Category: SWS Blog

What is Reputation Management?

What is Reputation Management? Any successful business or organization will need to manage its reputation with potential new customers. In today's online world, a company's reputation can go from hero to zero overnight, and the really sad part is you as the business owner really…

What is Shared Hosting?

What is Shared Hosting? Shared website hosting is where a hosting company will host more than one website on a server. This is a very common practice in the industry and almost every hosting company does this here is why. If a server costs $1,800…

What is a Dedicated Server and Do I Need One?

What is a Dedicated Server and Do I Need One? A dedicated server is a server that hosts just one website at a time, or in some cases one client at a time. This client may host several websites on their Dedicated Server. Dedicated servers…

How Many Websites Can A Server Support?

How Many Websites Can A Server Support? This is a great question and one that I think deserves an answer. However, that answer isn't going to be really straightforward as there are several variables that can change. But the way the modern website is set…

What is Black Hat SEO

What is Black Hat SEO? Black Hat SEO is the direct opposite of White Hat SEO. In Black Hat, the concept is to get great results, period at all costs. This very often includes unethical tactics that are later picked up by Google, which in…

What is SEO?

What is SEO? SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the process or technique of improving your website/blog so that it ranks higher in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) on Search Engines (SE) like Google, Bing Yahoo, etc., for certain keywords. Typically people focus on appearing…

Is Your Printer Spying On You?

Is Your Printer Spying On You? Did you know that many color laser printers print tiny, nearly invisible yellow dots in a pattern that identifies the printer that printed the output?(photo from Wikipedia)I'm not joking and this isn't something out of some SCI-FI movie, this…

PHP Security Flax Fixed

PHP Security Flax Fixed On 02-17-2022, fixes and the vulnerability report (CVE-2021-21708) were released. A proof-of-concept exploit based on using PHP to query a database shows that the bug can be used to crash the PHP process, so a working Denial of Service (DoS) attack…

WorPress Plugin Updraft and Updraft Plus need to be updated

WorPress Plugin Updraft and Updraft Plus need to be updated A new 'vulnerability' has been exposed in Updraft and Updraft Plus. Updraft and Updraft Plus are WordPress plugins that are designed for backing up, restoring and cloning your WordPress installation. It is described as "The…

Gaping Security Hole discovered in WordPress Elementor plugin

Gaping Security Hole discovered in WordPress Elementor plugin To be specific, the vulnerability is in the popular Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress. This is a premium plugin that is used to add features to the Elementor plugin and the solution to fix is…