Category: Web & Tech

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.

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.

Tech Talk Tuesday – WordPress topics

Each #TechTalkTuesday is designed to expand your understanding of a WordPress topic and give you an opportunity to learn more about what everyone is doing for you behind the scenes!

Careers at BigScoots – UPDATED!

Careers at BigScoots are multifaceted! BigScoots is a completely managed WordPress, Shared, VPS and Dedicated hosting company that specializes in industry leading support and management.

How To: Migrate From SquareSpace to WordPress

The transition from Squarespace to WordPress is a tricky one. At Bigscoots, we go to great lengths to assist with your transition over from Squarespace, and most importantly ensure that your live site remains functioning and uninterrupted throughout the entire transition.

Shared Hosting vs Managed WordPress Hosting

In this article we will discuss the differences between Shared Hosting vs Managed WordPress Hosting. Each WP plan is built on its own dedicated (virtual or physical) environment which allows us to completely optimize your individual WP environment with just your site in mind.

How To: Installing & Setting Up WordPress

At BigScoots we specialize in and we’re best known for building the fastest WordPress hosting environments on the web today. But everyone doesn’t always have a WordPress website for us to super charge, so for those folks, let’s talk about how to get one!