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It’s likely that no one who has business interests online will be unaware of the size of risk posed by cyberattacks these days. It seems like there’s a new high-profile, large scale one every month or so now and it shows that even though major corporations are spending plenty on cybersecurity it continues to not be enough depending on the nature of the threat and how advanced it may be. Another aspect of it that the average person may not grasp as readily is the fact these attacks often have repercussions that go far beyond just leaked data itself. The one that maybe doesn’t get talked about enough is reputation, as if you’re big enough to be newsworthy when a cyber attack occurs then you’re big enough to have real interests in how your company is regarded in the big picture. There is definitely a risk to your reputation if a cyber attack of any magnitude occurs and you’re left needing to explain how you didn’t have the right level of security in place. Here at 4GoodHosting we’re like any reputable Canadian web hosting provider in that we fully relate to the need for security, and for businesses like ours that has everything to do with servers. One newer solution that businesses can consider is web filtering and using the new SafeDNS service that promises to reinforce your web security efforts in a big way. That’s what we’ll look at here today and go into greater detail about why it is so highly recommended for anyone who would have a lot to lose if a cyber attack were able to make its way through their current defenses. Thwarting Malware Security has to be a foremost concern for businesses of all sizes, especially with more present risks of malware or others when the business is in the process of growing and expanding. And the number of these threats is growing all the time, and the sophistication of them means keeping your business protected online has never been as challenging as it is now. However, there are smart moves you can make. Moves you should make, if we’re going to be plain...

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Uniformity tends to be a good thing the majority of the time, and that can be said no matter what it is we’re talking about. The biggest reason that is true is because it allows people to have expectations about what they’re to experience, and to be able to rely on that experience in and out with every interaction. When it comes to web browsing you don’t even have to be a savvy individual to pick up on how not every page displays or behave the same way based on what browser you’re using. Now of course that would be dependent on you using a different browser, so if you use only one exclusively then this may be something you don’t pick up on. But most of us will move between them for whatever reason, and when we do we notice that it’s rare for pages to be the same based on browser choice. This is something that has been the norm for well over 20 years now, and while it’s not a deal breaker to have this happen there would be something to say for a more consistent web standard. Here at 4GoodHosting we are like any Canadian web hosting provider who can see the appeal of that based on simple visual comfort levels. Even if we are not aware of it there is a calming and soothing part of seeing what we expect to see each time, and we can also understand that if there is any level of new exploration required because a page is displaying / behaving differently then that is definitely undesirable too. So the reason that we’re making this newsworthy is because there is a new 4-way effort underway to establish a more consistent and better web standard. New Standard Apple is working with browser developers Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla to make web design technologies more consistent, and consistent that way independent of what browser people are using. The problem here is that some browsers will have different built-in ways of handling web technologies. So in this sense there isn’t a standard of any sort for the web, and we then have developers, attempting...

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With growing populations come growing demands for resources, and energy is far and away the one of them that humanity is struggling to come up with and allocate fairly here in the 21st century. Much has been made of how power grids are under real strain and particularly in dense urban areas. We know full well that there’s no stopping progress, and so the electricity demands of the digital age need to be accommodated in step with that progress. There are plenty of things your devices – and the data centres behind them – do on a daily basis that adds to a larger ecological footprint because of the amount of power required for them. The data centre part of that is front and center with how those of us here at 4GoodHosting can relate to all of this and in the same way any other good Canadian web hosting provider would. We certainly know how power-intensive data centers can be, and how it’s hard to cut back on power usage when so much of what we rely on is brought forth from those data centers. Which is why this news about Windows Insider build 22567 is noteworthy enough for us to make a blog entry about it. System updates are well know as being major power eaters and there’s a reason you are prompted to have your notebook plugged in before beginning one. What this new Windows 11 update will do is schedule updates for times when the local power grid in your area is drawing energy from more reliable sources, and avoiding times when it is getting them from more traditionally harmful sources. Definitely qualifies as ‘smart’ technology and something that is in line with what most people put a lot of importance on these days, so let’s look at in greater detail. Informed Decisions This will be made possible by Microsoft taking regional data on carbon intensity from sources that publish large-scale electricity use-rate data, and all of this is only possible if your laptop or PC is plugged into an outlet. It can be overruled by choosing to install updates immediately by navigating to Settings >...

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There’s been plenty of instances where we’ve joined in with the consensus and stated that you can’t stop progress, and truth be told we’re of the mindset you wouldn’t want to anyway most of the time. Especially when it comes to anything that can make our workday better and up our productivity – something that is important if you’re working for yourself or for somebody else in an employee capacity. And for so many of us that involves working in the digital realm on personal computing devices. So it’s here that we are looking at the benefits of a USB-C Hub Monitor, and of course the primary and most obvious reason they are a practical choice at the very least is because nowadays so many of us need to run peripherals from our main device. External power bricks may have been the norm for a while now, but we’re willing to guess they’re going to start making their way towards obsolescence. And that’s a good thing as less is always more and preferable when it comes to any desktop workstation. All this resonates with us here at 4GoodHosting in the same way it would with any Canadian web hosting provider given the way our work puts the same premium on efficiency and getting a good job done as quickly but thoroughly as possible. So let’s spend this entry looking at what makes USB-C Hub Monitors such a good choice for anyone who’s not sitting at their desk because they could be doing something different. Smart Upgrade A USB-C hub monitor is every bit a smart upgrade for your home office. They remove the need for numerous cords from your desk and rather than connecting peripherals to your PC, you can instead connect them directly to the monitor to connect to your PC over USB-C. Desktops get added functionality too, but it is laptops that benefit most from USB-C. They can act as both a video cable and power cable in and that means you don’t have to have the device’s standard power adapter resting on the desktop or hanging to floor beside it. Most who own a USB-C compatible laptop...

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To lean on something means to rely on it, and with that understood it is fair to say companies are leaning on big data more and more by the day. All of this was foreseen with the way digital connectivity was revolutionizing business 20+ years ago, but here we are now with data centre capacity being more of an issue than ever before. The demand for chips that can meet to those capacity needs has been negatively impacted by the worldwide chip shortage going on right now, and that’s a reflection of just how much of private, public, and municipal life has gone digital. This is something that any web hosting in Canada provider can relate to, as most will be like us at 4GoodHosting in that we’ve invested in data centre expansions so that we have them in different major regions of the country, and BC and Ontario when it comes to us. It’s an essential part of us being able to offer the uptime guarantees we do with our Canadian web hosting packages. It’s elementary that we have an understanding of the data and collocation centres, and as such recent news of Intel’s new Xeon roadmap is definitely something given what the chipmaker giant is aiming for. Intel has revealed ambitious plans to establish a degree of dominance in the data centre chip landscape in the immediate future. They have recently revealed their multiyear Xeon roadmap for the next few years, including the heralded Sapphire Rapids, with a ground breaking new chip built on Intel's 7 process which is estimated to boost AI performance by a massive 30x. Better serving tech always sound really good around here, so let’s spend this week’s entry looking at the new Intel data center chip and all that it may offer to improve user experiences. Rapid Expansions This new chip is going to be an introductory offering that will be followed by Emerald Rapids. The follow-up Emerald chip is also built on Intel 7 and should arrive in 2023, and then again with Sierra Forest built on Intel 3 set to come out in 2024. We’re also seeing Intel planning to move...

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There’s seemingly no stopping the trend that every new day we are facing the greatest risks ever seen when it comes to being online, and that’s why cybersecurity in an ongoing big deal for both individuals and organizations. No one likes to be the recipient of malware or to have their private information exposed when they are just going about their day to day online, but it’s a very real possibility. Companies that make digital products should be proactive in making sure those products are safe to use when connected to the web, but that is something that’s been slow to come around on a grander scale. Fortunately now it is though, and major ones like Google, Apple, and Microsoft have been much better about finding the right preventative fixes and making them available to people in a timely manner. Here at 4GoodHosting we are like any quality Canadian web hosting provider in that we can relate to the importance of security patches being made available, especially for ones that have no choice but to handle sensitive data provided by customers or business associates when working together with them. Nowadays as cybersecurity threats becomes more pronounced and far reaching, the means of addressing and thwarting them is advancing in step better than at any time before. 93.4% Fix Rate New research from Google indicates companies are getting much better at fixing security vulnerabilities found in their products. Many firms also now taking less time to address various issues along with going past their established deadlines for patch fixes less frequently than in previous years. Project Zero is Google’s team of security analysts tasked with finding zero-day vulnerabilities. These are unknown or unpatched flaws that can be abused through malware. The team recently published a blog post pointing out 376 issues it found between 2019 and 2021 and then detailing how vendors responded to the findings, and what the overall successes of those responses meant for overall cybersecurity in the digital realm. Of those 376 issues, 351 of them (93.4%) have been fixed and only 14 (3.7%) have not had any type of fix applied to them. 11 (2.9%) remain active...

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100 billion is an incredibly big number, and yet a fully developed human brain can have up to as many as 100 billion neurons in it as part of the extensive neural network that provides the brain with the framework it needs to be the amazing mega processor that it is. Much of the focus with A.I. in computers has been to replicate the function of the human brain as best as possible, and to date that’s happened with varying measures of success along with difficulty in measuring the criteria for that. The key conduits in a brain’s neural network are synapses, and these are literally the bridges between cells along which bioelectrical impulses provide cognitions, impulses, feelings – pretty much and everything and anything that you might have rooted in mental function. Those impulses have their roots in the different cortex centres of the brain, and in much the same way they are found in the chips of computers and the sort. Up until now the relaying function of these chips lost something of its power and authenticity, but that may be a shortcoming that has a fix possibly arriving soon. New developments of chips modeled after the brain’s neural network are really making waves based on what they can do for expanding on the capabilities of computing devices. Here at 4GoodHosting it goes without saying that this is a topic of interest for any Canadian web hosting provider or any other type of provider that has inherent interests when it comes to making devices capable of more while keeping them suitably compact and usable. It’s certainly something that can reach out and be beneficial to everyone, especially when you think about what it’d be like to have computers that are as sharp as what we’re all lucky enough to have between our ears. It may be a reality in the not-too-distant future, and so that’s what we are going to look at this week. World’s First Electrochemical 3-Terminal Transistor All of this has to do with a new material that has been developed, an electrochemical 3-terminal transistor manufactured with 2D materials. The key component here is a titanium...

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Web security has improved in leaps and bounds over recent years, but as is always the case the interests on the other side of the fence have made their own advancements. Many people have been inclined to ask around what exactly is in it for the people who create malware and put it out there for infecting a person’s computing device, but as has been determined – and not surprisingly – it’s all about money like anything else. There’s a very complex network of interests there, and the long and short of it is that people benefit from having your computer, notebook, or mobile compromised very underhandedly. And so it is that much of what makes the Cloud the godsend it has been for digital professionals is also what makes it the #1 risk factor for being infected with malware. In many ways it is a classic example of having no choice but to take the bad with the good, and it appears the competition between malware makers and cyber security experts is going to continue full tilt for the foreseeable future. Here at 4GoodHosting we’re equally big fans of the Cloud in the same way it is for any good Canadian web hosting provider who has a seat that’s conducive to seeing digital advances in the clearest of lights. Further, you can’t stop progress and there’s no debate we’ll be looking to get more out of cloud computing so that extensive physical storage isn’t allowed to be as harmful as it would otherwise. So yes, we are all very much taking the good with the bad these days and many people will have already had one or more unpleasant experiences with malware. Let’s look at this finding that most malware downloads are delivered via the cloud, why that might be, and what are the potential ramifications of it all for the average business or organization. 2/3 of All for 2021 A recent Netskope report based on the 2021 year found that no less than two-thirds of malware downloads were based in cloud apps. This puts a spotlight on the continued growth of malware and other malicious payloads that make...

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Even if you don’t have the most dextrous fingers or type especially quickly you are probably like everyone else in the way that doing your job probably involves typing on a keyboard. But these days as we all know keyboards are for so much more than just pressing keys to enter text and we use them in many other ways to make personal computing more efficient. Customization and greater functionality is the name of the game with all computing components. Mechanical keyboards offer this and they’re not new to the market, but until recently they’ve been quite expensive and not as widespread available. That’s soon to change and nearly everyone who uses a keyboard for work or on a regular basis is likely going to be quite thrilled with the new mechanical keyboards. They will likely stay on the pricey side, but for some people it will be a price well worth it if it increases the productivity of their work day and gets rid of nuisances they used to find with their old conventional keyboard. This makes the cut as newsworthy here at 4GoodHosting in the same way we imagine it would for any other good Canadian web hosting provider, as it’s something that nearly everyone can relate to. That’s going to be true if you’re anything from a web master to a data entry clerk or a university student with plenty of papers to write. So what’s the fuss and what can be expected with this new and vastly improved generation of mechanical keyboards? All About Customization The ability to customize these keyboards is what makes them so great. What they offer is a level of personalization that can transform your everyday typing experience into a much more pleasurable experience as well as facilitating greater productivity on your part. The best of features with new-technology mechanical keyboards starts with the keycaps on top of switches. They communicate key presses to the PCB and when contact is made between a switch and the PCB then it is the PCB that transmits the input to the computer and this allows the key to deliver much more detailed digital information if...

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It was inevitable that eventually data was going to become Big data, and the increasingly digital nature of being in business and doing business is ensuring that trend just becomes more and more pronounced all the time. The catch as been in being able to make data available to partner organizations while still safeguarding the privacy interests anyone may have in the data being shared, and one of the more interesting things on the horizon early in 2022 is data clean room software. With data leaks and the fallout of them being so often in the news it’s easy to see why we can relate to the need for this here at 4GoodHosting. Like any quality Canadian web hosting provider we have smaller level customers who may well see the promise of this for their online business or venture too. Many companies are in the process of looking for equally effective ways to collect, share and analyze data without compromising on privacy. This also goes well beyond compliance, as companies that can incorporate this new technology and then be able to turn to any user interest group and give them 100% assurance to data security is going to be at an immediate advantage. Demand for such a resource has been growing over recent year, and it may be that with data clean rooms it’s about to become attainable and commonplace. So what is the hype about, and what exactly is a data clean room? That’s what we’re going to look at with this week’s entry. What’s a Data Clean Room? A data clean room is a piece of software that allows brands and their partners to share data and gain mutual insights without compromising the privacy of the users’ data. Specifically it means not sharing any personally identifiable information or raw data with one another and in this way the data clean room serves as something of a neutral 3rd-party in major level affairs much like Switzerland would be if you wanted to use a geopolitical analogy. At present there are 2 primary types of data clean room solutions available in the sharttech industry: The first ones are called walled...

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