When you’re getting ready to create a new WordPress website, one of the most important decisions to make is choosing a WordPress theme that fits your business needs. A WordPress Theme should be flexible and reliable, and won’t haunt you later if or when problems arise. You also don’t want to spend hours searching for […]
Along with the usual minor improvements and bug fixes, WordPress 5.0 introduced a new page editor: Gutenberg, a new Theme Template: Twenty Sixteen and a new Plugin: Classic Editor. Gutenberg Editor Twenty Nineteen Theme Classic Editor Plugin Fix WordPress 5.0 Release Notes Gutenberg Editor The new Gutenberg editor is a major upgrade of the default […]
When talking about eCommerce platforms, some are hosted for you – like Shopify, BigCommerce, and Squarespace – with other platforms you choose the host yourself. There’s also another dynamic to consider when considering platforms. It’s the question of licensing. In this article, we take a look at the open source license and highlight why we […]
Spam, spam, spam, and more spam!!! The first promotional email was sent in 1978, though it wasn’t known as spam way back when, and even before that unsolicited messages and scams were sent across telegraph. Just think, people have been trying to send unwanted messages long before email was even a thing! Fast-forward a bit, and […]
Content Delivery Networks (CDN) have been around for years, and as long as they’ve been around, there has been some confusion as to what they are and what they do. In today’s post, we will show exactly how a CDN can help your business by looking into how Cloudflare implemented this technology. What Is a Content […]
AlpineWeb is pleased to announce the addition of Premium Email to our Hosting Services. Learn More Premium Business Email Premium Business Email FAQs Premium Business Email Features According to research data as much of 75% of a company’s intellectual property is stored and sent via email. Premium Email allows you to focus on your business […]
A new well-designed phishing email has been aimed at cPanel users recently, and we want to help our users stay safe. What is Phishing? Phishing, by definition, is the act of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication such as […]
Beginning in late July 2018, Google’s Chrome web browser will display a “Not Secure” warning to users visiting websites not using HTTPS. The HTTPS protocal utilizes an SSL certificate installed on a website that encrypts the traffic and data that passes to and from a users web browser and that website. Encrypting data with HTTPS […]
Alpine Hosting Plan Refresh In keeping with our commitment to the needs of our Web Hosting Customers AlpineWeb has moved to increase the available Disk Space of our Alpine Hosting plans. A high percentage of our Customers are using WordPress to run thier websites. Most of these WordPress installations were installed and are managed with […]
After helping a customer reset a password for their e-commerce application recently I told them about LastPass. Now I’d like to share the password management solution that we’ve found to be indispensable. LastPass helps you create and manage secure passwords for email, websites and more. For the AlpineWeb staff, LastPass is a solution […]
Work has begun on patching the recently released vulnerabilities known as “Meltdown” and “Spectre”, with the CVEs of: CVE-2017-5754, CVE-2017-5753, and CVE-2017-5715 on your server(s). More information on these vulnerabilities available here: https://www.alpineweb.com/backroom/announcements/57/Meltdown-and-Spectre.html If your server(s) are running a Linux-Based operating system, they will be patched and automatically rebooted over the next 48 hours. Due to the severity […]
ICANN’s New Transfer Policy came into effect on December 1, 2016 setting out new rules regarding changing or updating a domain name’s registrant contact information. What is the New Transfer Policy? The Transfer Policy, formerly known as “Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy” or IRTP, sets out how domain transfers should be handled. Up until now, this policy […]