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 [...]
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 [...]
Your connection is not private What is an SSL Certificate? An SSL Certificate establishes an encrypted link between a web server and a browser and it ensure that all data passed between the web server and browser remain private (concepts taken from ssl.com). The indication of a valid SSL Certificate includes [...]
What to do when you see this PHP Update Required on your Wordpress dashboard