The Web Hosting Blog

Your Site Needs More Power? Get the Optimal Hosting Plan!

Standard shared hosting has great advantages and can accommodate the needs of a vast majority of websites. However, certain shared hosting customers require more resources because:

• their site is getting larger, more popular, has more visitors, gets more requests, etc. Those are great news, but also demands for more server resources.
• their marketing campaigns generate sudden traffic that slow down their sites, which creates a frustrating situation due to loss of traffic.
• they use more and more scripts, modules, [...]

Consolidating your SSL Management with Funio at a Low Cost

You would like to centralize and consolidate the management of your products with Funio since you enjoy our easy-to-use and intuitive management interfaces? In addition, you are noticing our promotions and would like to take advantage of them. However, there are still many months left before your SSL certificate comes to its expiry date, and you would not want to lose the period you have already paid for.

You can now transfer your active SSL certificate from another provider to [...]

Interview with Ben: Funio’s Pen

As a dedicated customer, you most certainly read him without even knowing it. He studied English literature and has a creative soul. Ben, our content manager, talks about what he does best: all the writing on our site, from content and technical writing to bug fixing. Discover the hand that holds Funio’s pen!

To start things off, tell us about how you first heard of Funio ?

I was working with iWeb in the customer service and technical support department for shared [...]

How Funio Powers Chocolat Média’s Business

Do not worry. Funio is not lacking imagination and we are not imitating Android by associating our company to candies. Chocolat Média is a digital agency from Montreal. A few months ago, Pascal Couturier, the founder and current CEO, decided to choose Funio as a service provider. Since then, our products have helped him offer robust solutions to his numerous clients: dentists, tailors, jewelers, real estate brokers, etc. Pascal has also helped us develop our unique offer that we [...]

Funio invests in a social startup: Venture-capital funds are jealous

Entrepreneurship is what everyone is talking about these days. Numerous conferences are taking place, venture capital funds are multiplying and a never-ending amount of start-ups are being launched. Therefore, entrepreneurs have all the good reasons to be extremely busy: reading a book that will teach them how to become creative, attending conferences that will discuss the secrets of search engine optimization and networking during costly events where they are over-charged and left with a single memory: a four figures number [...]

Panelbox Private Infrastructure: Funio’s deadly sins

Your websites tend to be selfish and greedy. Their growth shouldn’t be limited by those sins, and they should be free to be hosted where they can eat up as much as they want, without being judged by anyone. Those guilty pleasures are now possible with Funio’s newest product, introducing something unique to the shared hosting market : Panelbox Private Infrastructure.

Gluttony : A Huge Amount Of Resources!

Your sites [...]

Interview: Chevalier’s Signature on the Funio Hub

Adding a domain name, handling payments and making sure your SSL certificate has been added. If all those actions usually seem boring, it is because they haven’t been exposed to a creative soul. At Funio, we are lucky to have Vincent to add a brushstroke to our products. His Mona Lisa is the Funio Customer Hub. Today, Vincent takes some of his time to entertain us and shed some light on the everyday of a Funio graphic designer.

How did [...]

UQÀM Honours Martin Leclair and Funio Congratulates Tiny Basements

Who am I: small, not very pretty, damp and poorly lighted. Here is another clue: I was, in part, the fertile soil to the unbridled imagination of 2 UQÀM students in the 1990’s. You are correct if you thought it was Eric Chouinard’s basement, a space where, in company of his partner Martin Leclair, iWeb was born.

A Unique Environment

Grounds for the growth of ideas and innovation, the basement is [...]

SSL Certificates for $0.99: Funio Revives A Dollar’s Worth!

In 1960,  you could get your hands on a 6-pack, 12 litres of gas or 20 postal stamps for less than a dollar. With the arrival of summer, Funio is inspired by the good old days where you could get more for your dollar, which is why you can grab, for a measly $0.99, an SSL certificate with a new Funio hosting plan! In addition, you can register a domain name for the same tiny amount of $0.99. Can you [...]

Pimped Up Customer Hub Product Management!

Included in our June Newsletter was a link to a teaser image of the Products section of the Customer Hub like you had never seen before. We could not leave the mystery hang any longer, hence we shortly thereafter launched a new version of this popular section. Our new Products page works with you, by allowing you to view all domain names that are hosted on your hosting plan(s), and what products are (or can be) [...]