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With the creation of the internet, the term “IP address” entered our vocabulary. This somewhat mysterious sounding term, actually refers to something relatively understandable and very useful in our technological age. IP address is the abbreviated “Internet Protocol” address after the Internet Protocol, which is the set of rules which governs how data is sent […]

Web hosting is a service that allows companies and organizations to publish a website to the Internet. Web hosting companies are the ones who provide all of the technologies that allow for this functionality. They do this by purchasing or leasing space on a server in a data center that is connected to the Internet. […]

A slow website will leave users waiting and frustrated. To assure this doesn’t happen to your website, use Pingdom. It is a free, online tool which tests the performance of your website. The tool provides an overall performance grade, the number of requests, the load time, and the page size. It also compares the load […]

    Any WordPress site is potentially vulnerable to a brute force login attacks.  Brute force login attacks occur when an attacker continually tries different username and password combinations from a pre-set list (think password1, password2, password3, etc.).  The attacker will continue trying different login combinations until one works.  Most brute force attempts are automated.  There […]

If you are looking to improve the security of your WordPress website, you might consider restricting access to the wp-login.php login file. A great way to do this is thru the use of an .htaccess file. Sample code is below. This code should be placed in the .htaccess file of your root directory (assuming your […]