4 Best WordPress Security Plugins to Protect Your Site in 2022

The time has finally come. You’ve poured your blood, sweat, and tears into your most recent content piece, and it’s ready to be packaged up and sent to the client to be pushed live. After a few final checks and only…

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Top 6 Free Plugins To Speed Up WordPress in 2022

The time has finally come. You’ve poured your blood, sweat, and tears into your most recent content piece, and it’s ready to be packaged up and sent to the client to be pushed live. After a few final checks and only…

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Dedicated Servers – Features and Benefits

For business owners who are dependent on their online presence, it is important to have a dedicated server in place. A dedicated server is important to operate a website. It is, in fact, the most ideal solution for businesses with high-traffic websites.

Dedicated servers offer greater flexibility with improved customization and configuration. Dedicated servers provide you with everything you need to optimize and boost the hosting experience for your visitors or your clients. Having a dedicated server improves the level of security and increases the speed and up-time of your website. It also gives you the ability to go beyond the resource limitations that exists in a shared hosting environment.

Now why you should switch to dedicated server? Switching to dedicated servers offers a lot of benefits. It is a suitable option for those who have resource-intensive websites that have a lot of visitors.

Advantages of using a dedicated server include

  • Improved level of server security
  • Less chances of downtime due to high traffic
  • Better technical support in case of managed servers
  • Improved server reliability along with uptime
  • Options for upgrade as the website grows.
  • Optimum bandwidth and space.

When planning to upgrade to dedicated server hosting, there are three important factors you ought to take into consideration

  • Server reliability
  • Bandwidth and disk space
  • Technical support.

A dedicated server should have comprehensive security measures as well. A power generator or UPS for data back-up and a high-speed connection is of utmost importance. You have to ensure that the operating system you choose is capable of handling all the applications you intend to run. Windows and Linux are the two preferred choices. Having a strong and reliable technical support is another important consideration.

Dedicated servers are a preferred choice for small, medium, as well as large-sized businesses. While choosing a dedicated server, you need to ensure that the server host is able to provide all the necessary features you need to ensure growth and expansion of your website.

Which services should you use to be proactive?

DDoS protection is probably one of the most neglected dedicated server features. In this client-centered industry, no one likes latency or downtime. These days, DDoS attacks are getting abundant and expensive to mitigate. In order to keep your website up and running smoothly, you ought to use DDoS protection. This facility provides you with enterprise protection options.

Hardware failure is bound to happen, regardless of how much precaution you take. For those of you who do not have RAID setup for redundancy, you might lose your data.

Hardware RAID allows the technician to easily substitute the failed disk and bring your server back on track almost instantaneously. The data from the original hard drive will then be copied to the new one while your server is running and serving your customers.

Server management services help businesses concentrate on things that are priority. A server management team can act as an extension of the internal IT department, especially for large businesses, who can perform routine maintenance checks whenever required.

Together, by adding these services to your dedicated server hosting, you are ensuring that you provide your customers with the most stable service possible.

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Simplicity, Speed and the Internet Revolution

In the most competitive environment of Internet, simplicity and fast access to information are considered crucial factors to the success. To this end, first level domains new generations, known as Top Level Domains (TLDs), have been progressively gaining ground, and they are a promise of a revolution in the Internet world stage.

Currently, the most popular domain extensions are already stunned, so it is harder to get a good combination. However, a new ICANN initiative, a world entity in charge for the administration of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and country code top-level domain (ccTLDs) is innovating and bringing competition for the popular .com, “.net” and “.com.ca”. The project consists in considerably increase the existent domain extensions on the internet, and promise to really expand the possibilities of combinations of domain names, using new extensions as .global, .tech, .online, .top, .site, .shop and .auto.

The project expects to launch 1,300+ new generic domain extensions in the this years, a really impressive number, considering that only 22 gTLDs have been launched since 1985. Currently, millions of these registered new domains already exist around the world, and Brazil is among the 30 countries which have the most register numbers of these new extensions in the global ranking, staying behind of countries such as China, USA, Germany, and England.

With this movement, companies need to be prepared to protect their brands with new domain extensions that correspond to its areas of activity. Agencies, web developers, wholesalers, industries and entrepreneurs will have new opportunities to make their websites, campaigns, and online projects more creative and innovative. Besides, new endeavours will have several possibilities to find their desirable domain name.

There are several applications and benefits for new domain extensions. The first one is the simplicity to show the company activity area in its own URL, such as .software, .computer, .solutions and .hotel. This “self-description” makes brands, even more, relevant and memorable. Besides, the keyword in the domain name is an important criterion that may affect the relevance with search engines such as Google.

The second one was never easy to explain about services, products or online campaigns, as in the use of terminations .cloud, .host, .digital, .tickets, .top and .email, making them, even more, remarkable in the perception of customers and consumers. Another option is in the use of geography to reinforce the local identity, such as .rio, .london and .nyc.

Communities or specific group also receive its own identifications – such as .tech, which reinforces the technological context, and .dev or .guru, for developers or Internet professionals.

Giving merit to the importance of this movement, big companies already have its own extensions, as .globo, .itau and .sony. This brings a bias towards innovation and perceived value to the brand.

There are domain extensions and combinations for all kinds of businesses, communities, styles, tastes and trends, providing, with all of these, a remarkable experience in the life of customers and consumers. Just use the creativity, and it will be possible to find several combinations, such as: .social.project, guru.smith, ninja.support, marketing.agency, brewery.beer, style.fashion and so on.

Finally, this movement results in some marketing investment, cultural adaptation and depends on the natural evolution of the internet in the global scope. The thing is that this scenario is really creating a new opportunity for companies, entrepreneurs, and people to stand out in The internet and become even more competitive and innovative. And as soon as these segments are inserted in this context, the evolution of Internet in Brazil and in the world will happen faster.

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