Managed Hosting – What are they managing?

Are you being lulled into believing you are on a managed server when you rent your server from the likes of Rackspace.com and other data centers stating they are offering managed servers? What does it really mean when a data center provider states they offer managed...

Revealing the process of becoming PCI Compliant

If you want to accept credit cards online, then you need to be PCI Compliant, whether your business is brand new, or your business been established for centuries. Over the years, we’ve helped various business owners and managers to become PCI Compliant. To those...

Why cheap hosting really limits the growth of your site

When it comes to sayings, one of the older ones is “if it looks too good to be true, it probably is!” The hard part when it comes to choosing a hosting provider when you have approximately 32,000 hosting providers in the United States alone tied to various...

WordPress Security Release – Upgrade to 3.3.2 ASAP

WordPress 3.3.2 is available now and is a security update for all previous versions. Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates: Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media. SWFUpload, which WordPress previously...

Do it yourself Search Engine Optimization

Most of our customers are small to medium businesses where each employee (sometimes there’s only the owner) wears many hats. In the “new normal” economic climate, our customers often seek to the best ways to be frugal, getting the absolute most value...

WordPress to Facebook using RSS Graffiti

While authors blog for various reasons, one of the most common factors of blogging is the desire to get the word out. One way to increase your blogging audience is to publish the articles you write on your blog to your Facebook fan page(s) or personal page. Let me...

Why rel=author is just as important as keywords

Let’s face it… for the past several years, Google has been the king of search engines. If you are an author of any kind — blogger, writer, content developer web site maintainer, etc — you want what you write to have the best opportunity to show...

Weak passwords and open doors

If you are reading this article, you’ve probably had your share of headaches as to how to create a password for a given application that is easy to remember; and, at the same time hard for hackers to crack open or otherwise break in.   Prior to today, my...

Why installing WordPress manually is more secure

Have you ever watched Restaurant Impossible or Kitchen Nightmares? Where you shocked to see some chefs merely reheating food in a microwave, using canned soup, and other prepackaged or precooked items rather than the chefs being chefs — cooking using fresh...