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Why We Don’t Whitelist IP Addresses

As a web agency that seeks to provide excellent hosting service we always want to ensure that our clients have safe and reliable service. Normally everything runs just fine, our clients can visit their websites and send and receive mail as they expect, not even noticing that our servers are blocking hack attempts.

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Programming Is Like Jazz

Jazz is all about breaking the rules in ways that enhance the music and make it come alive. Jazz is hot; it swings, it jives, it improvises, and it bucks convention to do this. Programming is like Jazz in a sense, sometimes you need to break the rules or improvise to make a harmonious website.

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Six Principles for Basic Email Etiquette

Crafting professional emails is an essential skill in today’s information-based and highly competitive world. Understanding proper conventions and avoiding internet faux pas makes a huge difference in how others perceive you and your business so your emails are taken seriously and don’t get ignored or dumped in the spam folder.

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What is a Video worth?

Sometimes you learn something, and the information is so weighty that it immediately changes the way you think… This stat led me down a rabbit hole learning everything I could on video marketing and the more I learned the more wow’d and convinced I was at how underrated and underused this magical tool is.

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What Can You Do About Website Security – Part 3

Many website owners think it would be nice to be able to manage their own website content but in reality don’t take the time to learn how to do it or to do it well. Many websites are riddled with security holes because of an outdated CMS and the owner isn’t even using it because they don’t have the time or know how.

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What Can You Do About Website Security – Part 2

Depending on the technical abilities and time availability of a company’s internal staff, many clients want to be able to manage the content on their website themselves. This is really the main reason why small business website security has become an entire industry.

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What Can You Do About Website Security – Part 1

Website security is a hot topic. It seems that everyone everywhere is having issues with insecure websites, hosting companies, website developers, hackers and knowing how to interpret it all. This is not a topic that is going to disappear anytime soon, if anything it’s only heating up!

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Pros and Cons of a Content Management System (CMS)

First, let me introduce you to the Wikipedia definition of a Content Management System or CMS. Wikipedia says that, “A content management system (CMS) is a computer application that allows publishing, editing and modifying content, organizing, deleting as well as maintenance from a central interface….”

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