Posted by Ylber Popaj
For the most part, people from all over the world want to have a top-notch website. In order to get your website done, there is no need to spend a good deal of time on building your website. Actually, there is a wide range of online-projects that you can launch these days. You may dream of getting a stylish blog, user-friendly eCommerce online-project or eye-catching business website. In all of these cases, a ready-made website template can turn out to be your perfect assistant.
As you can understand, an impressive website means a lot in the 21st century. Read More
Posted by Stacey Talieres
To follow up with our latest article, besides CBT Locker Ransomware affecting WordPress websites, this past month many internet users experienced another well known ransomware program called WannaCry. This malicious program would encrypt files by adding .WCRY to the end of the files. Those affected were threatened to pay a ransom of $300 in bitcoins. If those infected did not comply the amount would double eventually leading up to the deletion of the infected files.
As of May 12th, Europe experienced the worst of WannaCry. The United Kingdom was a huge target suffering major losses in their healthcare industry. Read More
Posted by Ylber Popaj
WordPress is a powerful platform. In fact, it’s so powerful that it runs 25% of the all the websites today. Given how easy it is to build a website with WordPress, it’s no surprise that the platform is popular with beginners.
HOWEVER!
Due to the nature of how simple it is to start a website with WordPress, many beginners often ignore performing basic security measures to keep themselves safe from being attacked by hackers.
As a business owner, you can’t overlook how important security is for your website. Read More
Posted by Ylber Popaj
Plesk has recently added a few Plesk Toolkits that might have a massive influence on your customer experience. Here is a breakdown on what’s new.
Lets get started!
This toolkit is one of the most outstanding features of them all. First and foremost, it utilizes the world’s most popular CMS, WordPress. Plesk describes it as, “the most complete, secure and versatile toolkit for WordPress.” The most notable CMS feature is its user-friendliness and simplicity; the Plesk WordPress toolkit takes that even further. Read More
Posted by Ylber Popaj
Two Factor Authentication is a super effective and easy to setup security measure. This cPanel feature provides an additional layer of security by requiring a code authentication upon a successful login attempt. So, after logging into WHM with the correct username and password, you would be prompted to input a code generated by an authentication application like Google Authenticator. In this blog post, we will help you activate Two-Factor Authentication and explain the benefits of using it.
The initial process begins in your Web Host Manager (WHM). Read More
Posted by Ylber Popaj
Without a GUI, servers must be configured and operated through SSH, which requires extensive knowledge of command line syntax. Control panels provide a centralized and intuitive way to manage your servers.
Bread Basket, which is included for free with InterServer VPS plans, take the tedium out of having to type line after line of commands — after all, webmasters are humans, not robots.
InterServer’s customized control panel is designed for maximum usability and cost savings. While competitors often charge additional fees for control panel access, Bread Basket allows users to easily deploy hundreds of cloud applications at no extra cost. Read More
Posted by Ylber Popaj
You may have become familiar with our InterShield blog posts. It has become a special security series of ours which serves of high importance to us and Web Hosting our customers. Due to its ongoing success and popularity, we have decided to describe the step by step process of which InterShield follows.
A request to access a website comes in, someone has entered http://domain.com into a browser.
Using litespeed web-server and the RBL rule, Interserver InterShield queries our own internal RBL blacklist. This blacklist contains known bad ips; ips that have been blocked for bad activity, hacking, uploading malware and a number of other activities. Read More
Posted by Ylber Popaj
With massive data breaches hitting the world’s largest brands, website owners may often wonder how well they’d fare against online threats: “If global corporations are having trouble keeping up with web security, how could I stand a chance to stay secure?”
Fortunately, online security isn’t restricted to the wealthiest, most high-traffic sites. Web hosting companies protect themselves and customers by locking down every possible aspect of their infrastructure and clients’ environments. Here are some of the most common tools reputable hosts will offer customers:
Fortunately, InterServer includes all the above with its standard shared hosting plan. Read More
Posted by Ylber Popaj
InterServer’s InterShield system is able to stop many attacks and updates daily based on new data including new possible malware, known exploits and other Common Vulnerabilities. However, sometimes even with all these a new type of malware comes up.
In a recent case a site was redirecting to a pharmacy website but only when coming from a google search engine result. The site initially passed all scans of known vulnerabilities, the url did not exist in the code or database and it was reproducible. In this cases advanced debugging is needed. Read More
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