Top 4 Best Tips to Secure Your CMS

The worst thing that can happen when you manage a website, is to see it compromised by malicious scripts or brute force attacks. With Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or Magento, it is very easy to setup and manage a website. However, security knowledge can escape you, because you don’t need to be an expert and program everything. Is that really a problem? No. But it’s important that you remain vigilant.

As a webmaster, regardless [...]

Google & SSL: HTTPS as Ranking Boost

SSL has been getting quite a bit of attention in the past few months, mostly because Google announced doing two things: use HTTPS as a ranking signal and stop supporting SHA-1 SSL certificates. We ran an article early October on Google’s wish to build a secure internet and how Chrome will give out warnings when “non Google standard” SSL [...]

The Holiday Greeting Message

Were you thinking of sending a Holiday greeting message to your customers? Now that I’ve mentioned it, are you thinking about it now? We have a great platform that allows you send an email to up to 100 contacts for free when you have a hosting plan with us. Funio CakeMail is an email marketing application with dozens of templates to choose from, an easy-to-use management interface and campaign statistics.

We use [...]

The .QUEBEC Have Arrived!

The wait time is over! Since Tuesday November 18 2014, you can register your very own .QUEBEC domain name! First come: first served.

Who can get ahold of a .QUEBEC domain name? It’s for anyone that resides in Québec, comes from Québec or any opportunists that wish to target a Québec audience!

Why a .QUEBEC?

Availability

Unlike .com domains where the vast majority of short and relevant [...]

It’s Time to Update Your WordPress! 4.0.1 Security Release

WordPress announced today that it has released a critical security update for all its currently supported versions, and encourages everyone to update their websites immediately.

If you are still running WordPress 3.9 (or shamelessly still on 3.8 or 3.7), log into your WP control panel, then go to Dashboard > Updates to do your update now!

If you enabled the automatic update feature on your site, it should already be done. [...]

Have You Considered Email Security?

Did you know that an email, unless it was encrypted, is sent in plain text? If someone (or more probably something) sniffs the network traffic where your email goes through, it can be read without any hassle.

Here’s the quick and simplified version of the path an email takes :

• Sender device (computer, mobile, tablet, etc.)
• Internal network (router, office servers, etc.)
• Internet or Telephone service provider (your mobile network)
• Email service provider
• Recipient internal network
• Recipient device

Be social: Using Twitter to Build Your Contact List

Article originally published on the CakeMail Blog

It’s not easy to create and maintain relationships in 140 characters or less. Don’t get us wrong: we love Twitter (don’t hesitate to say Hi to @cakemail and @funiohosting!), but sometimes, we have a lot to say. At those times, we use Twitter to tease about the topic, and expand on it: either on our blog, our website or our newsletters. [...]

cPanel -> Panelbox -> Customer Hub : Simplicity At Your Fingertips

Managing your hosting plan just became easier with your Customer Hub!

For over 3 years already, we have been constantly improving our different client interfaces and adding new tools to perpetuate our vision: make web hosting available to everyone!

More specifically today, we have done so by integrating the management and configuration of your hosting plan in your Customer Hub. In short, we have:

• Improved the navigation and design of the hosting product management page.

Be social: Using Facebook to Build Your Contact List

Article originally published on the CakeMail Blog

With 1.3 Billion (yes, that’s a ‘B’) active users, your local business should have a Business page on Facebook. The page should mention your business’ events, sales and news. The catch is that Facebook won’t display all your updates (also known as “posts”) to all the people who’ve “Liked” your business.

Even if your page has amazing updates, thousands of followers and a die-hard fan base, your news [...]

Google & SSL: Building a Secure Internet

Google dreams of a secure internet; one that runs completely on secured websites. Early September, Google announced that they will no longer trust SHA-1 certificates, and begin implementing transitional warnings in the Chrome browser. When version 39 comes out (estimated to early November), the HTTPS lock in the URL bar will start displaying a warning when SHA-1 is being used.

Other browsers have also announced they have a deprecation plan for 2016 ([...]