WPEngine gives customers free SSL certificates

Cloud security

WPEngine has announced the company will now be including free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for their customers. Existing customers can activate their free SSL certificate with a few clicks from within the WPEngine portal. Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates are just like any other SSL certificate with the exception that they expire every 90 days. This […]

Weebly.com had security breach in February 2016

If you are a Weebly.com customer you should go and change your password. If your Weebly password is shared with any other accounts. You should also change the password for those accounts. LeakedSource has data obtained from a security breach at Weebly in February of 2016. The data was was taken from Weebly includes: usernames, […]

Dyn experiences DDoS attack

Squid

Users on the West Coast and East Coast of the United States maybe experiencing some issues when attempting to access sites like: Amazon.com, Spotify, Netflix, GitHub, SoundCloud, Etsy, Twitter, and many other poplar sites. The reason for the connectivity issue is because Dyn.com is experiencing a massive DDoS attack. Dyn.com is one of the largest […]

How do green web hosts offset carbon emissions?

Three gears

So how do “green” web hosts offset carbon emissions by their datacenters? There are a few different ways that a “green” web host can offset their carbon emissions. First, the web host can buy credits from their energy or electricity supplier. Electricity credits The “credits” can mean different things to different electric companies but either […]

Should I host a download mirror?

What is a download mirror? A download mirror is a copy or exact duplicate of files hosted by a central or main server. Acting as a “download mirror” your server would be helping provide another place for people to download whatever files you are hosting. Should you host a download mirror? If you are getting […]

Is HostGator a bad web host?

HostGator is one of the largest and most popular shared web host over the last 5 years. The question of whether or not HostGator is a bad host will have varying answers. Some customers will say HostGator is the best while others may disagree and say HostGator is the worst. A lot of options There […]