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Guidelines on How to Handle a Security Breach on Your eCommerce Website
Security breaches are on a constant rise and despite all the time and effort you may have invested into providing a maximum level of security for your users, your website may still be vulnerable to...
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3 Ways to Backup Your Website: Backup Awareness Month
June is the Backup Awareness Month, so the team here at Crucial are getting behind it and helping customers switch their focus to their all important data.How often do people backup?Data is worth more...
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5 Ways to Spot an Average Hosting Provider
The only efficient business website is the one that converts, which certainly depends on multiple factors including reliability of a web host.If you notice that your website fails to deliver expected...
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Australian Government Tries to Incentivise Small Business Cloud Adoption
Cloud adoption rates have been growing steadily over the last couple of years, however this growth has mostly been focused around certain sectors and was usually noticeable in larger businesses.A...
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Cloud Security Considerations for Small Businesses
Even though cloud adoption rates are on the rise and small business owners are not as hesitant to explore the options provided by these solutions as they once were, there is still a fair bit of...
View ArticleOnApp, Chapter 1: Sourcing the Ideal Cloud Platform
In late 2012 we embarked on a major overhaul of our brand, the Virtual Server line-up, and the flagship Cloud VPS product. The end result of this overhaul was the Crucial Cloud Hosting you see today,...
View ArticleBenefits of Using a CDN: Bringing Content Closer to Your User
A CDN (content delivery network) is a network of geographically distributed locations (also known as: POPs, or point of presences) setup to bring delivery of static content closer to the end user. The...
View ArticleOnApp, Chapter 2: Cloud Familiarisation
In my previous blog post I explained how we made the decision to roll out OnApp as our underlying cloud platform rather than continuing the DIY approach. In this post I will be looking at how we...
View ArticleWe’re Beefing Up Our Web & Reseller Hosting Servers
The brains in our SysOps team have upgraded our Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting servers with some great new performance and security additions to the server-side/operating system. The upgrades will...
View ArticleOpenSSL Heartbleed Security Update
On April 7 the OpenSSL Project released an update to address a detected vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) in their software. OpenSSL is a common software package installed across multiple Linux Operating...
View ArticleDon’t Wait Until It’s Too Late: Check if a Site is Safe from HeartBleed
A recently discovered security bug named ‘Heartbleed’ has affected websites over the last week and a half, bringing millions of personal online identities in danger. If you have already received a...
View ArticleOnApp, Chapter 3: Now and the Future
Earlier this year I brought you chapter one and chapter two of our OnApp journey. In the first chapter I looked at how we came to the decision to select OnApp as an integral part of our cloud platform....
View ArticleHow to Speed Up Your WordPress Website
WordPress is known as one of the simplest, most convenient and cheapest content management systems out there, which is why it is one of the favourite solutions for small business owners who want to...
View ArticleSecurity Update: Bash Shellshock Vulnerability
NOTE: This article was originally published with the incorrect dates (24th June, instead of 24th September). On the 24th September 2014 a serious Bash shell vulnerability was announced (CVE-2014-6271 /...
View ArticleHow to Solve the Font Rendering Issue in Chrome
If you’re like the majority of the team members at Crucial, you’ll either be using Safari or Chrome to do your job. However with all of it’s features and speed, one of the biggest drawbacks of Chrome...
View ArticleIs Magento the Best CMS for Your Small Business?
Magento is one of the most popular ecommerce platforms and is implemented by numerous small businesses. But as widely used as it is, it’s not without its faults. Here at Crucial we have many customers...
View ArticleIs Web Hosting the Right Platform for Your Email?
Email can be quite challenging to get right, there are many factors to consider including the storage of emails and spam, both outgoing and incoming. So is hosting your email with your website the best...
View ArticleSecurity Update: Poodle SSLv3 Vulnerability
Recently Google researchers identified a security flaw in Version 3 of the SSL protocol. The attack has been named POODLE (“Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption”) for easy reference. This...
View ArticleHow to Connect Google Apps with Your Domain Name
As we have previously noted in ‘Is Web Hosting the Right Platform for Your Email?‘ separating your email from your hosting is a good idea. With that said you may be now wondering how to go about...
View ArticleHow I Didn’t Get a Job at Atlassian and Learnt About Customer Support Platforms
Back in the summer of 2013 I got that ‘three-year job itch’ with my current role and decided to apply for a ‘Risk Manager’ job at Atlassian. With close to 7 years experience in Risk Management I was...
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