11 Must Follow steps to Secure Your WordPress Website

By Deepak Sihag in PHP, Tutorial, Useful Tips, Wordpress 1 Comment
11 Must Follow steps to Secure Your WordPress Website

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So you too love WordPress same as we do and decided to have your website developed in WordPress? WordPress is most popular blogging platform also used for websites, almost 70 million websites are WordPress today.

But with so many positive point comes a most common threat of getting hack, WordPress is a powerful and easy to use but can be heaven for hackers if you don’t use proper secure methods. Here are 11 steps which shall help you to secure your website as well must do after a WordPress install: Continue reading

Why Register a .COM domain

By Deepak Sihag in Tutorial, Useful Tips 0 Comment

Internet is changing too fast. Are you ready for the new wave of internet.why-register-dot-com
With more and more businesses going online and requirement of new gTLD (gTLDs are generic top level domains such as .com, .net and .org), 617 new domains in process of being launched in coming time. Some of them are already available for registration and getting attention.

So why do I need a new gTLD?

That’s a good question to ask. Well lets assume you have a business dealing in used cars and want an online presence. Your first preference possible may be usercars.com? Getting a domain name of choice it too difficult in this growing online world.

Here comes new gTLD for you rescue, how about if you can have your website name as “user.cars”, sounds
interesting?

There are plenty of choice to choose like:
.club / .expert / .dance / .संगठन / .reviews / .services / .guru / .lawyer / .sexy
View complete list here HostWebsite.us

Any new gTLD is launched in 3 phase:
1) The Sunrise phase (60 days) : Trademark holders who have listed their trademark in the Trademark
Clearinghouse can apply for the matching domain name.
2) Landrush (30 days) : Special period where more entities can apply and auctions will decide who gets the domain name
3) General launch : will be open for all without requirements.

Below is a easy graphic representation by ‘European Domain Centre’ to show new gTLDs and their launch date. You may also like to REGISTER domain here at 10% off

How to add SSL on apache2 ubuntu

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How to add SSL on apache2 ubuntu

SSL is short form of ‘Secure Sockets Layer’ and is a crystallographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at the transport layer end-to-end.

Installation of SSL is different on Linux compared to windows. I assume you already have a certification file from your provider before proceeding ahead with this tutorial. Further I will be using www.mysiteforssl.com as example domain in this tutorial. You can replace it with your domain name while actual implementation is in process.

As a basic information SSL listens to post 443 and there is only one SSL vhost per IP address. Mutiple SSL vhost may require multiple IPs.
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