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Working with Tinstar Design
We would like to say a big "hello" and thank you to Nick from Tinstar Design who reached out to us recently and we've been working closely with him on numerous projects. We're looking forward to collaborating with Tinstar Design over the weeks and months to come....
GDPR deadline 25th May 2018
The GDPR deadline is looming and it comes into force on the 25th May 2018. Many companies have been scrambling to modify policies and processes to ensure that they adhere to the GDPR. There are so many aspects to consider, such as where is the data stored, how secure...
Symantec SSL/TLS certificates and Google Chrome
Back in July 2017, Google announced that they would be removing support for Symantec SSL/TLS certificates from within their own browser Chrome. This applies to companies owned by Symantec too. Chrome's early 'canary' release has already ended support for these...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
You may have heard about this new piece of EU legislation which is coming into force from the 25th May 2018. If you haven't started the process, I have posted a URL below where you can start from:...
Opencart 3 has arrived. The newest version of the popular ecommerce platform.
The newest version of Opencart has been released and is now on V 3.0.1.1. It bring with it a few new features and we aim to cover these in more depth in a future post. Here's a quick rundown of the current feature set in 3.0.1.1 User management Multi Store Options...
What is Web Hosting?
Web Hosting in its simplest form is a space on a web server dedicated to a customers own files, normally a website or web page. The server runs for 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year, just waiting for requests from a web browser. Think of web hosting as a...
What is a Domain Name?
A Domain Name is a name that can be easily remembered/recalled and allows users to visit web sites & services using software such as a web browser, an email client, or an online game for example. You use them all the time when surfing and clicking on links in web...
What is a Website?
A website is a collection of files and/or folders that when requested using a domain name via a web browser such as Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome or Firefox, will be delivered and displayed in the users web browser, either on their own PC or on their mobile device...
Protecting your family online
Your family safety online There are plenty of services and software that help to protect you and your loved ones online from nasty website, phishing attacks, viruses and malware. I read a recent...
how secure is my password
A question that we get asked regularly is "how secure is my password" and there unfortunately is no simple answer, however it is possible to figure out roughly how vulnerable you might be. There are some simple rules that we should follow when it comes to password...
Firefox and Chrome Browsers flag insecure sites
Earlier this month, Google announced that any web site that doesn't use a valid SSL certificate will be flagged as insecure (https://security.googleblog.com/2016/09/moving-towards-more-secure-web.html) within the upcoming Chrome version 56. Mozilla Firefox are...
free ssl certificates for all shared hosting plans
We've recently installed the letsencrypt.org module into all of our Plesk control panels, giving our customers easy and free access to validated SSL certificates. In light of Googles move to display alert messages on their upcoming version of Google Chrome, we think...