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Improve your Sender Reputation by Managing Bounce Rates Through ZeroBounce

Posted by Andrei on October 18, 2017 in Company News, Security, Web Hosting

Hosters, Managing your brand through email marketing can be difficult, especially when it comes to email deliverability. It’s the most important part of your email marketing efforts ‐ to get the email in the hands of your current and potential customers. According to the Radicati Group, Inc. over 100 billion emails are sent and received […]

WordPress 4.7.3 Security Release

Posted by Andrei on March 07, 2017 in Security, WordPress

A new version of WordPress has just been released. WordPress 4.7.3 is the third in a series of recent security releases for WordPress core. The older version, 4.7.2 was released on January 26th to fix a now famous WordPress vulnerability. The new 4.7.3 core release addresses three Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities: Cross-site scripting (XSS) via media file metadata. […]

Secure your WordPress website now

Posted by Andrei on February 24, 2017 in How To's

We all heard about WordPress latest security issues, critical vulnerabilities that could allow a hacker to modify the content of any post or page on your WordPress website. The latest version 4.7.2 was released to patch this security flaw and it seems things are now back to normal. But, this event reminded everyone how important is […]

It’s time to speed up your website

Posted by Andrei on February 17, 2017 in How To's, Web Hosting

Everybody likes to surf the internet, but when we find a website that doesn’t load in an instant, we become easily annoyed. Most of us choose to leave that website for an alternative one. According to experts, 47% of users expect a site to load very fast, and when that doesn’t happen they tend to leave it. This […]

How to prepare for Google’s Mobile-First Index

Posted by Andrei on February 03, 2017 in How To's

We talked already about the changes Google is going to make this year. One of them is “mobile first indexing” that basically means its search results index will prioritize mobile results first. This is not unexpected, since search queries on mobile have now surpassed desktop-based queries. It seems that people browse the internet more from their mobile […]

WordPress 4.7.2 Security Release

Posted by Andrei on January 27, 2017 in WordPress

A new WordPress 4.7.2 Security release has just been made available. This latest version fixes three security issues discovered in the 4.7.1 and earlier versions. So, we advise all our users to update to the latest version as soon as possible. These are the main security issues addressed: The user interface for assigning taxonomy terms […]

Why you should enable HTTPS on your website

Posted by Andrei on January 18, 2017 in Security

Starting this January, Google Chrome 56 will show a warning for unencrypted sites that collect passwords or credit card information, describing them as “not secure. Why is Google doing this? Mainly because it wants to make the web more secure. Google has already announced HTTPS as a ranking signal, also indexing secure pages over unsecured […]

WordPress 4.7.1 Security Release

Posted by Andrei on January 12, 2017 in WordPress

WordPress just released its latest version 4.7.1 as a security and maintenance release for all previous versions. We advise all our users to update to the latest version as soon as possible. This security release fixes eight security issues that were reported after the release of the major version in December 2016. The version also fixes over […]

Essential elements for every eCommerce website

Posted by Andrei on December 23, 2016 in How To's

We live in the age of eCommerce sites, a time when you have to opt for an eCommerce platform if you want to exist on the internet as a retailer. Do you think your online shop has what it takes in this ever-changing world of technologies? Here are a few key elements that your eCommerce […]

Joomla 3.6.5 released – IMPORTANT Security Update

Posted by Andrei on December 15, 2016 in Installatron, Joomla

Joomla! 3.6.5 is now available. The new version is an important security release, addressing three main security issues, miscellaneous security hardening and three bug fixes. The following security issues were fixed: High Priority – Core – Elevated Privileges (affecting Joomla! 1.6.0 through 3.6.4) Low Priority – Core – Shell Upload (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.6.4) […]

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