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.CA Domain Owners: Update Your Contacts!

.CA Domain Policies: Owner Contact Update

Starting September 30th 2014, .CA domain owners could receive communications from the CIRA (The Canadian Internet Registration Authority), requesting the update of the registrant contact information of their domain names. Indeed, since March 6th 2014, any new .CA domain registration requires that all contact information is completed. Whereas before, you could only specify the owner name without including an address, email or phone number.

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Back to School Promotion: Performance Upgrade

Dear Funio hosting customer,

You are launching a promotion and you expect a high volume of traffic that might slow down your site? Your rise in popularity requires that you maintain fast website loading speeds, especially considering the fact that site loading speeds impact SEO ranking?

Until September 19th, Funio offers you the incredible opportunity to put rockets on your hosting plan by upgrading to the Optimal plan with a 25% rebate!

Not a [...]

SEO Basics: 5 Things You Should Never ignore

No one can claim to have the perfect formula for an impeccable SEO. Positioning yourself on the Web is an art that perpetually changes; its variables are countless and publicity cost can become unrealistic.

As proof of how things can change, Google recently announced that websites secured with an SSL certificate will get extra points in their ranking. Let me take a moment for a shameless plug: Funio offers affordable SSL certificates with an automatic installation feature.

Back To School: The Perfect Time to Sharpen Your Skills & Save Time

September is at our doorsteps and time is flying by. Finding solutions to any loss of time has become a necessity. If you are anything like me, someone who likes to get things done as quickly as possible and learn at the same time, I have a great trick for you.

Funio has been working since day one on a knowledge base that allows you to find solutions to common problems and learn how to perform [...]

PHP 5.6: Release Candidate Now Available

We have been working up to great stability and performance on our servers in recent years, in order to attain a constantly superior quality of service. With stable infrastructures, regular updates and an ever growing server farm, we are now at the point where we can actually allow ourselves to be a bit in advance.

As of July 10th, all our servers allow the use of PHP 5.6. This release candidate can be used but you must be [...]

cPanel Announces They Will Stop Supporting Older Browsers

All good things must come to an end. cPanel recently announced they will no longer support versions 6, 7 & 8 of Internet Explorer, as well as older Firefox and Chrome versions, as well as other Web browsers. This does not come to us as a surprise, especially considering how fast the web has evolved, but it is an announcement to take into account since cPanel is the most popular web hosting control panel out there.

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Vulnerability in the Very Popular WordPress Plugin WPtouch 3.x

Once again, the Sucuri.net folks found a security vulnerability in another very popular WordPress plugin: WPtouch 3.x, that has over 5 million downloads.

If you are using WPtouch 3.x, you should stop reading this article and update the plugin from your WordPress administrative panel immediately.

WPtouch was very fast to respond and fix the issue, and they released version 3.4.3 with a patch for the problem. Note that versions 1.x and 2.x are not affected.

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Your Basic Guide To Email Blacklists

What’s for breakfast? Egg bacon spam and sausage! We have come a long way since Monty Python’s spam skit, but one thing remains true: no one likes spam. Email blacklisting is a necessary evil in today’s email service world. Major email blacklist companies, such as Spamhaus and Spamcop, have a simple goal: block out the spam… all the spam.

How Blacklists Work

Blacklists are a strong mechanism against spam because they compile into lists all the current known sources [...]

CASL: The Canadian Anti-Spam Law. Are You Ready?

July 1st is not just Canada Day this year, but also the day where the new Canadian anti-spam Law (CASL) is put into effect. In short, any business (or individual) that communicates with their customers through email must have received consent in order to do so. As your hosting provider, we thought we would provide you some information and resources to help you ensure that you are compliant with the new Canadian anti-spam law (CASL).

Does CASL Apply To My [...]

Healthy Lifestyle. Prescription: Action! at the Grand Défi Pierre Lavoie

For a second consecutive year, Funio is proud to sponsor Prescription: Action! for their participation in the Grand défi Pierre Lavoie! Maybe one day Funio will have at least 5 employees healthy and active enough to participate, but in the meantime, encouraging this team will have to be sufficient (and encouraging).

Funio is Sponsoring Who?

Prescription: Action! is a volunteer project launched by a group of doctors in the region of Edmundston (New [...]