Web Developer Resources by Brian Shim — WordPress, Divi, accessibility, hosting, troubleshooting
Siteground is the “go to” website hosting service for most of my clients. I highly recommend them for small and medium-sized business websites!
I think most web developers dread email migrations (or flat out refuse to do them) because we don’t do them often enough to get good at doing them, and the end result doesn’t seem like something super exciting that you can charge a premium for. I had a situation where I was asked to migrate … Read more
After completely blocking AI bot access to all sites on their shared hosting in August 2025, SiteGround relented and announced that they would allow AI bots “that are used in chat sessions”, while still blocking AI training bots. Read about it here. What that means is that now, if you explicitly ask Chat GPT to … Read more
After changing the URL of on of my client’s sites on Siteground, I wanted to make a backup. When I went to Security -> Backups -> Create New Backup in the Siteground control panel, I got this error message: The help docs didn’t really help, so I got on chat with Siteground and got the … Read more
Through my clients, I have encountered tons of web hosting services. Some are great, while many are awful. Based on my experience as a full-time web developer, these are the web hosting services that I use and recommend: Best Shared Web Hosting (Great for Most Businesses and Organizations) I use SiteGround shared hosting for the … Read more
If you are getting a “502 Bad Gateway” blue screen of death on Siteground, and your site is a WordPress site, and it is not going away by itself, here’s how to fix it. The error message claims it’s a temporary error, but when it happened to me, I waited an hour and a half … Read more
Siteground is my “go-to” hosting provider for my clients. Their servers are reliable and fast, by shared hosting standards. But, I had one site on Siteground that gave s a “500 Internal Server Error” every few months when I tried to log into the admin of a client’s WordPress site. Or, sometimes I could log … Read more
It’s not commonly known, but it’s super easy to move a website hosted on SiteGround to another SiteGround account. You do not need to do a traditional migration of files and the database! If your DNS is at SiteGround, it takes only a few clicks in fact! If your DNS isn’t at SiteGround, you should … Read more