Keep Your Backup Space Organized
When I was younger and living with my mom I did not have a lot of space to spare in my room. Every single spot was well thought out for best usage. Man, I remember how I had to hang two bicycles above my bed ; one for road biking and one for dirt … glorious days. Each year I thought to myself that this is it, this year I am moving out! But…
GDPR Compliance Process [Revised May 23rd, 2018]
The much awaited “GDPR” (General Data Protection Regulation) unveiled by the European Union will come into effect on May 25th, 2018. JetApps has been hard at work implementing this process of data privacy and the “right to be forgotten”. We are happy to announce that JetApps is now fully GDPR complaint. We are also committed to helping clients bring their businesses to full compliance as quickly as possible. GDPR Key Terms In order to better…
Passwords That Last
We often talk about backups and how important they are. We have emphasized that it is vital to make sure that our data is safe and secured, available for immediate restoration and disaster recovery. We’ve covered the issue of the affordable JetBackup license pricing and it’s ease of use. At this point I’d like to talk about something we all use daily – passwords. When people hear that I am from the hosting industry…
4 Reasons to Use Jetbackup
There is a good reason why we chose JetBackup as our main product of service. Think about it, most of our data today is digital and there are a bazillion websites out there. It seems that common practice for documenting our lives is blogging and social media. Ecommerce websites have seen massive growth over the past years and proven to be a cool source of income for whomever that can manage the few clicks it…
Denial-of-Service Flaw in WordPress
A serious application level denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in the WordPress CMS platform that potentially can take down most WordPress websites without the need of attacking with a massive amount of bandwidth, as usually required in DoS attacks. Since WordPress itself did not provide (to date) a patch, the vulnerability (CVE-2018-6389) remains and has an affect on most versions of WordPress including WordPress version 4.9.2 which is its most stable and latest…
We (really do) Listen!
I’ve been using online services and tools for quite a long time now … I guess you’d call me a dinosaur 😉 Along the years I have came across some great tools which I had no problem paying a substantial amount of money for in order to enjoy them. A tool that as a sysadmin, designer, musician, artist, etc. made my life easier and at the same time was pure fun was worth every penny….
Disaster Recovery in 5 Easy Steps!
Every service provider aims to deliver 99.99% uptime, a noble goal indeed. However, reality proves that outages can and do occur from time to time. Whether it be scheduled maintenance, network failures, DDoS attacks or just a clumsy tech who stepped on a cable (yep, you read it right) , downtime will rear its ugly head in many forms. Last week, a client from one of our sister companies had a networking failure at their…
Real Simple Data Protection
In the IT/Hosting world the word “easy” almost never sounds right, right? Implementing new technologies, learning new languages, staying on track with the latest information and managing systems isn’t really easy. In most cases it was made easy only after someone invested enormous amounts of time and effort to make it easy. Data protection is no different. If you’ve been around for a while you are aware of the frustration related to restoring…
Top 5 Reasons to Update Your Website
Here’s a scenario for you: You are getting ready for an important meeting with a prospective client and need to present new products on your website. You log into the admin area of your website and notice that there are some crucial updates to be made. You click the update button and let it run. Once the update is finished you turn to the product’s page in order to update what’s needed and the dreaded…
A Backup Tale
Once upon a time there was a really important server which hosted a really important website. This website served a lot of people and they loved it. The website’s owners invested lots of time, effort and finances, and employed lots of talented guys and gals to develop, design, edit and maintain it. One day, a vicious hacker attacked the server, found a security hole and was able to totally destroy the beloved website hosted…