3rd Jul 2015 | Defeating spam, General Information, Security and Safety
As part of my bid to live a healthier life, I have started to visit the gym regularly. It’s gets me into a good mood before work starts, it adds regularity and routine. It’s a good thing.
As I look around I am impressed by the years of commitment that the other folk have put in.1 I also noticed that some of them would put their weights and platforms and other bits in any convenient space, which is often just in front of the fire door.
It always reminds me of the phrase of a buildings inspector, ‘What time have you booked the fire?’ Obviously, you don’t know when the fire will be, so you should keep the fire exits clear at all times.
Similarly, with website security: you don’t know when the hackers or other disaster will strike. Your best defense is to ensure that your website software is all up-to-date with relevant patches, that you have security software installed and, in case all that fails, you have a backup stretching back six months (with a rapid restore option). You could do all that yourself, or you get us to manage it for you, as part of our ‘safe and secure websites’ package for WordPress. As added security, we have just added ‘noCaptcha re-Captcha’ (no more illegible text to decode, just simple questions and a tick-box) as a security option to both Woo Commerce and our website forms.
1Aside: I remember, when I joined the gym, that they showed me the range of health foods/food supplements that they had. I pointed out that if I could eat myself healthy I would be an Olympic athlete. Being in IT isn’t the best for ones physique.
17th Jun 2015 | Consultancy, e-Commerce, Event Bridge, Extract/Transform/Load, Transferring, Web Hosting, WordPress
If you have an e-Commerce website, there is a high probability that you are using either WordPress e-Commerce or Woo Commerce. In recent months, e-Commerce seems to be losing support from plug-in writers. Added to that, Woo Commerce is being bought out by Automaticc (who? the people behind WordPress).
So, it seems to be a pretty good time to move from WPeC to Woo. If you have tried any of the converters, you will probably find that they don’t quite work. Not much good if you are trying to keep your site live AND move platform.
Cloud Genius has a solution – with our expertise in Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) we use some of the best tools around, with a little magic of our own to help you make the conversion.
Talk to us about converting your site today.
21st May 2015 | General Information
Just to let you know that Event Bridge is now fully compliant with the new Eventbrite API (v3).
What does this mean?
Event Bridge just keeps on working!
If you use both Eventbrite, the world-class event booking system and Salesforce, the number 1 CRM system. You need to get your marketing information from Eventbrite to Salesforce.
Event Bridge just keeps on working in the background, creating new Salesforce Contacts and Leads from your Eventbrite events. It keeps them all marshalled into beautiful Salesforce Campaigns. Even better, it uses incredible matching technology to help eliminate duplicate entries.
For more information, just visit Event Bridge.
21st Apr 2015 | Security and Safety
This week we have seen one of the biggest benefits of Open Source – security. Stick with me there is a BIG benefit for you. (Open Source means that the code the programs are written in is available for everyone to see.)
Joost de Valk, who writes many plug-ins for WordPress, became aware of a security flaw in some of his plug-ins. WordPress and its plug-ins are also open source, so he checked other plug-ins and found that they had the same vulnerability. He was able to work with those plug-in writers to fix the flaw. If they were all using Closed Source this would not be possible. This affects some of the big-name plug-ins such as Gravity Forms, Jetpack… See the article at https://yoast.com/coordinated-security-release/
The benefit for you is two-fold:
1) By updating the plug-ins in WordPress you will fix this vulnerability.
2) If you are signed up for our Safe and Secure Websites package we will do it for you! (And check that everything works for you, and back-up your site beforehand and every day.)
4th Mar 2015 | Domains
Since Cloud Genius Ltd relocated to Wales over two years ago, we have been proud to serve the people, companies and charities of Wales.
As of this week it became even to show off this distinctiveness. The .WALES and .CYMRU extensions are all now available for purchase.
So, whether you want to go to cloud-genius.wales or cloud-genius.cymru you will arrive at our site.
As part of my bid to live a healthier life, I have started to visit the gym regularly. It’s gets me into a good mood before work starts, it adds regularity and routine. It’s a good thing.