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Top Tips to Prevent Malicious Compromises Use Unique, Complex Passwords With more than 5,000 data breaches in 2019 alone, the importance of using unique, complex passwords cannot be overstated. The Surveillance Self-Defense guide at eff.org has many recommendations regarding passwords including writing them down on paper! Top Tips Use a password generator to create highly complex, secure passwords. Use a password […]

WordPress Security Tips

This article will cover many recommended methods to secure your WordPress installation. The latest version of WordPress can always been found on their official download page: Download WordPress or Latest WordPress Zip Archive. WordPress has a much more extensive treatment of the topic in their documentation. Here we go over some of the most basic measures you can take […]

What is Spamvertised or Spamvertising?

What is Spamvertising? Spamvertising is the practice of sending E-mail spam, advertising a website. The word is a portmanteau of the words “spam” and “advertising”. It also refers to vandalizing blogs, online forums or wikis with hyperlinks in order to get a higher search engine ranking for the vandal’s website. Spamvertisers insert links to their […]

This article is going to be thoroughly detailed in covering the different methods of checking domain access logs; why you should check them and how to protect yourself from further incidents. Remember; the goal is mitigation – reducing the impact your server experiences from such incidents – there is no method of 100% prevention. Why […]

If you wish to ensure no changes are being made to websites during a migration, it is best to consider preventing updates on your website and setup some form of maintenance or offline mode. Many CMS applications offer this functionality through use of plugins or a .maintenance file in the document root. By placing the website in […]

How to Reset a WordPress (Admin) Password

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Occasionally, it is necessary to reset a WordPress password. Sometimes you still have access with the old password, and simply want to make a new password to keep potential attackers guessing. Other times, you might have forgotten the old password, and need to set a new one in order to access your account on the […]

How to Use the Cron Daemon for wp-cron

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This article describes how to replace WordPress’s internal cron mechanism with a cron job run by the operating system’s cron daemon. What is wp-cron and How Does it Affect Your WordPress Site File wp-cron.php resides in the root directory of the WordPress site and is checked each time someone visits your site. If there is a task and its […]

Managed WordPress Hosting

With our Fully Managed WordPress Hosting packages you can get your site up and running in no time without any of the technical hassle of even traditional shared hosting accounts. In addition to the ease of setup, our WordPress plans are tailored to exactly the needs of WordPress to allow your site to operate blazing fast. […]