The Top 9 Ways You Can Foil Hackers
The word “hacker” strikes fear in the heart of many businesses and web hosting companies, and rightfully so. Hackers have become a major threat to websites, causing downtime, launching viruses…
The Top 9 Ways You Can Foil Hackers
The word “hacker” strikes fear in the heart of many businesses and web hosting companies, and rightfully so. Hackers have become a major threat to websites, causing downtime, launching viruses…
Use of DNS TXT Records to Amplify DDoS Attacks
DoS (Denial of Service) attacks cover any type of malicious interference that degrades website services. Attackers use bots to clog the data pipeline of a server, reducing the amount of…
Will Web Hosting Companies Need to Change to Meet the Rising Mobile Market?
The term “smartphone” is somewhat of a misnomer these days, since the millions of people who are using these so-called phones every day are actually using them to do much…
How Would an Email Outage Affect the Web?
Have you ever been at work when your email communication goes out? Do you ever hear people around the office who say that since email is down they might as…
Why Real Customer Reviews Matter to Web Hosting Shoppers
Modern web clients have many choices for their hosting company. Gone are the days when clients were limited to a few local hosts. Today, email and low-cost long distance access…
How Safe Are Password Management Sites?
As our everyday lives become more digital, passwords are becoming essential—and as passwords become ever more important, more and more password management tools have appeared to help you keep track…
Web Hosting Wars: How Far Will a Host Go to Gain Your Business?
Finding the budget for the huge expense of web hosting is a thing of the past, from a time when there were only a few large companies offering web hosting…
What are the Best Advertising Avenues for Web Hosts?
Large web hosting companies such as GoDaddy are able to create television advertising campaigns that keep the public aware of their brand. These marketing campaigns are expensive endeavors involving a…
A Brief History of Data Storage
It’s mind-blowing to think of how far IT technology has come since the PC first began to be marketed to a mass audience. It’s hard to fathom looking back just…
Speak Human! Should IT Workers Learn to Speak to the Layperson?
As an IT professional, you are one of the busiest employees at any organization. Not only do you multitask problem solving for issues that come in at unpredictable rates, but…
2014 New York Cloud Expo: Hybrid Cloud Growth Potential
Business discussions around cloud computing are increasingly focused on the idea of a hybrid cloud strategy. Instead of plans to move all data and applications to a cloud platform or…
Why Free Web Hosting Costs You Money
In today’s economy, every business needs a website, and every website needs to be hosted somewhere. Web hosting is one of the most important parts of owning a business website,…