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Website Hosting 101 for Beginners

Website Hosting 101 for Beginners

Find out what type of hosting service is best for you! Website hosting refers to the process of storing files on a server that allows people to view those files online. The most popular types of web hosting include shared hosting, dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, and cloud hosting.   If you plan to host multiple websites on a single server, then shared hosting is the…
How to Host a Website

How to Host a Website

How To Host A Website Types of Hosting Not all websites need the same amount of resources. For example, a website with a million daily page views will need more resources, like memory, storage, and processing power, than a website with only a few hundred daily pageviews. Generally, hosting plans differ from each other by the resources they offer, as well as how many total…
Strengthen Your WordPress Site’s Security

Strengthen Your WordPress Site’s Security

Strengthen Your WordPress Site Security WordPress powers a huge chunk of the World Wide Web’s websites, and it’s not hard to see why. With its easy-to-use navigation, it’s easy for anyone to create a website quickly and easily, even beginners. What’s less obvious is website security. How can you make sure that your newly launched website is as safe as can be? 1. Install An SSL…
Should You Buy Multiple Domains For Your Business

Should You Buy Multiple Domains For Your Business

Should You Buy Multiple Domains For Your Business Purchasing more than one domain name is an excellent investment when done sensibly. When done right, owning multiple domain names is synonymous with brand protection and business security. We’ll explain exactly why that is in this blog post.  Yes, You Should Buy Multiple Domain Names Owning more than one domain is a smart business decision. However, that doesn’t…
Where is my website hosting

Where is my website hosting

Where Is My Website Hosting While most companies have a website and see the value in its ever-present availability online those business owners and employees may not know where that website is hosted. Often the agency or third party contracted to build the original website may have purchased the domain and established DNS and hosting on the company’s behalf. Businesses care that they have a…
Best Website Security

Best Website Security

Best Website Security Internet safety is incredibly important, especially on your website. Let’s go over a few tools you can use to inspire engagement and customer loyalty by creating a safe, secure site. 1.Let’s Encrypt – SSL Certificate Secure Sockets Layer certificates (SSL) are small data files that create an encrypted, secure connection between a website host and an individual’s browser. An SSL ensures that any…
What is My IP Address

What is My IP Address

What is my IP Address What is an IP address? IP address means Internet protocol address, and it’s an identifying number assigned to every device you use. Whenever you visit a website or app, your device will automatically search for its IP address before loading. Any device that connects to the Internet has an IP address. Likewise, websites and apps can identify your location through…
What is a Website Security Scan?

What is a Website Security Scan?

What is a Website Scan The web security scan identifies security vulnerabilities in your App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Compute Engine web applications. It crawls your app, keeps track of all the links in the range of your start URLs, and tries to get as much user input and event handlers as possible. Currently, Web Security Scan only supports public URLs and IP addresses that…
Security I should have on a website that handles money?

Security I should have on a website that handles money?

Security Needed For Websites Handling Money In today’s time, people are more immersed in technology than anything else. The tech industry has taken over everything, be it in the education aspect, advertising aspect, or banking, and financial aspects. People have mostly reverted to all their work, data, and even money handled over the phone. For this, it is necessary to have a website that is…
Website Security Advice You Should Know About

Website Security Advice You Should Know About

Top Security Advice for Your Website 1. Upgrade Your Website Protocol to HTTPS You’ve probably noticed some websites having a padlock and green icon on the URL bar when you first access them. This means the sites have an SSL certificate and have activated an encryption protocol. An SSL encryption serves as an extra layer of protection by encrypting data as it shuffles between the…
Website Security Tips for New Users

Website Security Tips for New Users

Website Security Tips An effective website security suite follows a systematic framework that includes five functions you need to understand as a novice tech user. It entails identifying web properties, hardening patches, and environments, detecting alerts, responding to threats, and recovering from attacks. 1. Choose Effective Security Certificates When you visit just about any website, you’ll notice “https” at the beginning of the URL, indicating…
How To Keep Your Website Secure Against Brute Force Attacks

How To Keep Your Website Secure Against Brute Force Attacks

Security Against Brute Force Attack The internet and its growth over the years have led to a new avenue for crime. Cybercrime is so rampant that in the UK, it accounts for over 50% of criminal activity. According to the University of Maryland, computers and networks are attacked at least once every 39 seconds. Another statistic from Imperva’s 2019 Cyberthreat Defense Report states that 78%…
7 Things Web Design Clients Should Know About Website Security

7 Things Web Design Clients Should Know About Website Security

Website Security Concerns For this article, we sat down with him to know more about the most common security-related matters website owners face and what would be the best piece of advice he can give to our clients. 1. Understand the Responsibilities of Your Hosting Company  While competent web hosting companies implement a certain degree of protection to their servers, they still can’t guarantee full…
How To Protect Your Website From Online Threats

How To Protect Your Website From Online Threats

Protect Your Website With more people online than ever before, the internet has become even more susceptible to cyberattacks and online scams. Cyberthieves thrive on the lack of awareness of netizens so their actions often go unnoticed until it is too late.  In this article, we touch on the most common online scam today, Phishing. We explain what constitutes phishing, how to identify it, and…
7 THINGS WEB DESIGN CLIENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WEBSITE SECURITY

7 THINGS WEB DESIGN CLIENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WEBSITE SECURITY

7 THINGS WEB DESIGN CLIENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WEBSITE SECURITY 1. Understand the Responsibilities of Your Hosting Company  Client’s Concern: “Shouldn’t the hosting company or web development agency be held liable if something happens to my website?” Priority Web Services Advice: The hosting company is akin to a landlord who leases you a property where you can stay. In this case, the property is the server in…
How To Ramp Up Your Website's Security

How To Ramp Up Your Website's Security

How To Ramp Up Your Website’s Security Cyber attacks are neither new nor a threat of the past. Barely 1 month before, cyber-attacks took place within the time frame of the Trump-Kim Summit on June 12. 88% of attacks against Singapore were estimated to be from Russia. These were mostly reconnaissance scans targeting vulnerable devices to collect sensitive information. SMEs and businesses with weak organizational infrastructures…
How To Protect Your Magento Website Against Hackers

How To Protect Your Magento Website Against Hackers

Protect Your Magento Website Against Hackers We’ve learned that attackers visited online shops and exploit the site’s PayPal Express integration feature to check the validity of a stolen payment card for illegal use. Other websites had also reported similar instances wherein hundreds of 0$ transactions on Magento 2.1.x and 2.2.x stores were initiated to verify a card’s details. Reports say that these hackers come from…
3 Steps to Secure Your Website with VPN

3 Steps to Secure Your Website with VPN

3 Steps to Secure Your Website with VPN Website owners, especially those who have been doing business online for some time now, know all the trouble one hacker can make. Once these hackers gain access to your website (whether authorized or unauthorized) they could do a lot of damage for your established business. This is why most businesses online hire a team of cybersecurity specialists just to make sure no…
5 Reasons Your Website Needs Maintenance

5 Reasons Your Website Needs Maintenance

5 Reasons Your Website Maintenance When designing and developing a business website, many business owners do not realize how essential it is to have a long-term site maintenance plan. Website maintenance is crucial to your website’s health, even more so if you are running an eCommerce business. Whether it’s fixing a bug or implementing a feature to improve your site’s user experience, making small but…
WordPress Maintenance Is A Must

WordPress Maintenance Is A Must

WordPress Maintenance One of the things WordPress is well known for, might be that annoying amount of updates it requires between the WordPress core, plugins and the theme you are using. All of these regular fixes take a few minutes each, but before you know it, it is a lot of time away from delivering the product/service to your customers. That is mainly the reason…
Why Security Takes A Back Seat for Developers

Why Security Takes A Back Seat for Developers

Why Security Takes for Developers The Linux Foundation and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard recently released a Report on the 2020 Free/Open-Source Software Contributor Survey. One of the primary conclusions of this report was the fact that free/open-source software developers often have a very negative approach to security. They spend very little time resolving security issues (an average of 2.27% of their total time…
What are the biggest threats to e-commerce websites?

What are the biggest threats to e-commerce websites?

What are the to e-commerce websites? Online stores are ideal places to illegally access payment information, free items, or customer contact details. Here are some of the most common ways criminals get their hands on such information.  Fraud: Malicious users can use someone else’s payment information to purchase goods illegally. DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-service): These attacks overwhelm websites with traffic, preventing legitimate users from accessing the website. These…
10 Fast and Easy WordPress Security Hacks You Need

10 Fast and Easy WordPress Security Hacks You Need

10 Fast & Security Hacks You Need If you are currently running a WordPress website, without focusing on keeping your site code secure, you may be exposed to some serious problems. It’s very important to know that WordPress security is not automatic.  It is time for a consistent focus on digital protection.  1. Don’t use ‘Admin’ as your administrator username “Admin” or “admin” is the most…
Free SSL Certificates

Free SSL Certificates

SSL Certificates Ideally, every time you visit a website, that connection should happen over a secure HTTPS connection so nobody can snoop on your surfing habits when you are using a public network at a coffee shop or at the airport. But in reality, most smaller websites don’t offer these kinds of secure connections because getting the kind of digital public-key certificate that makes HTTPS connections…
Ensure business continuity with Microsoft 365 email backup

Ensure business continuity with Microsoft 365 email backup

Ensure Business Continuity With Email Backup You received that email from your accountant a couple of months ago, yet mysteriously it has vanished from your Exchange Online inbox. You search feverishly, checking every folder and even the “Deleted Items” file. Where the heck did it go? All you know is that it’s gone … For good. You wish you had Microsoft 365 email backup. Data-syncing…
Primary, addon, alias, subdomains

Primary, addon, alias, subdomains

For anyone new to the world of web hosting, the four different types of domains can seem a little overwhelming. We’ve put together a handy guide below to help you brush up on the differences. What is a primary domain? A primary domain, in the context of the average website, is the main address that the website can be found at. It will likely be…
What You Need to Know About Addon Domains

What You Need to Know About Addon Domains

What You About Addon Domains For those who are not immersed in the world of hosting, getting a grip on all of the terms and definitions in the field can be daunting — not to mention time-consuming. Without proper knowledge of the industry and a strong understanding of definitions, website owners could be left neglecting hosting extras that could be beneficial. Let us take, for…
Website Vs Web Portal - How Are They Different

Website Vs Web Portal - How Are They Different

How Are They Different People can be confused between websites and web portals, as both are perfect platforms, but used for different purposes. Both are different terms but, interlinked, as both, websites and web portals, are web-based. Websites are used to reach a large number of potential audiences and on the other hand, web portals limit the number of users. A website is a location…
Turn Your Website Into A Mobile App With These Easy Steps

Turn Your Website Into A Mobile App With These Easy Steps

Turn Your With These Easy Steps About 90 percent of the users prefer mobile apps and 11 percent of people use websites. Most successful companies are now launching mobile apps to stay ahead of the competition. It is a good idea to have a mobile app for every business. Mobile apps can bring more traffic to your business. If you are a business owner thinking…
Top 20 Web Application Testing Tools In 2020

Top 20 Web Application Testing Tools In 2020

Top 20 In 2020 Web application testing methodology is a testing methodology focused on web applications. With the help of this testing, you can identify issues in web application functionality, usability, compatibility, and performance. What Are Web Application Testing Tools? Software to assist in diverse web testing activities like capturing and test management. In this article, we have shared a list of all popular web…