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Have you started thinking about Christmas presents yet? If you’re feeling the pressure and want to get something thoughtful without spending the earth, we might just have the answer…. Our gift idea is unique, inexpensive and doesn’t require a trip to the mall: A website, with a domain, for an entire year. Granted, a website [...]

The number of ways a server can be turned to evil by malicious attackers is enough to make even the laziest of webmasters put a lot of energy into security. However, despite their best efforts, a server’s security is always at risk because of one key fact: security is a joint effort between the account [...]

You know the Golden Rule of passwords, right…? Don’t share them. Everyone you share a password with is a potential security risk; the fewer people know your password, the more secure it is and the better off you are. However, life is rarely that simple. Sometimes you need other people to have access to your [...]

In the previous post, we discussed some of the basics of how the Web works and how amazing it is that the Internet functions at all, let alone so reliably. However, that doesn’t mean that the system doesn’t have its flaws and potential security holes. There are countless ways in which it can be misused [...]

The Web is an amazing thing – the way that it works and the fact that it does so so reliably really takes my breath away. Many of us are so focused on building and operating our sites that we never really consider the ‘lower level’; the nuts and bolts of what happens every single [...]

Last week we talked about how to improve password security by making them tougher to crack. However, your password security is risked if you can’t remember them. After all, the purpose of a good password is to deny others access to your accounts while still allowing you to enter. If you don’t complete the second [...]

How fashion blogger Poppy used our tool to get her photos removed from a porn site. Like any sensible blogger, Poppy of What I Wore Today fame uses Google Alerts to monitor her online presence. One day, she had a nasty surprise: some innocent photos of her had been posted on an adult website. Poppy [...]

The one thing that every webmaster seems to have in spades is passwords. We have one for our CPanel, FTP, WordPress, email, IM, Google account and every other service that we use. It can be a huge headache; any one password being defeated is a security nightmare, as no firewall can protect you against someone [...]

One of the things that the University of Advancing Technology’s Techforum has done is give representatives of the hosting industry a chance to talk about what big things they are working on and where they see the industry going in the next five to ten years. With so many differing areas of expertise in attendance, [...]