CreativeRadiance.com Technical Site Details

I've been working in IT professionally since 1995, and I've been working with WordPress for more than 10 years. This page is for anyone interested in what I've used to build and run this website.

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Thanks in advance for your support!

Hosting

This site is currently hosted on SiteGround. I have previously used other hosts, but I've found that SiteGround delivers the best bang for the buck reliably, and they have awesome support!

My other recommendation for hosting is Kinsta. Kinsta is truly the best managed WordPress hosting I've ever used, and I've used quite a few hosts both professionally and personally. Kinsta's hosting runs on the Google Cloud Platform exclusively, so you know it's reliable, secure, and powerful.

For me, using Kinsta has made supporting over 100 sites easy-peasy. Support response is always fast, friendly, and super-knowledgeable.

Whether you're just starting out with a new site or blog, or you need rock-solid WooCommerce hosting or, enterprise-level hosting, you can't go wrong with Kinsta.

Hosts I would recommend avoiding (from personal experience) are GoDaddy and HostGator. They're not just inexpensive, they're cheap. You get what you pay for. Nuff said.

If you really must use cheap hosting, at least do yourself a favor and keep a current local backup of your site, at least then if things go sideways you won't lose hours or months of work. And migrate to quality hosting as soon as you possibly can.

CMS, Theme, Page Builder

CMS: This site is powered by WordPress.

Page Builder, Theme, and Customization: This site was built with the Beaver Builder theme and child theme, page builder plugin, and Beaver Themer customizer, all are available from The Beaver Builder Team.

All their stuff is top-notch, I wouldn't use anything else!!!

Backup/Restore/Clone

UpdraftPlus: the world’s most trusted WordPress backup, restore and clone plugin.
I've been using UpdraftPlus personally and professionally for YEARS. Backup automatically to Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. Hands-down, the best backup solution for WordPress.