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5 Ways to Spot an Average Hosting Provider
The only efficient business website is the one that converts, which certainly depends on multiple factors including reliability of a web..
3 Ways to Backup Your Website: Backup Awareness Month
June is the Backup Awareness Month, so the team here at Crucial are getting behind it and helping customers switch their focus to their..
Guidelines on How to Handle a Security Breach on Your eCommerce Website
Security breaches are on a constant rise and despite all the time and effort you may have invested into providing a maximum level of..
OnApp, Chapter 3: Now and the Future
Earlier this year I brought you chapter one and chapter two of our OnApp journey. In the first chapter I looked at how we came to the..
Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late: Check if a Site is Safe from HeartBleed
A recently discovered security bug named ‘Heartbleed’ has affected websites over the last week and a half, bringing millions of personal..
OpenSSL Heartbleed Security Update
On April 7 the OpenSSL Project released an update to address a detected vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) in their software. OpenSSL is a..
We’re Beefing Up Our Web & Reseller Hosting Servers
The brains in our SysOps team have upgraded our Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting servers with some great new performance and security..
OnApp, Chapter 2: Cloud Familiarisation
In my previous blog post I explained how we made the decision to roll out OnApp as our underlying cloud platform rather than continuing..
Benefits of Using a CDN: Bringing Content Closer to Your User
A CDN (content delivery network) is a network of geographically distributed locations (also known as: POPs, or point of presences) setup..
OnApp, Chapter 1: Sourcing the Ideal Cloud Platform
In late 2012 we embarked on a major overhaul of our brand, the Virtual Server line-up, and the flagship Cloud VPS product. The end result..
Crucial Mobile is Live!
Great news for our customers today as we’ve launched our Crucial Mobile iPhone app! The app is FREE and works with all OnApp powered..
Why Website Backups are so Critical
It’s important you don’t get complacent with your website hosting company and rely on them 100% for your backups. While there are plenty..