by Nikole Garcia | May 11, 2016 | Business, Security, Web Tech |
This is long. You may want to get comfy and grab some popcorn. First of all … I felt it was only fair to give this exchange some context by showing you a video that explained what I was asking the host (Bluehost) to do for my client. So, here it is: Secondly...
by Nikole Garcia | Apr 4, 2016 | Security |
I had a client contact me recently because her host had said she was hacked. I set to work on her site, cleaning it and transferring it to a new hosting account. In the meantime, she received another notice from her host. This one said: The compromised files detected...
by Nikole Garcia | Oct 9, 2014 | Security, Web Tech |
As I work with a lot of clients whose sites have gotten hacked or infected, I get to see a lot of e-mails from the support staff at various major hosting companies. Our first introduction typically starts with the client forwarding me a notice from the hosting...
by Nikole Garcia | Jun 12, 2014 | Web Tech |
"Why is my site so slow?" is a question I get asked a lot. It’s not always an immediate thing — sometimes a site slows down over time, or after some changes have been made. But in general, there are a few things that nearly always contribute to a...
by Nikole Garcia | Apr 3, 2014 | Web Tech |
A friend of mine went to his website to log in the other day, and all he saw was this: Without so much as an e-mail, his "lifetime plan" at his web hosting company went down in flames, with only the hint that they might be able to find his data if he...
