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Web.config and htaccess files At MijnHostingPartner.nl we make use of Microsoft IIS for the servers on which your websites reside. With Microsoft Internet Information Services you can use htaccess files as well as web.config files. These are files that can be used to manage a lot for your website. Think of securing a folder with a password setting up https redirect and making your URLs beautiful. Besides those three things there is much more you can do with them. The sky is the limit. Most Content

Project Gutenberg WordPress Coming soon is WordPress version 5.x. This is a major update for WordPress where a lot is being addressed. One of the major changes is the content editor which will be taken in hand with Project Gutenberg. WordPress will no longer use the old-fashioned editor where you always had to wait how your content would look.But now a block system will be used. Those who are not yet familiar with it can try out Project Gutenberg here: https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Project Gutenberg

Your business local with Google My Business To make your business more findable for local searches the choice soon falls on Google My Business. This is a tool that Google offers to make sure that your website and business can be found locally. If someone searches for a bakery in Vianen he should not see a bakery in Groningen in his results. You can achieve this by adding your business to Google My Business. There is a good chance your business is already listed on Google Maps or in the search results.

Testing your website Developing and creating websites involves several things one of the most important is testing but what is the best way to test? Today we will cover how you can best test your website in your Hosting It is advisable to have 2 environments when working on your website. A test environment or developer environment and a production live version. On the test version of your website you can for example test the latest updates and experiment with the layout. We mainly recommend that

Search engines you can advertise on We have it active as an extra incentive by default for anyone who wants to get started with Google Adwords. Free 75 euro advertising credit on Google Adwords. Many customers also use this with pleasure. They use this to make their first start with advertising their product on our Hosting. With online advertising you usually pay per click on your ad. So your job is to put all your effort into making that one click a sale. To turn that click into a sale hundreds

Open Web Analytics If you have created a beautiful website then of course you want to track how your visitors interact with your site. You can do this by keeping track of the activity via Analytics. There are several programs you can use to do this. The best known is Google Analytics. This is free to use but is not something you can control on your own hosting. It remains property of Google and the source code is not accessible. For customers who like to control their own hosting and statistics

Abandoned domains can cause problems for previous owner Having your own domain is very normal in today's age. Even when you create your own website it is important that you pay attention to security. For example we recently found out that abandoned domains can cause problems for the previous owner as it is very easy to keep track of. The new owner of the domain can take over the email address of the previous owner. This address can then be used to reset passwords online. These accounts may contain

Two-thirds of all email are insecure Sending emails we all do it almost daily. Because so many emails are sent every day you can probably imagine how much spam is sent. A study by the security company called FireEye found that about two out of three emails are insecure. The company analyzed over a billion email messages. This is quite a lot of messages and it was even found that only 32 percent of these emails did not have harmful content. This study also examined email attacks. It turned out that

PHP 7 and its benefits By default with all new hosting packages of MijnHostingPartner.nl the latest available PHP version will be made active. We always give you the freedom to use version 5.6.x and 7.x. This is because not every website works with PHP 7 yet. You can assume that every new website of WordPress Hostingand OpenCart already supports 7.x by default. But why is it important to use the latest PHP versions? There are a number of important reasons why. Let's cover them in this blog post.