Website Availability - handling an outage
How do you get a website back up, when it goes down?
Security
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Ask Freelock: Do I need a Web Application Firewall?
Craig asks,
Create a deep redirect in a headless site
One of our clients has a custom surveying application built with a Drupal back end, and a VueJS/headless front end. They use this application to record observations in various buildings and sites that don't meet accessibility requirements.
They give their clients access to the front end. This application organizes observations into particular sites, in particular projects, grouped by the requirement. Each observation can have photos attached, along with notes and recommended solutions.
The privacy dilemma: 6 ways to improve your privacy online
Ask a teenager these days about why privacy matters, and they will say it doesn't -- there is no privacy anymore.
But would you willingly put your credit cards out on a bulletin board, inviting anyone to buy stuff on your dime?
Automatically generate or find images to go with your content
Today's website designs tend to use photos and images to make them look good. If you have your own photography or in-house illustrator, that's almost always going to give you the best result. But if you don't, this is something that can be automated with Drupal's AI module.
The AI Pixabay Automator can search Pixabay for relevant stock images that are free to use, and attach them to an image field.
The AI Image Generator can take your content and feed it into an image generator.
Insight
What do you need to know about your website? What don't you don't know? Freelock's new Vision Plan covers a different topic each month, doing a deep-dive to highlight a specific topic area related to the fundamentals all websites need to consider: Reach, Engagement, Delivery, Security, Performance, and User Experience.
Assessment of May 8 Drupal Security update SA-CORE-2019-007
New versions of Drupal core dropped today, to fix a file handling issue.
After assessing the patches, statements, and risks associated with this update, we have decided this is an important update to apply, but not urgent for most of the sites we manage.
Ask Freelock: "Traditional hosts" vs "cloud providers"
A client asks about yet another hosting option:
The VPS-2000HA-S includes the following resources:
6GB RAM (burstable)
150GB SSD Disk space
5TB Monthly Bandwidth
4 free dedicated IP's
Website Security Audit
Our data-driven and interconnected world has created a lot of opportunities. It has created many luxuries that have made our lives and businesses better. In all likelihood, we’re likely to see more interconnections and further benefits to society and business as data becomes even more widespread. Providing us with the data that we need to make informed decisions is a good thing, and it should be commended. Unfortunately, it should also be protected. There are many that could stand to gain from gaining access to data illicitly.
This is Why You Need Another Backup
At 12:27pm, our alerts started firing. Multiple ones -- website down, server down, secondary monitoring -- one of our client's servers had completely disappeared off the Internet.
Security
Security is a cornerstone of what we do. All of our ongoing plans include our "Protection Plan" service to keep your site safe, up-to-date, and well backed up. We also provide:
Services
You probably don't need a new website. The longer a website is online, the more value it gains. Google crawls your pages. Other people link to your content. Your "Domain Authority" builds up.