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How To Protect Your Site from Cyber Crime

Richard — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:23:00 +0000

In the 1980s, computer viruses passed around on floppy disks were the main security risks. How things have changed! Now, we have bot nets, advanced persistent threats, social engineering, and phishing to worry about. Kate Craig-Wood, MD of hosting provider, Memset has provided this overview on what you can do to keep your site safe. [...]

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How To Protect Your Site from Cyber Crime

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HostGator Black Friday: Save 50%

Richard — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:00:23 +0000

Breaking news: you can save 50% on any HostGator hosting plan until the end of today. You’ll find HostGator‘s Black Friday promotion right here. That means you can get a whole years shared hosting for just $23.76. The discount applies to first invoice, so you need to prepay (ie, pay for a year or more, [...]

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HostGator Black Friday: Save 50%

5 Easy Ways to Save Money on Hosting With the economy being as tight as it is, most...
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Review: HostBaby – Hosting for Musicians

Jonathan — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:39:27 +0000

As the hosting industry becomes more diversified it is also becoming more specialized. These days, there are hosting brands and services for nearly every single application, operating system, CMS, client type and country. If you have a specific need for your site, there’s a company out there that can meet it. HostBaby is a predictable [...]

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Review: HostBaby – Hosting for Musicians

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Livefyre: The New Kid on the Commenting Block

Jonathan — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:15:10 +0000

The blog commenting landscape is dominated by a handful of big names. Currently, Disquis and Facebook have the lion’s share of the market, although Automattic, the owners of WordPress.com, have a large presence with their Intense Debate platform. However, a different company is hoping to challenge these stalwarts of the industry. Livefyre, although it’s been [...]

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Livefyre: The New Kid on the Commenting Block

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Understanding File Permissions in FTP (CHMOD)

Jonathan — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:56:54 +0000

Uploading anything more complicated than basic HTML (for example, a PHP script), usually requires some fiddling with permissions settings to make things work properly. Whether you’re battling an error or just following the instructions to install a new script on your server, you at least need to know how to set permissions. However, many webmasters [...]

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Understanding File Permissions in FTP (CHMOD)

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5 Personal Skills Every Webmaster Needs

Jonathan — Mon, 23 May 2011 12:38:56 +0000

When it comes to hosting and setting up a website, many people focus almost entirely on the technical skills one needs to keep things running smoothly. At the very least, a webmaster needs to know how to use a computer and how the Internet works, right? Only sort of. Thanks to CPanel, WordPress and a [...]

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5 Personal Skills Every Webmaster Needs

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WordPress 3.2 Beta Brings Speed and Clarity

Jonathan — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:26:45 +0000

WordPress users (and that includes us!) will be happy to know that version 3.2 had a beta release last week, bringing a slew of new features that are designed to improve the performance, usability and appearance of the blogging platform. However, this upgrade is rather different from the others. The most touted changes are not [...]

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WordPress 3.2 Beta Brings Speed and Clarity

Why W3 Total Cache Brings WordPress One Step Closer To Perfection WordPress is far and away the most popular blogging platform...
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5 Things You Might Not Know About Your TOS

Jonathan — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:18:10 +0000

Since TwitPic’s recent controversy over its terms of service, which saw the company backtrack from an aggressive TOS that prevented its users from reselling photos they had uploaded to the service, a great deal of new attention has been focused on the contracts and agreements we sign every time we register with a new service. [...]

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5 Things You Might Not Know About Your TOS

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Google Adds Site Speed to Analytics

Jonathan — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:18:03 +0000

When it comes to third-party site statistics, Google Analytics (GA) is pretty much the gold standard. It provides a tremendous amount of practical information, integration with other Google products, including Adsense and Adwords, and clear charts all for free. However, Google recently announced that it was taking things one step further and adding something almost [...]

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Google Adds Site Speed to Analytics

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Death of RSS Endangers Our Open Internet

Jonathan — Wed, 11 May 2011 08:35:36 +0000

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is one of the technologies that helped blogging grow hugely. By offering a simple method for others to subscribe to or otherwise access the content of a dynamic site, it made blogs, with their rapid pace of updates, more accessible and approachable. For a time, an RSS feed literally determined, [...]

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Death of RSS Endangers Our Open Internet

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