Website Management

May 10, 2016
Ransomware Surges 14% in Q1 2016
The number of users affected by ransomware has increased by 30% in the first three months of this year. The Russian AV firm Kaspersky Lab said it’s security systems prevented more than 370,000 attacks on users in Q1 2016, 7% of which were aimed at the corporate sector. […]
March 30, 2016
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
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 […]
December 23, 2014
BruteProtect acquired by Automattic – Jetpack or Bloatpack
For quite some time now we have been using the BruteProtect plugin for our Managed WordPress clients. BruteProtect allows the millions of WordPress bloggers to work together to defeat Brute Force attacks using a cloud based solution. It served us well and was a member of the Net […]
September 17, 2014
Searchmetrics Releases 2014 Ranking Factors
The team at Searchmetrics recently released the SEO Ranking Factors and Rank Correlation 2014 Whitepaper based on their own directly observable data. While many SEO analysts use theory and speculation, Searchmetrics claim that their methodology of ranking evaluations are exact, fresh and based on huge amounts of data. […]
September 9, 2014
WooCommerce and WordPress – a great solution
WooCommerce and Magento have both seen massive growth over the last few years mainly due to their strong community support. Both have their Pros and Cons but WooCommerce has hit the sweet-spot for me. Before choosing any software, I’ve always looked at “what business problem” we are trying to […]
May 22, 2014
Google rolls out Panda 4.0 updates
We have all been expecting it and it finally occurred. Yesterday Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed the release of Panda 4.0 on his Twitter account. This is a new Panda algorithm and not your typical monthly refresh. Matt Cutts told Search Engine Land that this Panda 4.0 update impacts approx […]
April 3, 2014
Why am I losing Google rank
Just the other day a client who does not see the value in SEO called and said “Hey, I didn’t do anything to my website for the last year, I didn’t touch it, and now I am not on page 2 anymore, there is something wrong”. My reply […]