System Improvements (March 2015)

Here at Funio, we are always trying to make your lives easier! This effort can be found in each and every one of our actions. We continuously evolve our interfaces and products as a means to provide you with the best web hosting experience you can get.

As a means to include you even more in our ongoing development and all the different improvements made on our various platforms, we have decided to publish system updates on our [...]

Proud .CA Registrar

If you are a Canadian company with an online presence, you should have a .CA domain name.

Because only Canadians can get a .CA domain, it becomes a beacon of trust for Canadians on the Web. A .CA domain is also a good SEO strategy: since .CA is exclusive to Canada, .CA domain names are given more prominence in search engines for customers searching within Canada.

Your .CA Registrar

As a fully accredited .CA registrar, Funio [...]

Improved Web Ranking For Mobile-Friendly Websites

Starting April 21st, Google will be expanding the use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. You understood that correctly: a Google search on mobiles will prioritize websites optimized for mobile devices.

Are you ready for this update? Google has been speaking about being mobile-ready for a long time. When web ranking is close to our hearts, this announcement is kind of forcing our hand.

Trends have demonstrated that mobile visits will only [...]

Choosing between shared hosting, VPS and a dedicated server

“What’s the difference between shared hosting, a virtual private server (VPS), and a dedicated server”? The answer to that question contains multiple facets and is, in fact, NOT the question you should be asking yourself. Instead, you should ask: “What type of hosting service better corresponds to my web presence”?

• Shared hosting
• Virtual Private Server (VPS)
• The dedicated server

Shared Hosting

Your profile:

1. I want to start my web presence with something [...]

Welcome Guillaume, Funio’s New Front-End Developer!

In order to start 2015 with a bang and kickstart rather big projects here at Funio, we have browsed the internets to find the rare diamond. That’s where Guillaume appeared on our radar. We have many projects that require his expertise, and within a few months working with us, he has already proven that we did not poorly choose our additional web programmer.

In order to get acquainted with Guillaume and explain what he does, we’re giving him the mic. [...]

Easy eCommerce With panierdachat.com

When our customers impress us and share a similar ideology to ours, we like to share the experience like we did with Workland.ca in April 2014. I would now like to share my impressions of Panierdachat.com, an Online Shop turnkey solution for businesses that wish to comfortably sell their products online with easy-to-use tools specifically designed for eCommerce.

Instead of interviewing Pascal Couturier, founder of panierdachat.com, I decided (unbeknownst to [...]

PHP Update: Version 5.6 Now Official

Since July 2014, Funio provides you with the opportunity to use PHP 5.6. Since this version has been thoroughly tested and has proven its worth, it is now the official PHP release version, therefore also making it Funio’s official version too! This means that any new Funio hosting plan is configured with PHP 5.6 by default.

We believe it is important to remain at the forefront of new Web trends, as much [...]

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 [...]