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 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!
Unlike .com domains where the vast majority of short and relevant [...]
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. [...]
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 :
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. [...]
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:
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 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 ([...]
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.
In a continuous effort [...]
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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!
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