The Web Hosting Blog

Discussing Security & Updates With Francis

Who better to discuss the importance of your hosting plan’s integrity than the person that makes sure that our servers maintain high-level performance, are always available and are up to date on latest security protocols? We discuss security with Francis.

Let’s talk about Content Management System (CMS) security. The internet encountered an impressive wave of Joomla 1.5.x hacking in the past month. What explains this sudden new wave?

This type of surge occurs each time new security [...]

The Importance of Domain Name Ownership

In light of recent ICANN and CIRA regulation modifications that further forces domain owners to keep their domain contacts up to date, we thought it would be a good time to discuss domain registration ownership, how to verify it and make sure you are the rightful owner of your domain name.

Too often, as a registrar and a hosting provider, we deal with customers that try to host or modify their domain names but have no access to it. Then [...]

Can I Interest You In Signing Up?

This article is part of the “10 must-read emails to kickstart your email marketing” sent by CakeMail. Signup to their mailing list here.

People don’t actively seek out email lists to join. They need to be presented with an opportunity and a reason to sign-up.

Where you can ask people to sign up

Opportunity arises each time someone interacts with your business. The most obvious example is when they’re visiting your website. The best results come when you [...]

OpenSSL Major Security Vulnerability

On April 6th 2014, an important problem (that is now public) was discovered in the OpenSSL library. This vulnerability allows an attacker to recuperate an SSL private key and other sensitive information by establishing a secure connection to the vulnerable server.

Less than 12 hours after the public announcement of this vulnerability’s existence, all of our infrastructures were updated with the required “patch”. After leading multiple tests, we can confirm that the vulnerability is no longer present on the entirety [...]

A More Efficient Homepage For Funio!

Have you noticed the drastic change we made to the Funio.com homepage? No?! Go see it now!

We thought we’d share with you a summary of the objectives of this transformation and its improvements, hoping you will find something of interest for yourself.

New HomePage – Same Identity

In the past few years, our product line and our services have been transformed and have expanded. Without changing our image or identity, it became important to better [...]

Funio & Workland: Same Ideology

Entrepreneurs will know that when you start a new business, choosing the right partners is a determining factor to your success. We are always very proud when businesses select our services, especially when we get to collaborate with them towards their project’s success.

Recently, the startup Workland.ca chose Funio as their hosting partner by opting for our Private Infrastructure solution to support their fast growing web demands. Workland is a Montreal based company specialized in recruitment [...]

Funio CakeMail: Tips For Your Business

CakeMail launches a new series of articles that aim to help small and medium businesses reach new heights and acquire essential knowledge when it comes to communicating with their customers.

Each article will promote the use of email marketing, suggesting online and offline marketing strategies for your business. Therefore, you will be able to improve your public’s commitment and develop your sales with new clienteles.

We found these tips so appropriate and fulfilling that we were unable to [...]

Server Maintenance: A Necessary Evil?

Jean-François, our “Tech Lead” answers some of our questions in order to distinguish the different types of maintenance Funio can perform.

What do we mean with the word “maintenance”?

A maintenance is our last resort when we need to intervene on services, either to improve or re-establish them. There are two types of maintenances: the planned ones and those we will call urgent.

A planned maintenance can be a software or hardware update, or adding new functionalities to our systems.

No One Likes Spam. Mandatory CakeMail Business Address.

If you are the proud user of a Funio CakeMail email marketing service, you will meet, starting March 31st 2014, a mandatory contact information form. You probably already filled your business profile before, therefore this would only be a confirmation for you.

CakeMail is enforcing the presence of your mailing address in every campaign being sent from their email marketing interface in order to stay in line with international [...]

We Like Our Databases Open: MariaDB Replaces MySQL

Since December 5th 2013, we have been replacing MySQL with MariaDB. This may seem like a sudden modification, but in fact, we have been contemplating this switchover for a while, and finally took the opportunity to do the seamless replacement at the same time we upgraded PHP on all our servers.

Why MariaDB?

First, a bit of history: in April 2009, Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems (the company who owned MySQL). Uncertainty brewed [...]