Many of us have, had or at least considered having a blog at one point or another. Blogs occupy a huge part of the internet, which has recently been confirmed by a study showing that 77% of the active internet users read them on a regular basis. What makes blogs a preferred option for [ Read More… ]
Most of us have, at some point, been a part of a contest, game or sweepstake on Facebook. Properly organizing games can bring a whole lot of fans to your page, without having to give a single dollar for advertising. However, there are some things you should know before attempting to popularize your Facebook page [ Read More… ]
For all of our customers that have Linux VPS with Plesk, below you can find how to further protect your WordPress site by creating an additional barrier to your wp-login page. 1. The first step is to create a user that will have access to your wp-login page. These login details are created in the [ Read More… ]
The solution described below (applies for all customers with SolidCP based hosting accounts) will provide you with an additional password for your wp-login page, thus increasing your defense against brute force attacks significantly. 1. Log in into your control panel 2. Create a FTP account that will be used mainly for access to WordPress. From [ Read More… ]
The solution described below (applies for All cPanel based hosting accounts) will provide you with an additional password for your wp-login page – which would increase your defense against brute force attacks significantly. 1. Log in to your cPanel and find the icon ‘Password Protect Directories’ which you can find under your Security section 2. [ Read More… ]
Date: April 14th, 2013 There is a new global brute-force attack on against ALL – WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal sites across the entire web hosting industry. All major, small, large, medium, hosting companies, and their clients are being impacted. This is by far one of the LARGEST and very effective Cyber Attacks in recent days. [ Read More… ]
The world of WP offers an immense diversity of Great WordPress plugins to install, and tough many of them are not as functional as the description states, some are quite useful. This week we decided to give you a brief overview of 5 of the must-haves you can use to improve your blog. Starting first [ Read More… ]
Brute-force attack is a way for someone to guess your account password by using a trial-error method. During a brute-force attack in a very short of time a high number of possible passwords are tried against your account. Brute-force attack methods are sophisticated in the sense that all possible combinations, of letters, numbers and special [ Read More… ]
Over 7,000 people voted on Mochahost’s Facebook page, giving an important insight on the hosting industry tendencies, and revealing interesting answers to – “What do you expect the most from your hosting company?”. The Facebook fans had to put on a scale what they are mostly interested when looking for a hosting plan by picking [ Read More… ]
The WP security keys (or so called Salt) are essential part of your WordPress security checklist. The ‘salt’ that the keys add to your password further protects it from hacking attempts by improving the encryption of the information stored in WP related cookies. These keys are so important that with the newer versions of WordPress [ Read More… ]
