Don’t lose your visitors!

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When writing posts in WordPress and including links to other websites, it’s important to always check the “Open in new tab” option while creating the link. Otherwise, the linked page will open in the same browser tab, causing visitors to navigate away from your website.

Never let visitors leave your site when redirecting!

The “Open Links in New Tab” plugin makes it easy for you! After installing and navigating to Settings > Links in new tab, you can select the option to open ALL external links in a new tab. From then on, you won’t have to manually check this option for each link.

Convenient, isn’t it?

By keeping visitors on your website for longer and preventing them from losing your site when they click on a link, you enhance the user experience.

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Will FSE (Full Site Editing) make website builders obsolete?

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In June-July 2021, the first elements of FSE, or editing a complete website with blocks, are scheduled to be introduced in WordPress 5.8.

Currently, you can only edit the content using the Gutenberg editor. But what if the footer, sidebar, and header can also be created using the Gutenberg editor?!

In that case, you won’t actually need a theme because you won’t see much of it. Maybe not even a web programmer or designer. Right?

The latter is often the fear of many designers, but it’s not realistic.

Even though it becomes “easier” to build a website because it can all be done with one tool (Gutenberg blocks), creating a beautiful and well-functioning website still requires expertise.

You can’t learn to create a well-functioning business website from a book or by tinkering with blocks alone.

Shared webhosting

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Actually every hosting package is shared, renting a server quickly costs hundreds of euros per month and nobody wants to spend that.

So what does the web hoster do? It cuts the server capacity into parts.

Important to realize with Shared web hosting

The number of websites you share the server with can impact the loading speed of your website. With the cheapest hosting packages, you may be sharing a server with 100-250 other websites!

Het risico van een Shared server

  1. Als 1 van die websites in een “loop” beland – het oneindig herhalen van een servercommando kan de server traag worden waardoor de laadtijd van je website zomaar omhoog schiet naar 10-15 seconden. Een loop wordt niet altijd even snel ontdekt en kan weken doorgaan.
  2. Als een website op de server aangevallen wordt met een DDOS aanval kan jouw website onbereikbaar worden. Dit is meestal met 1, maximaal 2 dagen opgelost doordat de webhost de aangevallen website offline haalt of verhuisd van server.
  3. Als websites campagnes starten, advertising kan dat zorgen voor bezoekerspieken waardoor je website tijdelijk traag wordt. Dit kan meerdere keren per maand/jaar voor blijven komen.
  4. Als een website door malware geïnfecteerd raakt kan die gaan spammen, dat betekent dat er honderden e-mails vanaf de server verzonden wordt waardoor de server na enkele dagen tot een week op de blokkade-lijsten komt te staan van veel internetdiensten zoals internet-providers, e-maildiensten. Daardoor word e-mail van jouw website ook geblokkeerd!

The Risk of a Shared Server

  1. If one of those websites ends up in a “loop” – the infinite repetition of a server command, the server can become slow, causing the loading time of your website to skyrocket to 10-15 seconds. A loop is not always detected quickly and can go on for weeks.
  2. If a website on the server is attacked with a DDOS attack, your website can become unreachable. This is usually resolved with 1, maximum 2 days as the web host takes the attacked website offline or moves it from server.
  3. When websites launch campaigns, advertising can cause visitor spikes that temporarily slow down your website. This can continue to occur several times per month/year.
  4. If a website gets infected by malware, it can start spamming, which means that hundreds of e-mails are sent from the server, causing the server to end up on the blocking lists of many Internet services such as Internet service providers, e-mail services after a few days to a week. As a result, email from your website will also be blocked!

The consideration, shared hosting package or not?

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Small informative website

If you have a small informative website such a Loop or DDOS attack will not make much difference, the web hoster usually makes sure that the server is up and running again within 4-48 hours and your website will be accessible again.

The Shared hosting packages you often have already for 3-10 euros per month, which are often called “Basic, Standard or Starter”. They usually host many other websites.

Webshop

If you have a webshop with many visitors, it is best to choose a hosting package with fewer other websites.

For a webshop package you pay between 25-50 euros per month. Such a package is called a Webshop, Business or Premium package.

Large corporate website or high-traffic website

And if you really want to be sure that you are not bothered by other websites, for example if you have a high-traffic website with thousands of visitors, then take a Dedicated package. Then you have an allocated server capacity that is separate from other packages.

For a DDS, which you can best get Managed, you quickly pay 55-150 euros per month.

Summary: don’t choose the cheapest hosting package of 1-2 euros per month when your website is an important source of income for you that you can’t miss for a day and take a package higher when you have a webshop.

 

NOTE: Often you will see a package that does not cost 10-50 euros per month but only 1-5 euros per month. This is often only for the first few months!!! After that you start paying full price. So pay attention to that before you buy a 50+ euro package that you have to start paying monthly.

Disclosures from the WordFence security whitepaper

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WordFence is 1 of the biggest in malware protection, they have an excellent firewall that they use to stop attacks from millions of unwanted IP addresses.

Now they have written a white paper (which you can read here) with new revelations in the field of security and also where most problems arise.

  1. Websites that are not maintained
  2. Plugins that are no longer updated by programmers
  3. Nulled plugins are still being used.
    These are plugins that actually have to be bought but are provided for free by criminals. Free is not the right word, since you pay by means of the malware that the criminals put on your website via the Nulled plugin.
  4. Most successful hacks still come from brute-force guessing of usernames and passwords.

Are you already aware of the above 4 points? There are many more in the whitepaper!

123456 not the most popular password after nine years, which one is?

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According to NordPass, a ‘password manager,’ ‘password’ is currently the most used password in the world. However, ‘123456’ remains very popular – Notwithstanding that it has been number one for years, it is still very commonly used, we currently encounter ‘123456’ in second place.

NordPass recently released the results of its annual survey of the most commonly used passwords. The survey was conducted in 30 countries.

Is your password among these?

Act fast is the message, change your password today before it’s too late.

No idea how best to create a “secure” password? Here are some tips :

Tips for securing your passwords

1. Create long, unique passwords and never reuse them.

2. Strongest passwords consist of Complicated combinations of numbers, uppercase letters, lowercase letters and symbols.

3. Use a password manager. such as Dashlane, among others This technological solution encrypts stored passwords and enables secure sharing. Too often passwords are still stored in an excel sheet, which makes it very easy to retrieve passwords.

Still no idea how to compose a secure password, you can also use a password generator, of which many free versions can be found. e.g. lastpass.com can be used to generate a password.