One of the worst feelings I have had is being hacked, I don’t mean by Jim Duggan. I mean by some most likely 8-year-old kid in a freezing country that has nothing better to do than try to ruin your day. It’s like having your house broken into or your car stolen. Just a sinking…
Category: Websites
HostGator left in the dust
Someone today asked if we are faster than HostGator. So we ran some tests, and we were shocked at how slow they were. We didn’t want to post this because we felt bad. In fact, they are the slowest of all the major hosting companies we have tested against so far. With their slow network…
New SEO thinking
SEO has changed drastically over the last ten years. What most webmasters thought was good ten years ago is very bad now. Some links can hurt you now! Of course this is questionable because then people can sabotage your company, but for the most part the main thing is to not fish for just any…
Wondering why your forwarding email is not working?
For your e-mail forwarding to work, you need to add the e-mail used on your web hosting account as a contact in your forwarded email account. For example, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and most other free e-mails require you to add the email being forwarded from as a contact in their system for it to arrive….
Simple formmail example
Here is a simple cut-and-paste form with a couple variables you can change. It uses Formmail already added to every web hosting account in your cPanel with Web Host Pro. You will need to have an email set up and working in the account you add the form to. Here is the example and code…
Make an easy $10 by referring as friend!
Want an extra $10? Well, it’s as easy as telling your friends to try out WebHost.pro. Just cut and paste the message below into your social networks and grab a quick $10 off your bill for each signup. We can even make you a custom 10% off coupon you can give them to track your…
Security Advisory: OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160)
There is a new vulnerability as of 4-10-2014 in OpenSSL called the “Heartbleed Bug” (CVE-2014-0160) which affects any server utilizing this for SSL connections. The Heartbleed bug allows an attacker to send a SSL/TLS heartbeat request to the server, which sends back a 64KB chunk of memory to the attacker. This memory can contain sensitive…
Speed up your site by managing Inodes!
Inodes are simply the amount of individual files in your domain. For example a file that is 1 megabyte or 100 megabytes is still just 1 inode. To speed up your site all your need to do is keep these your files a s low as possible. The more Inodes you have the harder the…