I am somewhat shocked that I’m writing this article. Who would have thought that in 2010 there are major hosting companies that still do not provide FTP services to their clients? Does yours? First, what is FTP? FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, the standard way to move website files to and from a hosting…
DetailsOver the past 7 days, we’ve tried to explain some of the features of our NerdCare Assurance packages. We’ve talked about our monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, hack detection, preventative maintenance and content updates, and these are just the major points in our Assurance packages. Our packages are designed to increase your Productivity, Pleasureability and Profitability,…
DetailsIn our continuing series on Hosting NerdCare Assurance, we want to mention an incredible feature of our Silver package. Monthly content updates allow your business to simply shift the responsibility and burden of updating your website to our team, freeing up you and your staff to work on other aspects of the business. A regularly…
DetailsYour grandmother could run a botnet. Really? You probably thought hacking skills and technical know-how were needed to be botmaster. Nope – just $2500 US, an email address, and a desire to do some evil. Don’t worry – Nana’s (probably) not herding bots, but it’s not because she lacks the necessary skills. This may explain…
DetailsThe Nerds On Site Development team has a few things on the go right now that we are pretty excited to release in the upcoming weeks. One of which is our streamlined approach to getting small businesses and even individual business owners web-ready at an affordable price. Imagine the simplicity in being able to search…
DetailsIn our continuing series on Nerds On Site’s Hosting NerdCare Assurance, I would like to talk about our preventative maintenance provisions in our Silver NerdCare package. As a Pembrokeshire proverb says, “Eat an apple on going to bed, And you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.” CMS-based websites, such as Joomla, Drupal and WordPress…
DetailsWhile all the pieces and tools in our Hosting NerdCare package work together and are equally vital to your piece of mind, our hack detection system does stand out in the industry for its uniqueness. At the time of this blog, we are not aware of another company offering a product even close to ours,…
DetailsYesterday, in our continuing series on NerdCare Assurance, we wrote about the depth and breadth of our backup procedures for our NerdCare clients. Today we want to talk for moment about why we want those backups. Every day, over 3500 business websites are hacked. With the sheer number of servers world-wide hosting websites, inevitably one…
DetailsToday, in our continuing series on our NerdCare Assurance packages, I would like to talk about backing up a website. Most businesses would be amazed to learn that their hosting provider does not backup their website, as there seems to be a prevailing belief that all hosting providers backup everything. Your hosting provider may even…
DetailsIn the world of business, it pays to know about trouble before anyone else. Hosting NerdCare Assurance is all about providing peace of mind as a goal to driving up your Productivity, Profitability and Pleasureability. The first step in the process is to provide 24×7 monitoring of your website and the server it sits on.…
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