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
Last week a new type of malware was discovered that targets Linux servers the virus then focuses on spreading a cryptominer. The virus has been named SpeakUp and is new Trojan horse and is now operating mainly on Linux servers in China. How it is spread Of course when it comes to things like this it's always useful to know how such a virus spreads and what any risks are. The malware is spread by the PHP framework called ThinkPHP here they exploit vulnerabilities in the framework to get onto 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
Running your own buisiness is not an easy task as you have to do a lot of things at once and keep your customers happy. Think about answering emails phone calls complaints and many other things. If you have your own business then this might sound familiar if you also have to maintain your hosting then this can be quite tiring. You might be wondering how to do this do you take care of it yourself or do you hire a professional to do it for you. This is obviously a difficult choice to make but luckily
If you use our hosting then you will probably have come across it already. In this blog post we will cover FTP one of the most commonly used methods to move files. We are going to explain in this blog post what exactly FTP is and how you can use it. What is FTP FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and it is a method used to send files from a client (local) to a server. At MijnHostingPartner it is so that if you use this method you can place your local files in your web environment. You can use
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
