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May 13, 2014

Domain Related, Hosting Related, Security

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100+ major tech companies have voiced some opposition in defense from a new proposal from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler that would make concessions to a “pay to play” model of network management; which would allow ISPs to charge companies for preferential treatment. These new rules, which are supposed to be voted on May 15, are anticipated to make a major stand against “net neutrality,” which is the idea of a level playing field for all: ISPs should treat all data that travels over their networks equally. The good principled proposal by Wheeler, a former government lobbyist has been opposed in writing by the likes of Google, Reddit, Facebook, Amazon, and others. The proposal reads that the FCC should *not* permit “individualized bargaining and discrimination.” The Open Internet Order, a prior attempt by the FCC to set forth regulations in favor of net neutrality, was shot down in January by a federal court that stated that it exceeded the FCC’s authority.read_more According to the FCC, the latest plan will prohibit ISPs from operating in a “commercially unreasonable manner to harm the Internet, including favoring the traffic from an affiliated entity.” This obviously ambiguous wording has many concerned that it would be “commercially reasonable” to allow ISPs to charge companies like Netflix or Amazon a premium for better network speeds. There are also some dissenting within the federal agency itself. FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has stood up and said that the rule-making should be postponed for at least a month to give the public at large at least a minimal time to respond to Wheeler’s proposal. Worried what will happen to its clients, web host Neocities is throttling-down connections from the FCC to 28.8kbps modem speeds as announced on the Neocities.org frontpage (by identifying visitors based on the FCC’s internal IP addresses). While it is obvious that anyone at the FCC will find their access to Neocities only a joke, this is in an attempt to demonstrate how treating online companies differently online could make the internet segmented; where users and companies will need to negotiate network speeds with ISPs; rather than simply making everything fast, available, and equal for...

May 6, 2014

Hosting Related, Security, Security Related

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Date posted: May 6th , 2014 An increased number of big tech companies are denying compliance with government with regard to personal data by updating their terms and conditions and other policies. News that raises concern Washington Post has published that many businesses such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft will be notifying their users when their personal data will be asked by the government. They are changing their company policies to suit this. They would comply with such requests only if a judge or other agencies to do so secretly. Many of the protectors of law are concerned that these moves of the company will intimate the criminals before hand and they will try to destroy the evidence of the crimes committed. The government can loose important information on the case. But they need to know that it is criminal and not just on the part of the government to spy on their citizens seeking their personal information. read_more Peter Carr, spokesperson of Justice Department says,“These risks of endangering life, risking destruction of evidence, or allowing suspects to flee or intimidate witnesses are not merely hypothetical, but unfortunately routine.” The tech companies have decided not to pay heed to the guidelines of the subpoenas that ask the tech companies not to inform the users of the data request by the government. This move came after Edward Snowden revealed the spying by NSA last year. As of today, Google notifies users about “legal demands” from government agencies under Google's relevant policy unless prohibited by the court. Kristen Huguet of Apple says, “Later this month, Apple will update its policies so that in most cases when law enforcement requests personal information about a customer, the customer will receive a notification from Apple.” Facebook and Microsoft are reported to have following the leads and take similar steps. As of now, 4GoodHosting has not received any requests from the governments of US or Canada asking for client data. But we'll protect our customers' data and let them know if a customer when the government wants to spy on them.

April 29, 2014

Security Related

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Homeland Security Advises Not to Use Internet Explorer It's very tremendous to come to know about Internet Explorer. Even the government of the United States do not like to use IE until they get a new browser that does not have any problem. The version that brings the problem is version 6 and beyond. These versions enable people with malicious intentions to get into a PC through a bad website. The security firm that deals with these issues is known as "Operation Clandestine Fox" by the Fireeye. The threat is true and is dangerous. The department of Homeland Security in the United States issued security alerts to computer software many times. But this time they acted differently. Multiple number of agencies of the government use IE versions. We advise users to use another internet browser until a new official update is available. Microsoft's schedule will be available until May 13. The company may release an unscheduled update before this date. If you use an unsupported form of Windows such as Windows XP, you'll not get any update. And, if you're looking for hassle free things, choosing Mozilla Firefox could be an optimal solution.

April 22, 2014

SEO Related

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Google claims not to change the search results to make more money According to Matt Cutts, buying or not buying Google AdWords ads has no positive or negative impact on the rankings of your website. He also says that Google does not make changes to the organic algorithms to encourage people to buy ads. Given the fact that Google's result often only show paid ads in the visible area of the search results (i.e. you have to scroll to see the regular results), it seems that this statement of Matt Cutts is not entirely true. There is no secret way to get in the search results Matt Cutts says that there is a pattern that he often sees in SEO forums: Someone suggests a specific tactic will lead to high rankings on Google and then everyone follows. For example, someone says that it is easy to get high rankings through article directories. Half a year later, people will move on from article directories to guest blogging, then to link wheels, and so on. Matt Cutts says that someone who found a loophole wouldn't post it in a forum. Instead, he would exploit it to make as much money of it as possible. You can view the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ9Xt5PohgU How to get your website in Google's search results Getting in Google's search results isn't rocket science. You don't need special tricks or secrets to get your website ranked. You also don't have to hire 'experts' who will charge you thousands of dollar per month. For PPC or SEM (Pay Per Click or Search Engine Marketing) Contact 4GoodHosting. More information at this link: http://4goodhosting.com/seo-services.html say:

April 15, 2014

SEO Related

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Paid search marketing is a quick and easy way to get listed on Google and other search engines for keywords that are related to your business. Unfortunately, paid search marketing is also very expensive. Search engine optimization (SEO) can help you to save money while getting more targeted visitors at the same time. What is the difference between SEO and paid search marketing? SEO (search engine optimization) concentrates on the regular "organic" results on Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines. If your website is listed in the regular results, you don't have to pay for each click. If you use paid search marketing to advertise your website on search engines, you pay for every click. Your website will appear in the "sponsored results" section of the search results page. First SEO advantage: it provides lasting results Paid search marketing is great because it provides quick results. You will get the first visitors minutes after the launch of your paid search campaign. Unfortunately, you won't get any more visitors as soon as you stop paying. To achieve high rankings in the organic search results, you have to develop good web pages and good links that point to your site. It takes much longer to get high rankings with SEO. Fortunately, most websites keep their rankings for a long time. In the long run, SEO is a much better value than paid search marketing. If you have a business that is meant to stay, SEO is the way to go. Second SEO advantage: you're forced to improve your website If you use paid search marketing, your website will get visitors because you pay for them. With SEO, you get website visitors because your website is good. If you use SEO to promote your website, you are forced to optimize your web pages: the content, the usability, etc. Although this requires more work, your website and your revenue will benefit greatly from these changes. Third SEO advantage: it integrates with social media Social media plays an integral role in off page SEO services, serving as a pivotal channel for enhancing the website's visibility and authority. Creating a new page on your website...

April 8, 2014

Hosting Related

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What is Heartbleed bug? A heartbleed bug is one of the biggest and serious threats on the Internet. It's a vulnerability in popular OpenSSL cryptographic library. OpenSSL is a widely used execution of suite of security protocols known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) that helps in encrypting the traffic when surfing the Web. Each time when you send and receive data online or do online an transaction, there will be chance of sending your data through an SSL. You can check if your sending your data through SSL by a “https” with a green indicator or a lock icon in address bar. Some VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) and email, chat programs will also use the systems that are tied to OpenSSL for transmitting communications and data in a secured way. Heartbleed bug is terrifying and unique because it allows anyone to access a computer system memory and read all data (including confidential data), which is protected by vulnerable version of OpenSSL software. What effect it causes? As per, Sam Kottler, a software engineer has worked on numerous open source security and systems management projects (and once worked at Digg), “Anything that you wouldn’t want an ‘Internet bad guy’ to see is Cityfied vulnerable on sites using unpatched versions of OpenSSL.” Things like banking information, credit card data, passwords and titillating personal photos are possibly vulnerable. Essentially, everything that you do on the Internet. Is my data compromised? It is purely on site-by-site basis and we can't say whether your data are compromised or not. Responsible organizations or sites will inform you if they believe that any of your data has been compromised. From your end, be very careful while opening emails and look out for phishing scams. Keep close attention to notifications from credit card companies, internet services and banks and follow security requests if they make any. Do, I need to change passwords? If it is so, when? As far as 4GoodHosting servers are concerned, we have fixed the problem. As the software is widespread, it will take some time for fixing the roll out across web. If you have any queries, you can always easily open a support...

April 1, 2014

SEO Related

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All website owners need more traffic and more sales. Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the best ways to reach these goals. Many people lose a lot of money because they don't invest as much in SEO as they should. They are afraid that SEO is too difficult or not suitable for their company. Here are four reasons why SEO seems hard to some people although it isn't. Reason 1: " I don't know how to optimize my website " Search engine optimization seems complex when you start. It's normal that beginners are confused and uncertain. Fortunately, SEO isn't rocket science. Reading a step-by-step SEO tutorial will familiarize you with the basic concepts of search engine optimization. Even if you plan to hire an SEO agency you should read such a tutorial. If you have a better knowledge, you can judge the level of expertise of the agency that you hire. Reason 2: " I don't have the staff or the time for SEO " This usually means that search engine optimization is not a high priority for your business. That's usually a mistake. Good search engine optimization campaigns can drive a lot of targeted visitors to your website. Good SEO can turn an under-performing website into a cash cow for your business. Consider changing your priorities. High rankings for the right keywords have a direct influence on the sales of your business. Reason 3: " I cannot compete with big brands " Smaller websites can be quicker than big brands. Big companies often take months to change something on their web pages. There are several things that you can do to compete with large brands. * Use better and more targeted keywords that attract better customers. * Make your web page titles and descriptions more attractive so that searchers click on your site in the search results. * Improve your website navigation so that searchers find things more quickly on your site. * Offer something that the big brand does not offer. This can be personal support, better customer service, etc. Reason 4: " I don't get a positive return on investment " Normally, good SEO campaigns pay...

March 25, 2014

SEO Related

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comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) published a monthly analysis of the US search market for February 2014. Following are the key points and the figures correspond to the number of explicit core searches. • Google's sites topped the list with 67.5% (11.9 billion). • Microsoft scored 18.4 % (3.3 billion) • Yahoo sites' scored 10.3 % (1.8 billion). • Ask Network scored 2.4 % (431 million). • AOL, Inc. earned 1.3 % (235 million). In terms of change in points (when compared to January 2014), only Microsoft's sites showed a positive change (up 0.1 %). Google and Yahoo! had a negative change - 0.1 % each. Ask Network and AOL, Inc. showed no change. In terms of percentage change (when compared to January 2014), following were the scores – all had negative scores. • Google's sites: -10 % • Microsoft's sites: -9 % • Yahoo Sites: -10 % • Ask Network: -10 % • AOL, Inc.: -7 % According to comScore, an explicit search involves “user engagement with a search service with the intent to retrieve search results.” And “Explicit Core Search” does not take into consideration 'contextually driven searches'. Contextually driven searches do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results. As for organic search results, Google's score was 69.0 % of the total number of searches and Bing had 27.0 %. About comScore comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in digital measurement and analytics, presents insights on web, mobile and TV consumer behavior to help clients maximize the value of their digital investments. For more information, please visit www.comscore.com/companyinfo. Contact: Adam Lella comScore, Inc. +1 (312) 775-6474 press@comscore.com

March 6, 2014

Hosting Related

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It can take a lot of time to properly research a web host and there is still a certain probability that you may end up with a bad one. The servers may go offline, it may be hard to reach a human being there, they may let their server get overloaded causing it to slow down , or the company could be bought and sold. For those reasons and possibly many more, you might find yourself having to move your website to a good web host; for example 4GoodHosting. ; ) Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform, is is offered by most web hosts; although there a several other popular choices as well. When relocating your Wordpress blog, you will need to go through the following steps. These steps also serve as a general outline for other blogging scripts too: Make/download a backup of your site/blog, including: Theme directories/files Uploads directory Plugins directory read_more Database (you need to export this through mySQL using phpMyAdmin in your hosting account control panel ) Copy your database (“db”) You can do this manually or use a program like phpMyAdmin to explore the database and the import it into your new hosting account using phpMyAdmin in your hosting account control panel. Create an installation of WordPress in your new hosting account. Configure WordPress to use your imported database Upload theme files, uploads and plugins direct directories Test that everything is working correctly. Extra information: WordPress has a built-in export/import tool that you can try instead of this manual method. You will still need to copy your upload directory manually. Make sure you have the latest version of WordPress on both hosting account. Migrating from one version to a different version might cause errors, especially if it involves a major version jump. A bad web host can be a nightmare, but it is not one you have to endure. Find another host and move your blog as soon as you can. Dealing with a negligent web host can be a nightmare; but you don't need to suffer any more. Bring your or your friend's blog or website to 4GoodHosting. We offer free website transfers,...