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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.

The [...]

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 [...]

cPanel Update: Version 11.42

Last May, Funio updated all its shared hosting servers to the new stable cPanel version 11.42. The most important reason for any update is always security. For a hosting provider like Funio, it’s also the opportunity to continue providing technologies at the forefront of the latest trends.

What’s New

Very often, updates this size add new and highly demanded features. Among all the updates listed for 11.42, we believe the following two are those that will interest you the most.

Vulnerability Found In the WordPress plugin “All in One SEO Pack”

The security enthusiasts at Sucuri found two security vulnerabilities in the very popular WordPress plugin “All In One SEO Pack“. Indeed, with over 18 million downloads, we think it’s worth the attention of all WordPress users.

These security gaps would allow attackers to access non-administrative user accounts (author, subscriber and other non-admin), to elevate their privileges and inject malicious code in the WordPress administrative control panel.

Rest assured, the team that created the plugin in question has already [...]