A recent survey conducted by hashedout, revealed that 49% of the biggest websites built with WordPress are not running WordPress’ latest version. As the most popular CMS in the world with over 60 million users or 30% of websites running the script, it is a huge target for several cyber threats (source-wordpress.org) WordPress version releases: 2018 marks 15 years since WordPress was first introduced to the world. It has undergone quite a transformation since then.…
In the days of yore, we heard about the natural calamities – floods, storms, earthquakes. Experts and governments used to discuss ways to contain them and take measures to make good the losses faced. With the advent of the 21st century, the world was introduced to the ‘Internet’, which has gone down in the annals of the human history. However, along with all its blessings, the internet also brought along its issues, with privacy invasion…
Security has always been of utmost concern when it comes to users and their data. Be it web pros, resellers or the customers, all of us use computers, servers and mobile phones in some form or the other. All of these devices work with an inbuilt processor. In this post, we’ll decode the confusion and commotion that has left the IT industry in a disarray with recent security vulnerabilities, that was found to affect Intel…
What is Bad Rabbit Ransomware? Ransomware attacks are on the rise and, the recent one that’s making headlines this week is the Bad Rabbit Ransomware. The malware is said to be linked to the previously released Petya ransomware and inspired by Game of Thrones as the code contains references to the Dragons featured in it. Bad Rabbit ransomware has affected corporate and media houses in Russia and Ukraine and appears to be affecting Turkey and…
What is Locky Ransomware? After WannaCry and Petya, another ransomware seems to spreading like wildfire, taking a hold of computer systems all over the globe, this time it’s being called Locky. The Computer Emergency and response team (CERT) under Government of India has raised an advisory on the spread of Locky Ransomware via spam emails. CERT-In published Alert regarding the spam campaign spreading Locky ransomware https://t.co/hzbuyDLjvB — CERT-In (@IndianCERT) September 3, 2017 Quoted from…
Choosing a billing system tailored to your needs is an important decision you need to make to seamlessly manage your hosting business and customers. Through this blog, I hope to equip you with the all the information you need to choose the best billing system to accommodate all your hosting business needs. Read on to know more! Billing platforms today go beyond receiving payments and providing technical support services, they also meet specific needs of…
We promised to bring WordPress hosting to you by the end of March and we’ve delivered! Yes, one of our most awaited launches, WordPress hosting is now live on the ResellerClub platform. WordPress thrived owing to its impeccable user-experience and is considered to be one of the most well-known and widely used comntent management systems for hosting websites. Let’s run you through why our WordPress hosting can help you deliver excellence to your customers. Why…
If you or your customers plan to transfer a domain name in the near future, read on to find out about new policy changes that may impact your transfer process. Through this blog we hope to cover the following points, What the IRTP is How this impacts you What ResellerClub is doing to aid you in this process FAQ’s What is the IRTP? ‘The Inter Registrar Transfer Policy’ is a new transfer policy by ICANN…
With a view to providing a level playing field to Indian Service Providers providing taxable ‘online information and database access or retrieval [OIDAR] services’ including electronic services in India, the Indian Government has made some revisions in its policies. The service tax exemption given to products in this category which may include Domain Names and Hosting has been withdrawn with effect from 1 December, 2016 for such services ‘provided in India’ by service providers located…
.EU completes 10 years in the industry & what a journey it’s been! As we all know, .EU is the only extension that applies the “Made in Europe” concept online. More than simply being an address on the web, .EU Domains helped your customers create a strong European presence for their companies. Within a span of 4 months since its launch, the .eu ccTLD became the fourth-largest ccTLD in Europe, preceding other domain names like…