bandwidth isn’t. Run out of or getting close to your bandwidth limit for the month but Google Analytics doesn’t show much t

New labeling for HTTP sites Starting in July 2018, Google Chrome will be marking all http sites as “Not secure”, something you may have already seen o

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 th

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 th

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

The nature of technology is growth and change – what’s super-hot and super-fast one minute is obsolete and out-of-date the next.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 lear

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

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 th

Most of our customers never log into their cPanel account; they are completely happy to work within their WordPress Dashboards and never worry about w

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

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