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Your own website and the hosting that comes with it are of course extremely important. Most people will therefore always try to keep their website online as much as possible. There are several things you should do to make sure your website is online as much as possible. In this blog post we will also go through what exactly you can do to prevent as much downtime as possible. Updates Updates are extremely important for your website especially for a CMS like WordPress. These updates often contain

In our previous blog post we went through how to maintain your website. Maintenance also contributes to the security of your website after all you don't want your website to be abused. For this reason we decided to make a follow-up blog post of this topic. In this blog post we will talk about how you can make your website a lot safer. Hide your admin page For WordPress hosting this is an excellent option because you can find out the admin page very easily. You can reach the WordPress admin page

Most people who are familiar with hosting are probably already familiar with let's encrypt certificates. These are free SSL certificates that you can activate for your websites. It has been shown that in the last 4 years more than 1 billion free certificates have been delivered. Let's encrypt Let's encrypt delivered the first certificate in September 2015 and reached a milestone of 100 million certificates in June 2017. Since last year let's encrypt has been delivering more than 1 million certificates

The fact that WordPress is widely used is already known to almost everyone by now. This is mainly due to the fact that WordPress is freely accessible and easy to learn. This makes it one of the most popular systems and makes it a popular target for malicious people. It is therefore important that you always keep everything as up to date as possible. It can also happen that despite everything being up to date certain plug-ins are still abused. For example 3 popular plug-ins that are used frequently

Most people consider their own privacy and security to be extremely important and therefore like to protect their data. It can't always be easy to protect it sometimes you don't even know where to start. For example if you have a web shop then it is also important to protect the data on your hosting. In this blog post we will go through exactly how you can best protect your privacy on the Internet. Passwords Perhaps one of the most important things you should take into account is your passwords.

In 2019 the SIDN took almost 4500 fake stores offline. They managed this thanks to a self-learning detection tool developed by SIDN Labs. With this tool Dutch domain registrations are continuously scanned. It looks for features that are more often found in fake webshops. For example no contact option no KVK number no reviews suspicious domain names etc. This self-learning tool turns out to be very good as it achieves a security percentage of 79.3 percent. How do I recognize fake stores? As a consumer

Most people who are on the Internet are probably familiar with various scam methods. These include scam methods such as phishing phone scams and many others. Domains are also often used for scams such as sending phantom invoices. We have recently received more and more reports from our customers. You will be approached by a party called "DNS Service NL" with an invoice for your domain. If you receive an email from this party it is recommended to ignore it and block the sender. How do I recognize

Most people who are on the Internet are probably familiar with various scam methods. These include scam methods such as phishing phone scams and many others. Domains are also often used for scams such as sending phantom invoices. We have recently received more and more reports from our customers. You will be approached by a party called "DNS Service NL" with an invoice for your domain. If you receive an email from this party it is recommended to ignore it and block the sender. How do I recognize

Most people nowadays download something from the Internet fairly often. You can think of different things pictures movies files and so on. Often you will not pay attention to whether the download is over http or https. In the future Google Chrome will block downloads over http. In general this will not make much difference to you unless you have files on your Hosting that you can only download over http. It is advisable to change this as soon as possible to https this can be done with an SSL certificate.