Category: Domain Related

October 22, 2014

Domain Related

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If you run a .ca domain or a site that targets Canadian customers, you should look for a Canadian web hosting company. Canadian web hosting companies offer you the right infrastructure, SEO, workforce, and connection speed you need to service Canada web traffic. If you can’t decide on whether or not you want to host in Canada versus another country, here are some reasons why you want to go the Canadian route. Canadian Infrastructure Canadian infrastructure is fast. Fast is what you need for your users. Statistically speaking, you lose a percentage of your traffic for each second that it takes for your website to load. For instance, if your site takes six seconds to load, you can lose up to 50% of your traffic versus losing only 30% of your traffic if it takes 5 seconds to load. In other words, your site should load as quickly as possible. You can’t control the speed of your host’s servers and the backbone network (such as fiber cabling) that connects the host’s data center to the Internet. However, you can choose the right hosting and fast hosting is a part of a Canadian host’s infrastructure. Canadian infrastructure has 100megabit-1gigabit since 2011, which is faster than the average US hosting company. Canadian hosts have the latest in technology as well, so you receive the most up-to-date equipment when purchasing hosting services. Overall, Canada’s Internet services are ranked among the top 10 in the world in terms of speed, reliability and performance. Workforce and Website Support With any website, there comes a time when you need support. Support comes in several forms including account help, technical services and website uptime. All of these issues affect your bottom line, so you should look for a hosting company that offers the best in web hosting support. A good company will offer 100% uptime with 24 hour support, 7 days a week. Something you won’t get from most other web hosting companies outside of Canada is the friendly, courteous support and educated staff. Canadian web hosting staff are highly educated and skilled. Compared to the US, Canada has a better educational system and is ranked in...

October 14, 2014

Domain Related, Hosting Related

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On a Wednesday afternoon in the first week of October 2014 in Palo Alto California, some of biggest names in technology, together many less famous others, were talking with harsh words in response to the ongoing US government surveillance scandal; during a meeting to discuss the potential of the ever creeping state funded spying activities. The event included Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Microsoft's Brad Smith, and Dropbox representative Ramsey Homsany, and a long list of others. Breaking the Internet? They spoke their thoughts on the matter to a Senator from Oregon, Ron Wyden. Google's CEO warned that the impact of all the hyper-surveillance is “severe and getting worse." Fired NSA employee Edward Snowden exposed the US government’s creepy and secretive multi-billion dollar surveillance activities; by coping thousands of official documents (perhaps to a tiny memory card) that clearly outlined the mass surveillance of regular internet user to be far more extensive than the ever-gullible population were aware of. "We're going to wind up breaking the Internet," Google's chief added. World-wide effects and ramifications on the US economy The concerned interests focused on the sequence of issues... read_more after of the uncovering of the massively illegal and unconstitutional mass spying on all of our digital 'effects'. They talked about how some governments are already seeking to make technology companies build their data centers <i>within</i> their borders in order to improve security (from the NSA spies and peeping-toms). The tech companies generally said, if most countries end up following that path the costs would be astronomical would without any doubt damage the US economy. Example fallout from it all has already hit American companies such as Verizon; which recently lost its contract with the German government over concerns about network security. Snowden’s documents pointed out that more than 100 world leaders were swept in for surveillance by the NSA, with German leader Angela Merkel as a leading example. Lack of trust in Ecommerce? Bradly Smith, of Microsoft, raised concerns at the meeting, stating that "in the same way as someone wouldn’t leave their money with a bank they don’t trust, nor would they use an Internet they don’t trust." "The trust element...

October 6, 2014

Domain Related

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Forward: There seems to be quite a lot of confusion around regarding the origin of the internet, which has been around since the 1960s, and began as a US DoD project known as ARPANET, and the origin of world wide web, which has only been around since about 1990. Mr. Berners-Lee, a former employee of CERN and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will". The first web browser and web server was created by Mr. Berners-Lee using a Next workstation. Long before the web, the internet existed in the form of newsgroups, e-mail, and FTP sites for exchanging files. Tim, currently aged 59, is a director at the World Wide Web Consortium ( http://www.w3.org ), a think-tank which publishes guidelines for the future development of the world wide web. So the British man generally mistaken or over-rated “inventor of the internet” is still quite great guy regardless because he is using his status for the protection of internet freedoms. On Saturday the 27th of September, at the London 'Web We Want' festival concerning the future of the internet, he gave a speech asserting that freedom over the internet is under attack/threat by governments and corporations who are in many ways independently and jointly interested in controlling the web; for additional profit and also tightened over-control over all our lives. He called for a “Bill of Rights” that would guarantee all of us independence on the internet and protect end-user privacy. Much like an internet version of the Magna Carta, a famous English charter from the 13th century enshrining and guaranteeing basic rights & freedoms. read_more "If a company can control your access to the internet, if they can control which websites they go to, then they have tremendous control over your life," he went on to say ... "If a Government can block you going to, for example, the opposition's political pages, then they can give you a blinkered view of reality to keep themselves in power. Suddenly the power to abuse the open internet...

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...