Author: Katie

How To: Migrate From Squarespace to WordPress with BigScoots

Unfortunately, it is impossible for a migration from Squarespace to WordPress to include the specific theme files, plugins, or customizations. The only elements we can move are the ones that are exclusively yours, which is your content (i.e. posts, media files, etc.). So, how does BigScoots make it work?

Most Frequently Asked Questions About BigScoots

Our goal as your soon-to-be hosting provider is to cement ourselves as your technical partner, which starts by being transparent and by doing our best to provide a completely stress-free on-boarding experience. To help make your transition easier, we have compiled a list of our most frequently asked questions.

Why Doesn’t BigScoots Do Black Friday?

If you’ve reached this page, it probably means that Black Friday and Cyber Monday is right around the corner and you’re looking to strike up some great deals on a BigScoots Managed WordPress, VPS, shared, reseller or dedicated hosting service.

How To: Improve Website Security

We go to great lengths to provide you with enhanced website security features at BigScoots by deploying enhanced brute force protection, a custom firewall solution, spam filtering, malware scanning, network wide DDoS protection, among many other practices.

How To: Remove Dates From Permalinks in WordPress

As you may know, WordPress automatically generates a permalink for each of your posts and by default, uses the date option. In many cases, site owners will choose to remove the dates from their permalinks and change the structure to the designated posts name, category, keyword, etc.

How To: Recognize and Avoid Phishing Attacks

Unfortunately there is no way to keep yourself entirely safe from phishing attacks. They are inevitably going to occur however, there are a few precautions you can take to keep yourself safe from these attacks.

BigScoots Network Upgrade: Yesterday, Today and What’s Ahead!

For over eleven years, BigScoots has completely owned and operated all of our own server and networking infrastructure. Doing so has enabled us to create a managed hosting service that has always provided considerably more server and networking resources to our clients’ websites.