by James Smythe | Feb 9, 2018 | Hosting, Security
We love WordPress, and nearly all our sites are now developed in it, everyone else loves it too as it also powers 43% of the sites on the Internet. Unfortunately, that means it is a prime target for hackers. There is no point searching for an exploit in software that...
by James Smythe | Nov 7, 2017 | Hosting
One of the things we pride ourselves at Dolphin Promotions is our technical skills, and one of these skills includes hosting. All our sites are hosted on dedicated servers that we fully manage ourselves. We carry out all the server updates, handle all your backups and...
by James Smythe | Sep 5, 2017 | Hosting, Security
The internet traditionally ran over HTTP for everything that was not needed to be secure, the data between your computer and the server is passed over in a none encrypted format. Unfortunately, over the years data breaches, security exploits and hacking, in general,...
by James Smythe | Mar 25, 2017 | Hosting, Security
Google published its State of Website Security in 2016 today, reporting that there was a 32 percent increase in the number of hacked sites in 2016 compared to 2015. Google added that it doesn’t expect the trend to slow down anytime soon. Google said that these hackers...
by James Smythe | Mar 22, 2017 | Hosting
PHP is the programming language used behind 82% of the sites on the web, but it hasn’t really had a major release in over a decade with PHP 5 being released in 2004. Even PHP 5.5 is 4 years old. PHP 6 was abandoned due to various issues and finally, PHP 7 was...
by James Smythe | Sep 10, 2016 | Clients, Hosting, News
Following on from our previous post about free SSL on WordPress websites. Google has now announced that from January 2017 any website using an unsecure HTTP connection that has any form of password login or credit card forms will now receive an “Not Secure” warning....
