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If you use a lot of passwords on the Internet then you may have stored them somewhere. This could be in your browser in a text file on a piece of paper or in a program like Last Pass. Mozilla will soon come out with their own password manager called Firefox Lockbox and this app will soon be available for Android. This Android app synchronizes with the data stored in your web browser so you can save the passwords of your hosting also on your Android phone. If you need your password quickly you can

If you have a web store then it is obvious that you do as much as possible to make your website as secure as possible. This applies to both your website itself and its database. If these are not properly secured a malicious user can easily extract the data. For example there are researchers from a VPN company who extracted various data from a database of a Chinese web store. After this intrusion the researchers were able to view various data including orders payment passwords and passport information.

If you have a website you want the data on it to be secure. This is not only nice for you but if your users know this it will also give them a safe feeling. One of the ways to show this to your users is by using a SSL certificate on your hosting. With a SSL certificate you have the ability to connect through https and then you also get a green lock at your domain. If your users see this lock they know that their data is safely stored on your website. This not only gives your users a secure feeling

Drupal users should start updating soon The Content Management system Drupal is one of the better known systems in the world of hosting. At the moment there are more than 1 million users that use Drupal the majority of them are still using Drupal 7. Approximately 70 percent still use Drupal 7 however this version gets an end of life status in 2021 this means that there will be no more support and security updates. What are the consequences of this? When you want to continue using Drupal 7 there

Everyone knows the program Internet Explorer it is on your computer by default and you can easily access the Internet with it. Earlier this week Microsoft posted a blog post advising companies to stop using Internet Explorer. So in this blog post we will cover a bit of the history of Internet Explorer and why Microsoft advises against using it. For your Hosting it is still important that you test your website in every browser this includes Internet Explorer. The history of Internet Explorer Internet

If you are using commercial hosting then it is important that you can track how many visitors you have on your website. You can track this in different ways such as using Google Analytics but also Matomo. In this blog post we will discuss both. Google Analytics Google Analytics is probably the best known of all these tools and displays the statistics in a clear and easy way. Google Analytics is mainly meant to give the owner or administrator of the website a clear and concise picture of where the

If you are using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox then you probably already have an adblocker installed. This not only removes annoying advertisements but also blocks certain pop-ups. At MijnHostingPartner.nl we were already very enthusiastic about the Brave web browser but since we have heard this news we are even more motivated to use the Brave browser. What is the advantage of the Brave browser? The Brave browser is a free open source web browser that is made with the Chromium framework this

The company behind the Opera web browser has a feature in the latest Android version that allows you to disable ads. So you actually have a built-in adblocker in the web browser which is of course very nice when you're surfing the Internet. More and more browsers seem to do this earlier we made a blog post about the Brave browser this also blocks ads and trackers. Privacy is becoming more and more important More and more people are finding their own privacy increasingly important and that is only

If you use a business website then you will probably have done it before making backups is very important. You can do this in different ways in this blog post we will go through what the different methods are to make a good backup. Via FTP If you are already experienced in the world of hosting then you have probably heard of the term FTP. This is a technique of transferring files from a client to a server using a program this is something that is often used to place local files on a server. You