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Sep25

Things Hosting Providers Love Hyping

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Things Hosting Providers Love Hyping (that have no bearing on quality of solution) Interactions with hosting service providers are an inevitability that everyone who intends to have a website or other online platform must eventually deal with. They provide a crucial service in the form of access to a server to make it possible to publish a website and by extension information online. However, for anyone new to this arena, lacking in experience can be a downside. The technical terms thrown at the prospective entrants into this market can have them confused and eventually deluded into buying a poor service. Or even worse they can end up paying more for a service that will not really serve their needs. Many wonder why this would be the case even with the widespread information access. The truth is that some of the things that service providers love hyping about their respective services have little or no bearing on actual quality of service provided. Here are five commonly hyped things that are of little consequence to the quality of service provided and why. Number of websites hosted on their platform Every hosting provider will have a counter on their homepage indicating the total […]

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Sep19

Using WordPress to Create Your Own Website

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To understand how you can use WordPress to create your own website it is paramount to understand first what WordPress is. WordPress is considered as one of the world best tool to use in the creation and managing of website. And by website I mean any kind of website be it a blog or a business website. When using WordPress to create a website one does not need design skills or codes to create site that appears professional. WordPress world comprises of thousands of free site design to which one can choose the theme he or she needs for his website. Thus, word press makes it easy for one to build a website without having the knowledge of HTML or writing codes. The difference between desktop software and WordPress is that it runs online and one does not have to install anything no tools required to do so and updates can be carried out anywhere so long as the internet is available. What makes WordPress more interesting is that its free to modify and use. Moreover, the website is portable meaning that one can host it anywhere and be free to move it as he or she wills.   WordPress Brief […]

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Sep14

Key Elements Of An Effective Website Optimization

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Nothing can be more challenging than designing a stylish website that appeals to search engines; yet, it is essential if your website is to generate massive traffic. Effectual website optimization becomes one of those tools that must accompany your website contents such that you benefit from it. So what could be some of the key secrets to developing contents that strikes both search engines and website visitors? Even though there is no any set of tricks as well as strategies to use, there are five essential website optimization ideas that when properly used can highly affect your site while it remains attractive to visitors and appeal highly to search engines. Include title tags and Meta Although this may seems redundant, most popular search engines still use Title tags, Meta keyword and Meta description when ranking web pages. When working on every page content, ensure to place a title tag categorically at the top of every page so that every document identifies with the overall content. The Meta descriptions should be accurately written given that search engines uses it to depict a website in search engines. Be careful as well not to forget to include a Meta keyword tag to portray […]

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Sep01

How to decide if a hybrid cloud is best for your business

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Hybrid cloud computing is increasingly gaining traction in the business environment. However, as IT professionals sing its praises, business owners who are usually laymen wonder what this technology is and how it will change the way they operate. These are the questions that business owners are forced to address as they determine whether the hybrid cloud is suitable for their business’ needs. The hybrid cloud computing model enables users to leverage benefits of both the public and private cloud systems. Proponents of these systems praise the scalability, speed, and cost effectiveness of the hybrid cloud. Here is an insider’s look at this technology and why it is an important resource for your business. Introduction A hybrid cloud is an amalgamation of at least one private and one public cloud. The public cloud and private cloud are bound together on a platform that enables an organization to use them as if they were one. However, the two cloud resources remain distinct entities. The platform created allows utilization of both private cloud and public cloud resources. This allows management of the resources such that on-premise capacities are used for some functions and public cloud capacities for others. For example, you can chose […]

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Aug25

Eight Essential Features of WordPress Managed Hosting

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WordPress is the most widely used CMS. It is used by amateur bloggers, professionals, large enterprises and e-commerce stores. WordPress is hosted on shared, dedicated and managed servers. Managed hosting for WordPress has several benefits, whether in a cloud or on traditional server. Here are eight features you should look out for when choosing a managed hosting provider. Effective user interface The primary reason for choosing managed hosting is usability. Businesses want to avoid employing a dedicated technical person to handle hosting issues. This means that the user interface for handling hosting related issues must be easy to use and designed to enable operation by a non-technical staff. Sometimes when WordPress users are required to manually update themes and plug-ins they must be able to do so without breaking into a sweat. The user interface is therefore a critical component of any managed hosting service. A fresh installation of WordPress should be painless and quick in a managed hosting environment. Migration is another aspect which requires close attention. Mature WordPress websites who wish to migrate to a managed environment must be able to do so without complex and difficult processes which may lead to loss of data and content. Many […]

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Aug25

How to move to a new WordPress host without affecting your files

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Moving a WordPress site from one host to another may be influenced by multiple reasons, such as the ability to fully control your domain, full control over themes, plugins and storage space. Others may be forced to switch to a new host if the current host is constantly facing security threats, and would therefore want to upgrade to a more secure host. If you want to do this, then you will be happy to know that moving your site from one host to another is a very simple and straight forward process. However, it is only simple if you have mastered the entire process, because there are several specific steps you have to follow to ensure that you retain all your data while moving to the new site. If you are able to successfully move to a new host, all your previous data will be unaffected and you will have the same plugins, themes and other add-ons. It can be very disheartening to lose your files, because it will require you to install new ones some of which may have cost you a lot of money to acquire, not forgetting the very involving task of writing new content. Most sites […]

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Aug12

10 Tips for Hardening a Linux Server

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In light of all the complex and specialized attacks on Internet-facing servers, it’s very important to protect your cloud assets from malicious assailants whose sole purpose is to leach, alter, expose, siphon sensitive data, or even to shut you down. From someone who does a lot of Linux deployments, I like to have handy a Linux template with some extra security policies configured. Securing your environment starts during the ordering process when you are deploying server resources. Sometimes you want to deploy a quick server without putting it behind an extra hardware firewall layer or deploying it with an APF (Advance Policy Firewall). Here are a couple of security hardening tips I have set on my Linux template to have a solid base level of security when I deploy a Linux system. Note: The following instructions assume that you are using CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 1. Change the Root Password Log in to your server and change the root password if you didn’t use a SSH key to gain access to your Linux system. passwd – Make sure it’s strong. Don’t intend on using root. 2. Create a New User The root user is the only user created […]

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Aug09

WordPress & Drupal Vulnerability? –  Keep calm and update!

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Yesterday, a serious vulnerability in the PHP XML parser used by WordPress and Drupal was announced. After some great collaboration between the core developers of those applications, new versions that address the issue were released for both WordPress and Drupal. We are proactively addressing the issue too: Our security team has been addressing the issue on the server level. We have discerned unwanted activity during last week and have applied certain firewall rules to mitigate it even before the exploited issue was announced. Once we became aware of the officially published details of the problem, we were able to refine our server level defense. Our team is on the guard and ready to add a future improvement if needed. All WordPress users, who use our autoupdater will be updated to the newest version in 24 hours after the announcement was made All WordPress users, who do not use our autoupdater but are on a version 3.7 or higher will be automatically updated by the native WordPress update function too. Once the automatic updates are done, we will scan our servers for outdated WordPress versions and will contact by email their users to recommend update. We will also contact all Drupal […]

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Aug07

Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review

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Although WordPress is already an SEO-friendly publishing platform, there is always room for improvement. One of the best free plugins available is the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. This plugin has had over eight million downloads and is designed to improve your website’s SEO by taking care of technical optimization and allowing you to write more SEO-friendly content. Here we will take a look at some of the key features and benefits.

Aug03

How the use of WordPress will benefit your business

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Most websites and blogs are now running on a WordPress-based platform, and this numbers are estimated to increase by a huge margin in the near future. This is because WordPress offers unlimited gains, whether you are a blogger or a website owner. A common question which most people ask is, “Is WordPress right for me?” The best way to answer this question, would be to ask yourself, “what to do I intend to use WordPress for?” If you want to establish a huge online presence, WordPress is definitely right for you. A combination of search engine optimization strategies (white hat SEO strategies) such as keywords and link building will ensure that your site gets more visitors, and you are therefore able to sell your brand more. Its connection with social media is also a huge plus, because social media has been known to convert little known brands into big companies. The way in which information is shared out through social media leaves a lot to be desired. How WordPress Can Help Your Business Grow? If you are a small-time business person who is just starting out and you are running on a low budget, then WordPress is also right for […]

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