Today I will cover a little strange question. In fact I stumbled across this question on the webhostingtalk.com forum. A guy was asking where would you use a strong password and where a weak one. Well, a pretty easy question and a pretty easy answer as well, but it is not all that simple. What [...]
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Phishing scam [namecheap.com] and phishing generally…
I though I will let you know. This just came in trough Facebook.com Namecheap.com ALERT! There’s a phishing scam purporting to be from WhoisGuard. This is NOT from us. Please see more info here: http://community.namecheap.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2793 One small note from my self : NEVER CLICK ON EMAIL ATTACHMENTS OR LINKS IN EMAIL AS YOU CAN BE [...]
Do you ever wonder? TODAY: Why I can’t have HTTPS on my web site?
I think this is not a properly asked question and a far better headline would be “What do I need to be able to use https instead of http for my web site?”. The answer to this question would be than this article The black magic behind aka “the Intro” As you may or may [...]
Security and shared hosting
It does not matter whether we are talking about internet-banking, web hosting, or Amazon purchases the one thing we should never forget is “Security”. The Internet is not a very safe place and thus thinking about security all the time is a very important thing. Regular user point of view A regular user just log’s [...]
Do you ever wonder? Today: Difference between FTP & SFTP
I think, that you have most likely stumbled upon these two very different protocols while searching for a hosting package of your dreams, or while searching for something else. There is a good chance, that you tend to use only FTP and think using SFTP is the same and it does not matter which of [...]
What steps to take before signing up with a host?
This post will be whole about checking things before you enter your credit card number and personal details. It’s very important to know, that the Internet is a every unsafe place and you can never tell you are absolutely secure. Hosting company check The moment you have decided you will go with hosting company X [...]
Seeing database data of another users on a shared hosting?
This article is inspired by webhostingtalk and I think you should read carefully as this is a really big and unprofessional mistake! I read today an interesting thread about a guy who was able to see [and is still able to see] other users database data trough phpmyadmin. You say to yourself – what about [...]
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