Posts Tagged ‘maintenance plans’
Belts and suspenders, eggs in one basket, backup plans, and A2Hosting ransomware!
The popular A2Hosting company is struggling with a ransomware attack that’s knocked quite a few of their Windows-server clients offline. While we’ve recommended A2Hosting to some of our WordPress clients we direct them to Linux hosting so they’re unlikely to have been affected by this attack. Ugh! Ransomware is a serious problem for smaller ISPs…
Read MoreUpdate for December 2018: Signs of Naughty and Nice Websites
Photo by kevin dooley Two lists with a seasonal flair from web security provider Sucuri! “Naughty” features include outdated software, resused passwords, every user is an Administrator, and no automatic backups. They also point out that if you’ve got more than one website it’s a security risk if they’re all kept in the same folders…
Read MoreEver Say “Our Site Needs Work But… It’s Fine?”
“Yeah, I’ve got a website. It needs a little work but… it’s fine.” You ever feel that way when someone asks if you’ve got a website? Ever hear someone else say it when you ask them? There are a million reasons someone’s website is “fine” instead of fantastic. And, as they say, you…
Read MoreWhy we keep your backups on another server…
The phone call from a former client that made us take long-term maintenance seriously: “Do you have a backup of my website? I accidentally deleted my site from my server!” It’s not that easy to delete your whole site, but from time to time people do. Not as catastrophically as the owner of a web…
Read MoreFolks who don’t have RealBasics service contracts need to patch their WordPress sites.
On the other hand if you’re already one of our service customers your software’s already updated and your site is secure. Here’s the warning from the good folks at WordFence WordPress Vulnerability: WordPress before 3.7.2 and 3.8.x before 3.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to publish posts by leveraging the Contributor role. More info available on the…
Read More“I Might Have Just Deleted My Website” Sounds Better With a Recent Backup
Do you have a backup plan for your website? Is it current and ongoing? Is your site backed up to your local machine, or the cloud, or somewhere that’s not on your server’s file system. I mention this because if your backups are stored on your server file system then if you accidentally delete all the…
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