Hosting – Net Solutions

May 30, 2020

Published by Steven Lutrov on May 30, 2020

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Who looks after what on my Website?

Its easy to get confused about Web Design, Web Development and Hosting. To build, operate and maintain a Website requires an array of different skills and services. Some of those skills may overlap to a degree or communicate with each other, but usually no one-person or one-service will […]

October 4, 2018

Published by Steven Lutrov on October 4, 2018

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Chrome green padlock is now grey and not displaying secure anymore

Until recently, one way to see if a web page is secure is to look out for the green padlock in the browser (next to the URL). If there was no green padlock you would assume that the web page in not secure – that the communication between […]

June 20, 2018

Published by Olya Lutrov on June 20, 2018

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Why You Should Secure Your Site with HTTPS

For several years now, Google has been encouraging website owners to implement SSL certificates. It all started back in 2014 with the HTTPS Everywhere campaign where the goal was to raise awareness of the security by implementing SSL certificates. SSL later became a Google ranking signal to further […]

December 2, 2017

Published by Olya Lutrov on December 2, 2017

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Essential Tips to Avoid Getting Hacked

If someone hacked into your bank account, you would know that they were after your money. If they hacked into your email account, though, you need to think of what they wanted with your email. Perhaps they wish to pretend to be you and ask your relatives for […]

August 8, 2016

Published by Olya Lutrov on August 8, 2016

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The Risks of Publishing Content

Every time you publish content online, be it website pages, blog posts, images, videos or even user comments, you open yourself up to potential legal liability. The Internet is public and available to anyone, so even the smallest blog has the potential to reach millions of people. Legal […]

July 10, 2016

Published by Steven Lutrov on July 10, 2016

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How Much Does a Website Cost?

In this Blog I share some of our internal processes and methodology used at Net Solutions to provide a cost estimate to build a website. I spent many years pioneering and implementing activity based costing for major Telcos with great success. It may sound simple but its the […]

March 30, 2016

Published by Tony Sirico on March 30, 2016

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An Introduction to Domain Names and DNS

Introduction DNS, or the Domain Name System, is often a very difficult part of learning how to configure websites and servers. Understanding how DNS works will help you diagnose problems with configuring access to your websites and will allow you to broaden your understanding of what’s going on […]

July 24, 2015

Published by Tony Sirico on July 24, 2015

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Net Solutions Adds MariaDB for Faster MySQL Database Performance

Today we announce the transformation from MySQL to MariaDB in all our cPanel Hosting fleet. MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL that uses alternative engines to improve performance and is now the default database engine in all our cPanel Hosted servers. MariaDB offers the same functionality as […]