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What is the best shopping cart?

We get this asked all the time, along with.. is it best that our shopping cart website is self hosted or hosted on a platform? Good questions? The answer is simple: host on a platform! Everything is done for you, the cart will have every feature needed to set-up and get the business going. As […]

Hostjacking: Hosting & Domain Name Hijacking

Hostjacking is when a web designer highjacks website hosting and domain name management. The web designer uses practices including: – refusing to transfer a new design website to the site owners’ hosting – copying an incomplete design to the site owners’ hosting – incomplete transfers of plugins and software Tricks that the designer blames on […]

CloudFlare: Unable to Login

I am both a fan of CloudFlare and a critic of CloudFlare protocols. Very very American and wayyyyyyyy over the top. I was locked out because of Two-Factor Authentication. Instead of simply saying email support@cloudflare.com with: list of domains (1 or more) in your account IP address(es) Hosting provider Datacentre Your name and email address […]

#1 WordPress Plugin: Cache Plugin

Of all the plugins recommended for WordPress, the Number #1 plugin at the top of the list is a Cache Plugin. For a minimal amount of work the benefits are massive to bothe website owner and the hosting server. Faster web pages Less drain on server Increase page rank on search engines What is caching? […]

Why You Need A Website Security Certificate

If there were any doubts about whether to get a security certificate for your web site then this message from Trustico, one of the world’s biggest certificate suppliers will help. Address = http: Google Chrome will show NOT SECURE to every visitor from May 2018. Address = https: Web site is secure (no message). In […]

Don’t Let Your Website Be Marked as “Not Secure”

SECURITY NEWS | FEBRUARY 2018 All types of website: business, freelance, creative, agency or blogger will need SSL. Unless you want Google telling visitors that your website is NOT secure, then you must have a security certificate. From July 2018, Google Chrome will display a warning message on HTTP web sites with any type of […]

cPanel: AutoSSL certificate renewal may cause a reduction of coverage

Typical email from cPanel to account contact: domain.com: The AutoSSL certificate renewal may cause a reduction of coverage starting 2017-00-00 at 00:00:00 A reduction of coverage refers to “search engine ranking”. Emails include a list of failures for cname like ftp, web disk etc. Fix: Disregard email (delete) Please check the release notes for 68 […]

Explained: .well-known

Looking through my hosting folders and noticed a new subdirectory (folder) that we didn’t put there. .well-known | pki-validation What is it and how did it get there? cPanel automatically adds SSL certificates to your domains so you rank better on search engines and have a more secure site. The process of generating these certificates […]

Get A Valid SSL Certificate

Google’s Chrome browser will display a security warning on all web sites that are not HTTPS starting October 2017. If your website has text input fields on an HTTP page or it is opened in the incognito mode, Chrome will display a warning notification to the user. What’s next? Your website will be deemed “not […]

Server Migration: Uber > Netregistry

VPS server (ripefruitdns): leased from UberGlobal (previously Jumba) since 2008. In February 2017, AFR reported: Melbourne IT has acquired Australia’s third largest cloud service provider UberGlobal. In March 2017 we were advised by UberGlobal by email that it was moving to Netregistry. Melbourne IT acquired NetRegistry in 2014. We will be relocating your VPS to our new […]

Best WordPress Security Fix

How we locked down our WordPress web sites, but in one move drastically improved server performance. Keeping in mind that the most common attack against WordPress is brute force passwords, then why not stop it in it’s tracks by blocking access to wp-admin. By blocking all access to WordPress Admin except to known IP Addresses, […]

How important is website security?

As a host as well as a developer we see both sides of website security when it comes to attack and defence. An idea of the level of attacks still taking place, we see a (monthly) report published by security expert Wordfence, WordPress Attack Report. WordPress Attack Report This report contains the top 25 attacking […]

Mobile Friendly Web Sites

MOBILE now accounts for over half of all web traffic¹, making performance on small screens more important than ever. Scary isn’t it.. “half” of all traffic comes from users on smart phones. A mobile responsive web site detects the device being used and displays the page according to the device. Web sites that are mobile […]

3rd Party Email Services

This page is for customers who wish to use a 3rd party service to manage their email accounts. Common 3rd party services include: Office 365, Rackspace, Google Apps. The same basic instructions apply for each service. ccess to MX records and Advanced Zone Control modules is made via cPanel It is highly recommended that customers engage […]

Email Reply Account

This page describes how to create a professional looking REPLY email account that can be used to reply to any email. It is easy to create, follow the steps below. Open Email Software Program (ie Outlook) on PC/MAC File/Account Settings Email Accounts (pop-up screen) select New…, Email Account, Next, Manual setup (option), Next, POP/IMAP, Next […]

Vicnet | Closing Down

Vicnet, a division of the State Library of Victoria is closing its web hosting, domain name and email services effective from Friday, January 31, 2014. The majority of Vicnet web sites are small community groups like Toy Libraries, Playgroups, Community Organisations, Neighbourhood/Community Houses, Historical Societies, Probus groups, etc. We are delighted to announce, Ripefruit (Melbourne) is […]