Website Hosting Website hosting companies have the resources and infrastructure to manage the complex tasks associated with running a website. They provide space on their servers for you to store all the files, images, videos, and other data that make up your site. This could range from static HTML files to [...]
Domain Name Hosting (DNS) is a service that allows you to register the domain name for your website. A domain name is essentially the name of your website that users will type into their browser to access your site. For example, "www.yourwebsite.com" is a domain name. The registration process involves [...]
Mail for Mac Setup There is a friendly and functional email client built into Mac called "Mail". 1 System Preferences -> Internet Account 2 Choose "Add other Account" (bottom) 3 @ Mail account [...]
Mail for Apple iPhone 1 Run "Settings" go to Mail 2 Accounts "Other" Go to "Accounts" Add Account type "Other" 2 Fill in Name, Email, Password and Description of account, Next Fill [...]
Cantrust recommends All In One WP Security & Firewall All new Wordpress installs will have the first section set up already. Please see the manual steps that need attention. * WP Security (side menu) -> User Login -> Login Lockdown: check: Enable Login Lockdown feature Max Login Attempts - set [...]
All Production Wordpress sites hosted at CanTrust need to have an effective caching plugin installed. What is "caching" and why does my site need it? By default Wordpress has no caching. This was just fine when Wordpress was being used to display simple blogs, back in the early 2000s [...]
WP Mail SMTP helps your WordPress site send emails. In order to send emails from WordPress and ensure their receipt from mail servers, your site will need a working E-Mail plugin. Years and years ago in the 00’s, a website could just send out an email and it would work. But [...]
CanTrust's Open Source email product is priced at $5CAD/mailbox monthly, which includes 5GB of storage per mailbox. Open Source email Our email solution is 100% hosted and backed up in Canada. Hosted on our equipment makes the data stored with us subject to Canadian data sovereignty laws and the enhanced [...]
There is a security epidemic happening on web stores now and for the past couple of years. All of the serious cybercrime gangs are regularly attacking and skimming Woo / Magento / Zencart powered sites. Their goals are the same always, (a) to steal the wp_users table and rest of [...]
Primary Access to the hosting backend access is done via encrypted SSH or SFTP connections. We run SSH/SFTP on a non-standard port of 22222. We also provide phpMyadmin access for web-based database debugging and administration. We do not provide cPanel, Plesk, Webmin, or other web based control panels. This is [...]