Secure hosting environments

You don't need a new website. You need to make your current website more effective! How can you do that? There is no single answer -- websites are part of a larger system, and you need to consider many different aspects to make your site effective. We've been making websites since the start of the web, and know what makes them work -- as well as not work. Take what we have learned to make your site better!

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Website Availability - handling an outage

How do you get a website back up, when it goes down?

Dev Corner

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Ask Freelock: Do I need a Web Application Firewall?

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Is your host a single point of failure?

Just ran across a sad story where Digital Ocean is accused of killing a startup:

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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

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Drupal and WordPress maintenance

This baseline service keeps your site safe, secure, and up-to-date. We actively apply updates on a monthly basis, test every release, and resolve issues related to updates that break critical parts of your site.

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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:

Is your website safe from a cyber attack?

As I write, we're in the midst of a big Ransomware attack. Millions of computers have been infected, with their data encrypted, held ransom pending an extortion payment or deleted. Supposedly.

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6 things to consider before the next AWS outage

Yesterday Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a major outage in their US-East datacenter, in Virgina. It made all sorts of national news, largely because it affected some major online services.

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11 Questions Businesses need to ask themselves when choosing a Drupal host: The Comprehensive Freelock Hosting Guide

When choosing any service provider, a crucial question is, "What happens if something goes wrong?" When you're choosing a hosting provider, we like to dig a bit deeper, and ask what risks are likely to be an issue for you?

Here are some of our questions:

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