Category: Domain Related

September 10, 2014

Domain Related

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Hi everyone! Before the end of next week - we are partnering with SpamExperts(.com) to bring our customers one of the best enterprise-level anti-spam solutions. Next to telephone calls, email communication is certainly the next most important type of communication in today’s busy business world. But as you and everyone else knows, spam, or otherwise unwanted types of email, is only detrimental to our personal communication and individual productivity when reading our inboxes. Internet scammers are motivated by the dreams of easy money or perhaps simply mischievousness. So utilizing an anti-spam + anti-virus filter is pretty much a 'must have' for any email intensive organization today. That is why 4GoodHosting engaged in a partnership with SpamExperts to provide a new time-saving cutting-edge value-added service for you and your website account users. We are now working on securing you from spam emails, virus attachments, phishing scams, and malware attacks! read_more We had a solution in place from years before, as you might have noticed in your cPanel, but we noticed that the performance of that service was degrading with time. But, now we are fixing that for good! Through SpamExpert's ingenious server-side software which we are running on our servers in both datacenters, Vancouver and Toronto, the SpamExperts enterprise application acts as a middle-man with proprietary artificially intelligent technology to *filter* all incoming email before it comes into anyone's inbox; therefore eliminating spam before it reaches your eyes! SpamExpert's enterprise-capable anti-spam network spanning the globe is a direct result of scanning millions of emails every second of every day; all the while detecting new patterns and identifying malicious email instantly. The aggregate intelligence is shared real-time with 4GoodHosting; assuring instantaneous protection against new variants of spam. This will be included in all our shared hosting accounts at no additional charge. Our hosting prices are set to remain the same for the foreseeable future. Better email continuity and delivery, with no more than an extra second of delivery delay. The new protective overlay of the SpamExperts incoming email filter to our email flow infrastructure actually *adds* redundancy and continuity to your email delivery process. How? If for any reason your mail server...

August 11, 2014

Domain Related

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Dear 4GoodHosting customer, now google is suggesting that everyone buy a SSL certificate for their website; in yet another way they are declaring it will soon give websites a small boost in rankings. They are using this with the excuse that such websites are less vulnerable to giving up site passwords via unencrypted network traffic that your website generates as pages traverse across the internet. We are not excited nor promoting this; hoping that we sell more SSL certificates to our customers. We generally think google has too much power already to be calling such absurd shots anyhow. And we barely make any profit on our SSLs, as they are already priced quite near rock bottom. http://4goodhosting.com/sslcertificates.html We however, just want to express on our blog, not only this 'insight' into google's next ranking algorithm, but we just want to show you a sampling of how a lot of people out there feel about this 'non-content'-related google search engine ranking factor: List of some intelligent and eloquent tweets on the topic: The information on my site wouldn’t change if it were switched to https, so should https really be a ranking signal? — Bill Slawski (@bill_slawski) I wonder how many people at Google today are laughing at everyone ready to jump through hoops again. Next “Now we want floating snowflakes.” — Melissa Fach (@SEOAware) Google launches domain registrar. Google encourages use of SSL for SEO that are a massive pain to buy. Next, Google starts selling SSL… — Ben Hall (@Ben_Hall) read_more Should have invested in the SSL company instead of sinking all my money into that lousy Google authorship photo service. — Cyrus Shepard (@CyrusShepard) I suspect it won’t be long before we start seeing secure certificate ads with “Get your Google ranking boost with our SSL certs!” — Jennifer Slegg (@jenstar) Today is a day I wish I was in the SSL Certificate business. — lorenbaker (@lorenbaker) Wonder what graph of SSL certificate sales will look like June-Sep for providers — Chris Gilchrist (@hitreach) @RavenJon if G was really that behind SSL, they’d allow us to switch our sites without it being considered a site “move” #justsayin —...

July 28, 2014

Domain Related, Hosting Related

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The time has come. You decide to redesign one of your website’s pages or just a part of a page or three. Now do you want to spend unknown number of hours writing new code? Most likely not. That is why a hosted website builder application is a good tool for anybody who has a website and and need to make occasional changes. If you want to move one of your website's page objects, such as an image or a video, using a 'sitebuilder' you simply drag it to its new spot and drop it into place. This does not require any coding knowledge and takes just a few seconds. Having a website is one of the first steps towards business growth and success. It is pretty much imperative for most every business to have an attractive and easy to use website to promote their services and products. However, developing a website from scratch is a time-consuming task. No need to feel bad. Most people lack basic knowledge of web designing and all the various commercial or shareware utilities and tools with which a website is created. Even less people have code programming and editing skills. But if you want to have a professional looking website for your business without spending a week or three learning HTML and/or PHP, etc., then an online website builder can quickly come to your project's rescue. The clear advantages of working with an Hosted Website Builder ( link: 4GH Website Builder ) 4GoodHosting is one such host that offers a website builder with 100+ business templates pre-populated with relevant text, images and navigation; and each one displays on-screen ready to edit. Small businesses can realize their vision and complete their website quickly. Intuitive WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editing and drag-and-drop design modules help enable success for people of all skill levels. read_more The first step is to select a template, typically from the categorized listing of templates by business type. Next is to insert your custom content in it, text, images, videos, slideshows, music, etc. The next step is to 'publish' your changes after your updates. No FTP program is...

July 15, 2014

Domain Related, Hosting Related

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There are various reasons and benefits that your website will get when you get a hosting service from Canada when compared other countries, especially the United States. The first and foremost reason is that, as a Canadian, choosing a service from Canada, you keep your dollars in Canada. This amount is small but the act shows you are loyal to your country. Yet there are some other points that you need to consider. One of the top most reasons that come to many people around the world as an effect of Snowden NSA-leaks is data and personal privacy. Hence, 80% of Internet traffic is routed through US servers and 8/10 of the Internet fiber optic bone links flow in and out of US. It is difficult to have the data and usage guarded totally by NSA surveillance as of today. However, having your website files stored within Canada, and the ability to directly connected to your local Canadian webserver., reduces the chance that your personal information has been read and/or stored by state-actor spies or otherwise malicious entities. Today, many Asian, American, European and Middle-Eastern companies are looking for Canadian web hosting service providers for hosting their business applications and mission-critical websites. The reasons vary across companies, but since 2012 and 2013 4GoodHosting is consistently signing up more customers from US and other countries and it's only been speeding up. read_more 4GoodHosting is completely operated and owned by Canadian citizens. Two of the data centers are situated in Toronto and Vancouver. Canada is a politically stable country and has not seen any majorly damaging earthquakes over 300 years. It has rarely seen power outages and high energy costs as are in California and in other states of the United States. When we consider world wide, Canada is a well-known leader in complex Internet technology and tele-communication. Clients of Canada web hosting companies can have significant advantages like faster loading times, which is a direct result of utilizing a web hosting provider from Canada. Though it is hard to resist the US and other overseas companies with their bait of rock-bottom prices offered, don't overlook Canadian hosting option as Canadian companies...

May 20, 2014

Domain Related, Hosting Related, Security

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Net Neutrality is an Important Topic Today 'Net Neutrality' is a widely discussed topic today. Therefore, we feel it's right explain to our customers for more clarity. We found http://www.theopeninter.net/ to be useful. It helps you grasp complex issues easily. Network neutrality implies websites and services should be able to generate equal satisfaction among users across devices: cable, cellular, or via phone connection. Companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast intend to consider each site and service differently so that they can sell their services at different prices to different users. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing a law to frame limits for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). This is likely to result in keeping the Internet accessible to all - without discriminating any websites or services. If the Internet is offered via cable connections and bills, it might become hard to restore as it's today. We should build completely an independent Internet service. Make sure to inform your friends and family.

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...

February 11, 2014

Domain Related, Hosting Related, SEO Related

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Singapore has the highest number of IPv6 certified engineers as well as the highest percentage of IPv6 capable networks (38.57 percent) compared to other countries around the world, according to an infographic released on Monday. Network Utility Force, an organization that provides IPv6 training and IPv6 network design and implementation, released the infographic to provide a look at the IPv6 migration landscape and some challenges in IPv4 exhaustion this year. “Based on our IPv6 work to date, including work for our current customers, 2014 appears to be the year ARIN will have no more IPv4 addresses to allocate,” Brandon Ross, co-founder, CEO and Chief Network Architect of Network Utility Force said. “To that end, we expect 2014 to be a growth year for IPv6 migrations and deployments, and thus, forecasting and budgeting at the beginning of the year will be important, as engineering resources are limited.” While Network Utility Force has an obvious motive for releasing the infographic, it does provide an interesting look at international adoption of IPv6. According to the infographic, IPv4 addresses will be depleted by December 2014. read_more