Website development has changed a lot, even in the last 5 years, and there are two major ways you can save money on your website. The first is re-using existing tools to get some great results; the second is keeping your site safe. Let me expand on these in the following article. The first – […]
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Why there’s no substitute for Magento Full Page Caching
It’s worth knowing that probably the single key performance improvement that can be done to a Magento site is to install a good caching mechanism so that website pages do not have to be recomputed regularly. These caches are often called Full Page Caches, or FPCs in abbreviated form, in Magento lingo, and are also […]
How to change your PHP version through cPanel
Being able to test that a website that your are having developed works on the latest version of PHP is an important step in future proofing your website and making sure that it will last a long time before needing to be rebuilt. This also enables you to keep your old website going longer by […]
Major WordPress security bug fix released in WordPress 4.8.3 plus some background
In the last few weeks, a security researcher called Anthony Ferrera found a relatively serious security bug in WordPress. The bug essentially allows attacks via the WordPress database functions, which were not as secure as intended.
Having issues with your emails being blocked as spam? Use Mail Tester to find out why
We find that clients sometimes run into issues with emails they send being marked as spam and being returned to them. Tracking down the reasons as to why that happens can sometimes be difficult, but using a tool called Mail Tester makes diagnosing the issue easy and helps quickly resolve the issue.
Phishing alert
Easter Security alert: Be extra careful of phishing attacks over Easter and this week – there’s a new way of making the domains look identical to legit sites – but they’re not!
Free https access now available! Secure your site now!
Over the last few years, there has been an evolution in the concept of SSL, with a number of initiatives aimed at making websites everywhere more secure against having their traffic “snooped” by third party organizations whose ethics you might have concerns about in the long term. Or understandably, you might just find the concept […]
Blocked by our firewall? Automatic self-unblocking now available!
Have you been blocked by the firewall? All our servers run smart firewalls, which lock people off if they keep on trying to guess your password or if they look like they are hacking into your website. This block locks out only yourself at your current location (via IP address), that is, it really […]
Optimizing your website with cPanel file compression in 3 clicks
cPanel allows you to turn on web compression for serving your website files. What this means is that cPanel “compresses” the size of many of your site files when sending them to the browser, thus optimizing your site. For most sites, this is safe and makes things much faster – sometimes up to double the […]
WordPress: How to find what just broke your site
One of the hardest issues to solve with broken WordPress sites is finding out what broke the website. To find the answer to this, we need to find out what was changed that broke the site. Being able to find out what changed easily and can quickly shorten a difficult investigative process – which is […]
Warning: don’t publish your email address!
This is a simple tip that will save you a lot of pain down the track – don’t publish your email address! What do I mean by that? I mean, don’t put your email address in clear text anywhere on the web. Not on your web pages, not on someone else’s and never in any […]