{"id":79,"date":"2020-06-10T21:08:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ent\/?p=79"},"modified":"2020-06-10T21:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:08:56","slug":"web-hosting-freelancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/entity\/web-hosting-freelancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Get help with web hosting &#8211; Hire online freelancers in Kenya on Niabusiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever thought about <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">hiring a freelancer<\/a> for your web hosting needs? Or even wondered what aspects of web hosting could be outsourced successfully to online freelancers?<\/p>\n<p>In this article I am going to show you some of the tasks you can take off your plate &#8211; with the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">Kenyan freelancers on Niabusiness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>SSL &#8211; Adding an SSL certificate<\/h2>\n<p>To secure the connection between your users devices (feature phones, smartphones, tablets, laptops or desktop computers) and your website (blog), you can <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">hire a freelancer on Niabusiness<\/a> to do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>install an SSL certificate right before you launch your site, but just immediately after registering a domain name and purchasing a hosting plan.<\/li>\n<li>install a free SSL certificate (Let&#8217;s Encrypt \/ AutoSSL).<\/li>\n<li>upgrade from a free SSL certificate to a premium certificate you buy for at least one year.<\/li>\n<li>ensure all your URLs with http redirect to the https version, so your site doesn&#8217;t get in trouble for duplicate links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Server management (dedicated \/ VPS)<\/h2>\n<p>If your site gets a lot of traffic and you have moved to a virtual private server or a dedicated server and are not comfortable managing the servers on your own, you can hire someone to help you with the management bit.<\/p>\n<p>You may find such a service appealing especially if you are not paying for servers with management as an option (Managed Dedicated Servers, Managed WordPress Hosting etc.)<\/p>\n<p>You can also hire somebody to help you change servers, from your current one, to another with more features.<\/p>\n<h2>cPanel help<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">Get a freelancer<\/a> to help you with the different features available in your cPanel account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">Hire a freelancer<\/a> to help you with file permissions, MySQL database, email, subdomains, add-on domains, script installations (using Softaculous or Quick Installer), subfolders and more.<\/p>\n<h2>Amazon AWS \/ S3 file storage<\/h2>\n<p>Hire someone to help you move all the media available to your site audience to Amazon Web Services to save on bandwidth and disk quota.<\/p>\n<p>A freelancer able to help you with the above can also integrate your blog or website with services like KeyCDN, MaxCDN or Cloudflare so that you don&#8217;t end up paying a fortune on hosting each month.<\/p>\n<h2>CMS switch &#8211; changing content management systems<\/h2>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">hire a freelancer on Niabusiness.com<\/a> to help you change the software you use to run your blog or website.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not willing to do all the work yourself, outsourcing can still get you the results you desire.<\/p>\n<p>Get someone to help you move from WordPress.com to WordPress self hosted.<\/p>\n<p>Hire someone to help you move from Wix, Squarespace, Joomla or Drupal to WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>If there is another CMS you have in mind, you can simply <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/place-ad\/\">place an ad on Niabusiness<\/a> sharing details about the tasks you want to accomplish.<\/p>\n<h2>FTP &#8211; Managing files via Filezilla and similar apps<\/h2>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">hire a freelancer<\/a> to help you manage your site via FTP.<\/p>\n<p>Using Filezilla and similar software, a freelancer you hire can change file permissions, upload content to your site, download content from your site, edit code in your themes, plugins and extensions.<\/p>\n<p>If an area of your site experiences an error, and you think making tweaks via FTP is the right way to go about fixing the problem but you just don&#8217;t have the time to do it all yourself, <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">hire somebody on Niabusiness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>File Manager<\/h2>\n<p>Again there is a lot freelancers that can help you with via the File Manager in your cPanel dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>For example add or delete files, edit files and code (such A the htaccess file), disable and try to debug themes and plugins whenever your site experiences errors.<\/p>\n<p>They can upload files to your site without going through your site&#8217;s CMS admin area<\/p>\n<p>If you use affiliate links (and have them all organized in a folder in the public_html area) they can go in and add new ones, change old links or delete links that no longer work.<\/p>\n<h2>Site and server security<\/h2>\n<p>There are people good with tightening security of servers (especially if you are using dedicated servers).<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for them, for opportunities to increase your server security, <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/place-ad\/\">place an ad on Niabusiness<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/browse-ads\/\">look up the listings<\/a> already posted in the various categories touching on websites.<\/p>\n<h2>Moving sites \/ site migration \/ domain transfers<\/h2>\n<p>If you are switching hosts and want to do it with minimal downtime, but just don&#8217;t know how to go about it, <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">hire freelancers<\/a> on the site to help you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>backup your site before migration (keeping different copies of the site in separate locations)<\/li>\n<li>move files to your new hosting company (e.g. Sasahost, Truehost, Lenasi, Kenya Web Experts, Safaricom, Oracom, Garanntor, Bluehost, HostGator or Siteground)<\/li>\n<li>change nameservers<\/li>\n<li>test if everything is working the way it is supposed to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to change domain registrar&#8217;s, go from say IONOS \/ GoDaddy to Namesilo \/ Namecheap, there are people here on <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">Niabusiness.com<\/a> that can help you with that as well.<\/p>\n<h2>Website backup services<\/h2>\n<p>It is really important to backup your blog or website on a regular basis. But most webmasters often forget about this critical aspect of managing a site.<\/p>\n<p>If you often forget about making backups of your site, and are okay <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">outsourcing such tasks to freelancers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">check the listings on the site&#8217;s homepage to find contractors<\/a> that can help you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>take advantage of free backup services if you don&#8217;t want to pay your hosting company an additional fee every month to automatically backup your site&#8217;s files.<\/li>\n<li>backup your blog and website&#8217;s files to services such as Dropbox, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Drive.<\/li>\n<li>backup your site using the script installer in your cPanel account (such as Softaculous).<\/li>\n<li>create backup files of your website that you can store offline on your smartphone, flash drive, laptop or desktop computer.<\/li>\n<li>restore your backup files to your site in case you get hacked or someone \/ something infects your site&#8217;s files with malware.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In general, you can use the many <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">freelance services<\/a> advertised on <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">Niabusiness<\/a> to ensure you get the most out of the hosting plan you purchase for your blog or website.<\/p>\n<p>If all you need is just someone to talk to about Linux shared hosting, VPS hosting, cloud hosting, WordPress hosting, Windows hosting, reseller hosting, e-commerce hosting, WooCommerce hosting, managed hosting, OpenCart hosting or dedicated servers, there are freelancers on the site ready to do consultations at reasonable fees. <a href=\"https:\/\/niabusiness.com\/ads\/\">Check the listings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever thought about hiring a freelancer for your web hosting needs? 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