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7 Ways to speed up your website
Posted by David Law in Webhosting tips on April 1, 2013 with No Comments
As average internet connection speeds increase around the world, web users are becoming less and less tolerant of slow load times. At the same time, Google has stated unequivocally that it prefers to reward fast sites with higher positions in the natural search results.
To take advantage of these dual benefits, you need to make site speed a priority on your site. Any of the following seven tips will help you to get started on this important path:
Do I need a vulnerability assessment?
Posted by David Law in Hosting Essentials on November 25, 2012 with No Comments
The CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) database includes over 59,000 known information security threats. While the techniques used to access your data or alter website code vary greatly, a security breach usually has one of these aims:
- Database access and the theft or corruption of personal or sensitive data
- Altering website code in order to change what users see
- Intercepting personal and sensitive data
- Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that render services unavailable
If you’re thinking about having a security expert or your hosting provider evaluate your website or server vulnerability, here are a few questions to ask yourself in order to help you decide.
Unmetered hosting, traffic & bandwidth guide
Posted by David Law in Hosting Essentials on November 10, 2012 with No Comments
Unmetered hosting means a hosting plan with unmetered traffic. The price you pay each month does not depend on the amount of traffic (data) sent to and from your server during the month. But unmetered does not mean unlimited.
In fact unmetered hosting plans are often very limited in the amount of data you can send and receive, because data is often transferred between your servers and the public web at a lower speed.
This blog post will look at the terminology of server traffic and bandwidth. We’ll also explain how to get a clear picture of exactly what you are buying.
