Category: Security

January 27, 2025

Domain Related, Hosting Related, Security, Server

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One of the most crucial components for a website is a server where your website’s data is stored and served when someone visits your website—this is what makes web hosting so vital to the running of your site. But have you ever stopped to think about where that server sits? You may believe that hosting your website in another country isn’t a big deal, but that could be putting your business in risk without your knowledge A Canadian based free hosting provider you can trust — With 4GoodHosting you're offered much more than just space on a server, And that's a welcomed piece of mind with great security, superior reliability, and backing for local businesses and the development of Canadian innovation. In this day and age, storing your data in Canada is not only a smart move, but an essential one. Let’s explore why more than ever, you should keep your data within Canada. Here are five key reasons why hosting your website in Canada with 4GoodHosting is the best decision for your business: Incomparable Privacy Control – What’s That? Presumably it is safe to assume we all want privacy and data safety. But did you know that if you host your data in Canada, the level of privacy you will get is unparalleled? This is not the case in every country, as some have a more lenient approach to privacy and use it as a set of guidelines, looking at you places south of the border. This is why Canada is viewed as one of the top countries that ensures privacy protection for it’s citizens. In this regard, Canada has implemented the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act PIPEDA to make sure all sensitive data is well governed and companies are held responsible for any mishandling. This entails that your email, payment information, and personal records are protected under privacy laws in Canada, therefore these records do not fall into the wrong hands. Additionally, if you store your information in Canadian data centers, there is nearly zero likelihood of being subjected to foreign laws that may endanger the privacy of your business. In simple terms, Canada understands the...

November 21, 2024

Hosting Related, Security, Security Related

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Ahoy, fellow Vancouverites! Well okay then, we’re not going to dive head first into the principles of website security without some preparation, so grab your virtual life jackets. Whether you are managing a café in Gastown nook or a Slalom startup from the North Shore, no one wishes to feel a chill online as in a careless suburban construction site. If you decide to go with an insecure web hosting company, your website can be easily hacked. It can delete important data and documents, as well as capture the virus in a mission to attack other computer, leading to lots of harm to your reputations. Antaraya reports from Google show web hosting to be the main reason why web site gets hacked is due to poor web hosting. Google reveals online hosting service as the most common cause of hacked websites. So let’s discuss what we believe should be one of the focal points about your Vancouver website hosting provider – security – in addition to some of the best poutine places to grab a bite in town – or online. Secure Hosting Vancouver: Your Digital Fortress Let’s start at the very beginning: secure hosting Vancouver isn’t just some PR hype phrase that insiders in the tech community bandy around – it is designed to protect you from the wild wild web. You can just image this as the walls of a log cabin protecting you against the gusts of ugly winds and, of course, nasty cyber threats. SSL Certificates Vancouver: The Magic of HTTPS If you ever spot the green padlock in the lower section of the browser, know that you are safe. That’s the sign of SSL certificates working of course. They work to encode messages between your users and your websites, and more significantly, it becomes difficult for the sneaky hackers to capture and maliciously dean your important details. Those sites that exchange delicate client information for example credit card information require SSL certificates. Most websites hosting services provide free SSL certificates for web hosting services being offered. Any respectable Vancouver website hosting provider should deliver SSL certificates as easily as a local barista delivers your morning...

November 6, 2024

Hosting Related, Security

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The requirement in game development today is tremendous power, reliability, and speed to keep pace with the industry's demands as well as the expectations of the players. As technology related to gaming develops rapidly, the same happens with the demands for premium infrastructure in regard to the testing, developing, and deploying of newer games. That is where the spotlight focuses on SSD web hosting; it's tailored to give a balance between speed and stability specifically catered for the needs of game developers. Many developers, designers, and indie studios go for SSD web hosting to unlock higher performance, dependable speed, and workflow completely smoother for their games. If you have a business running game development or testing, this kind of hosting may be worth your consideration. Let's go further into why this SSD web hosting is being adopted by many as their Game Development Hosting Solutions and why 4GoodHosting just happens to be an excellent one for such a purpose. What is SSD Hosting and How Does It Work? These Solid State Drives are considered one of the non-volatile storage technologies that primarily use NAND-based flash memory. They are completely different in functionality from traditional Hard Disk Drives as they do not incorporate any spinning magnetic disks with read/write heads. With this simple difference, one witnesses greater speed, reliability, and efficiency in SSDs, thus becoming the storage medium most preferred for today's modern web hosting services. Benefits of SSD Hosting: Data access will take much less time; hence, high latency becomes obsolete, and pages load faster. Reliability. Since there are no moving parts, SSDs seem to be less mechanical prone to failure. That helps a website stay up all the time with minimal uptime interruption. Efficiency SSDs consume less energy when compared to their HDD based counterpart; therefore, more saving in operating cost coupled with environmental efficiency. The Power of SSD Web Hosting in Game Development The server infrastructure you decide on while developing your games is going to play a vital role both in your workflow and in the final experience your game offers. Traditionally, web hosting tends to make use of HDDs. It is pretty cheap, but it certainly...

July 2, 2024

Hosting Related, Security

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People draw curtains or close blinds because they want privacy, and in other instances it’s because they’re looking to be kept out of the light of the sun. But when they lock doors they are taking it to a different level and no part of their interest is in shade from anything. They’re wanting to have an uncrossable barrier between themselves and the outside world, and one of the principal appeal points of being indoors is being able to have that. It can keep you safe, and it can also make sure your belongings stay in your possession. Both aspects of that can be related to when we frame that from the perspective of cyber security. The reason that website security protocols and the like are necessary is because there are more cyber security threats than ever before and without these protocols there will be unauthorized access to your website. And once the threat actors are in there is no telling what they might get up to. One of the more serious risks is data theft from a website, and assuring people you have the means of defending against that is going to be expected with VPS hosting Canada with 24/7 support. Web hosting providers need to have web security protocols built into their hosting servers and these days it’s necessary to offer this to prospective customers. We’re able to provide that assurance with out VPS web hosting here at 4GoodHosting, and we put a real emphasis on staying at the forefront with secure web hosting in Canada. So what we’re going to do with this week’s blog entry here is talk about the best data security practices for VPS servers. It is a topic that will be of interest for anyone who has a website for a growing business that is moving to VPS hosting because their current shared hosting arrangement isn’t a fit because of traffic spikes to the website – a good problem to have to be sure if you have an ecommerce website and you’re online to promote the growth of your business. More high-performance web hosting is where they need to be looking. Look To...

June 4, 2024

Hosting Related, Security, Security Related

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When artificial intelligence first started making its presence known we were all told that before long it would be incorporating itself into nearly everything, and of course that’s proven to be entirely true. Some people say that’s a cause for concern, and whether or not that’s true would need to be the subject of another discussion entirely. But it is indisputable that the analytical and evaluative capacities of AI have been hugely beneficial to the working world, and that does able to web hosting in Canada too. Whether we like it or not, at this point in the game it is true that synthetic smarts are outdistancing natural smarts in a big way. Even collectively human brainpower can’t match up with AI in certain aspects of the working world where decisions need to be made based on an understanding of the information available. That doesn’t apply to ever corner of it, but when it comes higher-level linear thinking it certainly does. It is also entirely true to say that AI is more adept and capable with making executive decisions about how machine learning should be directed. This part of it is key in how AI improves website security when it is utilized by your host. You will always be looking for an affordable hosting provider in Canada, but you’ll also want to have one that is known for having solid security against cyber threats. Especially if your website is an ecommerce one and you need to be receiving sensitive financial data from customers. Here at 4GoodHosting we are always keeping ourselves at the forefront of technologies and trends in web hosting, and as such we have been open to incorporating AI in web hosting right from the start. We’ve done just that, and nowhere is it more notable than with our virtual private servers (VPS) that are very popular with those types of bigger and more traffic-heavy ecommerce websites that we talked about earlier. So this is what we’re going to talk about with this blog entry, looking specifically at how AI can improve web hosting security. Impressively Scalable – And Secure Cloud-based virtual private servers (VPS) are tops for...

January 19, 2024

Hosting Related, Security, Security Related

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Things change quickly in the digital world, and what was barely even on the radar can become a front and center issue overnight in some cases. Go back 10 years and the issue of privacy in web browsing wasn’t something the vast majority of people paid even the slightest bit of attention to. Nowadays, however, it’s definitely a hot-button topic given all the news that’s come out about web browsing histories and the like being tracked, monitored, and then made available to whoever doesn’t mind paying for information about what people like YOU search for online. Some people don’t have a problem with that. Other people have quite a significant problem with that. If you’re part of the second group there then you may have already switched over to using a web browser like DuckDuckGo or something similar. It’s a fine privacy-promoting web browser in itself, but it’s a bit of a generalist in that it works suitably well across the board but not especially well for any one framework. And that’s where and why Epic coming onto the scene is as noteworthy as it is. It is a Chromium-based browser designed to ensure privacy without giving up anything i speed or functionality. It blocks ads as well as prevents user tracking, and also includes built-in protection against a wide range of surveillance methods cryptocurrency mining scripts among them. It promises to be just what the Doctor ordered for those who think these types of overwatch activities are unacceptable, and here at 4GoodHosting we’re like any other quality Canadian web hosting provider in that we agree with you wholeheartedly. Let’s take a look at what makes this new no-tracking web browser such a good fit and why it promises to be especially well received. Surfers 1 / Watchers 0 It’s fair to say that it’s really a shame that the innocence and carefreeness of using the world wide web to gain information is gone now, and that government agencies, corporations, and malicious hackers lurking in the shadows and taking notes is entirely unacceptable. Even those who aren’t overly incensed at having their privacy violated will almost certainly choose to stay...

January 4, 2024

Hosting Related, Security, Security Related

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Today, websites mostly run either on a Linux or a Windows based web server. However, a large chunk of sites run using Linux hardware. If your site is a HTML-based static web site, the operating system of your hosting server won't make any difference but, it makes difference when your site uses dynamic scripting languages like ASP or PHP/Perl (Linux technologies). Yet there has been success when websites run on PHP and Perl on Windows OS for years together. But, the licensing and technology for running ASP and Microsoft databases is being ironed out. A Windows server runs an MS Windows IIS (Internet Information Server) and is important for websites based on ASP/.NET scripting languages whereas, a Linux server is used for running the remaining websites, which is more in usage because of its availability at no cost. How the hosting computer is compatible with your home computer? Some people are worried about the compatibility of their system with the web hosting system. They are unnecessarily worried whether their system is compatible with the web hosting system. In reality, you won't run any program from your system on host's web server. And, the host won't run anything on your system. So, it doesn't matter what type of system you use. The only thing that makes a big difference visible is a Windows server runs a Plesk control panel. On the other hand, Linux uses cPanel to manage the hosting accounts of the users. Does your website need Windows technologies ASP or .NET or MS SQL or MS Access? If you need Windows technologies for your website and your website or web applications are executing directly ASP or .NET code, or if it is using MS Access or MS SQL or possibly using advanced databases/interfaces that connect remotely to the required Microsoft-based web servers, it is essential to sign-up for a web hosting package that uses Windows. There are also other ways of using Windows applications on Linux systems. But if your site is depending on the Microsoft technologies, you may face a smaller number of challenges and concerns. If you are going to use a Windows server and if you...

September 3, 2019

Domain Related, Hosting Related, Security, Security Related

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Shopping online is pretty much a ubiquitous activity for people all over the world these days, and - not surprisingly - so much so that it’s now the preferred means of shopping for many people. Especially for certain goods, and not only do these people want selection, good prices, and the like, but they also want to be able to enter their credit card information and not have to worry about it being exposed. Offering that peace of mind is absolutely essential if you’re in the e-commerce world, and nothing is more important in this regard as having your online transactions guarded by an SSL certificate. Even if you may not know exactly what these are, you’ve probably seen the ’##-Bit Encryption’ tag prominently on display once you get to the checkout when you’re shopping online. Here at 4GoodHosting, not only do we offer very competitive prices on highest-quality SSL Certificates but like any good Canadian web hosting provider we have plenty of customers who are trusting our web hosting to ensure they’re ‘open’ for business 24/7 and all day, everyday. Probably safe to say that there’s few if any of those folks who don’t already have their SSL Certs in place, but for those of you who are new to your business online then we thought we’d dedicate one post here to discussing SSL certificates and what you need to know to choose one for yourself. Overview There is a plethora of certificate types, and several categories and plenty of CAs. In advance of highlighting the different SSL certificates and how to choose the right one, we’ll first discuss why an SSL certificate is so important nowadays. The reach and strength of cyber crimes has grown rapidly over recent years. So much so in fact that cybersecurity has become the #1 concern issue for both web users and website admins. The truth of it all is that cybercriminals can cost online businesses millions. The worldwide economy loses unimaginable amounts of money every year due to cybercriminal activity. What SSL certificates do to protect agains this is that they enforce a secure connection between a server and its web users....

August 27, 2019

Security, Security Related

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Most people have claimed a reward of some type at some point in their lives. Return someone’s smartphone to them, for example, and they’ll probably think your honesty in returning it is worth $50 at least. Or maybe you return someone’s precious pet to them and get a whole lot more than that for your effort or, more likely, good fortune in having it cross your path or end up in your backyard. But what if there was up 30K in reward money to be had? Well, up to that amount is what software development mega-giant Microsoft is offering anyone who can find flaws in their newest Chromium-based Edge browser. Now the likelihood of most people – myself included – even having the ability to do that is pretty slim, but for those who are web development savvy it’s definitely something worth taking note of. Now to be sure, just as it would be for any Canadian web hosting provider we’ve got some talented people on staff who do have the wherewithal required for something like this. They’re aware, and now you are too so let’s get into discussing what exactly all this is about and whether or not this would be not just easy money, but a LOT of easy money. Beta Stage Bonuses Microsoft recently released the beta version of its Chromium-based Edge and then introduced the Insider Bounty Program along with it. As mentioned, there’s apparently up to $30,000 to be had for those who find out unique vulnerabilities in this beta version of their new browser. Yes, that’s what you can do when you have deep pockets to this extent. You’d have to find a thousand+ lost phones and pets to come even close! To clarify though, 30K is only available if you find a flaw that is a vulnerability that leads to escape from the WDAG container. The majority of would-be rewards included in the Microsoft Edge Insider Bounty Program are in the range of $1,000 to $3,000, depending upon the bug’s severity and – take note – the quality of the submission (see thoroughness – less work for them = more $ for you)....