Category: Hosting Related

June 17, 2014

Hosting Related, SEO Related

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With Google's recent algorithm updates, webmasters have started believing that links no longer work and it does not matter to Google anymore. But the truth is, links are the most crucial element in Google’s ranking algorithm and it is really important to have the right links if you want your website to rank high and attract more visitors. Google’s Matt Cutts has also stated that links are very essential if you want to rank high. From transcript: “Backlinks are a really, really big win in terms of quality for search results [... ] backlink relevance still really helps in making sure we return the best, most relevant, most topical set of search results.” This was confirmed by Matt Cutts in another video: Last month, Matt Cutts confirmed this in another video: read_more From transcript: “Backlinks still have many, many years left in them [...] for the next few years, will continue to use links in order to assess the basic reputation of pages and websites.” Link building can be difficult, but it is required. If you do not do it the way it has to be done, then link building can get you penalized. It is important to know, in and out about link building if you are looking for success. Better not use spam automated link building tools and services that can create backlinks in abundance. It will not do good for you. Link building and link spamming are different from each other. With link spamming your website is likely to get penalized and link building will get your website on top of Google’s search results. Though having great content in your website is important, but if the web page does not have good backlinks, your web page will not be noticed. How to get these good links? Good links attract targeted visitors to your website. Links that are of value will not only increase engine rankings, but will automatically attract real visitors. Though, link building is time-consumptive, it is worth it. The journey through the intricate world of backlinks reveals one undeniable truth: backlinks are still a vital part of SEO. From their historical significance to their evolving...

June 10, 2014

Hosting Related, Security, Security Related

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It has been roughly a year back the truth that US national security agency NSA has been accumulating huge amounts of personal data on American and other international citizens secretly. This year, a year after Edward Snowden leaked the documents on how and to what extent government has collected huge amounts of personal data, he has become an icon of the movement that demands more transparency from government agencies when they are using Internet technologies for the purpose of surveillance. However, transparency is just a one-way street in that regard to this heavily corrupted and non-constitutional government. They want to know everything you are doing but they want you not to know how they are spying on you, and are secretive in dozens if not hundreds of other ways. Dauntless and strident calls for reforms in government government surveillance are coming from the companies that hold large amount of customer and client data on the Web. The compulsions come in the form of threats of prosecution through court orders issued by the Foreign International Surveillance Court. The orders seek the information without intimation of such a move to the customer. This sounds like the Nazi era during World War II. The companies who are responsible for personal data are working over strengthening their security backbone through encryption of customer's data at least at some key junctions. The move came after NSA managed to intercept customer data flowing between various private data centers of Google. read_more Tech companies are of the view that government can take considerable steps to safeguard the consumer's data and protect them from unreasonable access to government agencies. But in contrast, government seems to be working in violating the 4th amendment rather than protecting it. An interest group named Reform Government surveillance is working to bring together the large hitech companies like Google, Yahoo, Apple, Dropbox, Microsoft and others to address the government to help them in bringing back the lost faith in their Internet user community. They believe that the surveillance of the government should be constricted by clearly demarcated by laws and the laws should be transparent. They should be proportional to the risks and...

June 3, 2014

Hosting Related, SEO Related

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Millions of websites have began lost their rankings after the update. Has your website affected? Perhaps your ranking went up as others float down? What can you do to avoid new ranking problems? According to several recent reports, major sites such as ask.com (competition to google), ebay.com, biography.com and aceshowbiz.com have lost as much as 70% of their rankings on Google. It seems that the content (often automatically server generated) of these web pages is not appetizing for Google's new ranking algorithms. How does this affect your web pages? If your website mainly consists of quite similar pages, it's likely that your site will be affected by Google's new ranking manipulations and similarly if the content/structure of your pages has been created automatically or 'dynamically'. These algorithms now additionally target webpage spam. If you do not get too spammy with your pages, you shouldn't have to worry much. If you want to get long-term results, do not use spammy methods to promote your website. Use 'white-hat' methods and play by the rules. Your website's Google rankings will be much more stable then. Please contact us for more information: http://4goodhosting.com/seo-services.html

May 27, 2014

Hosting Related

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Are you planning to bring a new design to your website? Or for redesigning and worried of how to start? If so, you need to read this article. In this article, we'll discuss concepts that you should consider before you design or redesign your website. When thinking about your website design, sketch regularly The benefits of sketching is you can note your clients' requirements accurately. Sketching helps you organize the content, you can structure the concepts that the client requires and some other aspects related to web designing. Make a brief blueprint or the algorithm before you start designing the website. It'll cost nothing and it is very easy - just you need to have the basic knowledge of sketching. Making a blueprint of web designing is also one of the finest approaches to convey your ideas about the layouts. By making a blueprint before you start web designing process will give you new ideas. Sketching also helps you get new ideas instantly and by this, you can save time. read_more If you directly experiment with models or codes, it would be difficult. Sketching is a very easy task and you can create it with ease, only you know is how to draw boxes, curved lines, arrows, etc. The boxes, curved lines, etc., are the fundamental tools. Sketching makes it simple to draft a design. For sketching, you don't even need to have an art degree. Of course, you can communicate with clients clearly about the blueprint and the whole process behind the design. You need not struggle for a good artwork. Designing isn't just visual Designing is not just the appearance; it is the complete experience from the time the users visit your site to until they leave. Design represents 'how' and 'why' people or clients want to use the website, the communication between hover, click (and touch on portable devices); even including the speed at which the site loads up. All these concepts constitute design, because design is more than just the visual condition, and it represents the total experience and even every person on project even the designer. Designs should focus on users Your site visitors are...

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...

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 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...

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,...