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How We Solved A Major SQL TLS 1.0 Problem

October 1, 2015 1:32 pm Published by Hostek Documentation Team

We had a customer who was working on PCI compliance – and failing scans due to weak ciphers and TLS 1.0 being enabled. We have some information about PCI Compliance in our support wiki describing what is disabled on our shared servers and why. Since we help customers obtain PCI compliance by providing guidance and a secure infrastructure we thought this would be a simple task that we are familiar doing. We have a PowerShell script for disabling weak ciphers and outdated protocols on Windows Servers (Windows VPS Hosting in this case). We ran the script and completed the process by rebooting the server....
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4 Questions To Bounce Back From Hosting Problems

September 24, 2015 2:37 pm Published by Hostek Documentation Team

Let’s talk about a developer who is taking over a new project for a new client. This new project is a beautifully wrapped disaster waiting to happen. A mixture of ad-hoc development and a few dedicated servers from who knows where. Sound familiar? This is one reason businesses abandon custom development in exchange for SaaS website building platforms. To avoid the risk of developers who create partial solutions that lack long term thought & little documentation. The cost is massive for hosting problems like this. The options available today for businesses are endlessly overwhelming. But there’s hope because smart companies are leveraging...
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The #1 cost associated with best price hosting

September 18, 2015 2:44 pm Published by Hostek Documentation Team

The internet makes it easy to shop high and low for the best deals. You can find coupons and discounts all to help the cost go down. But at what price? Does getting the best price with your hosting mean you’ll suffer? Let’s talk about the ways people search for hosting, and what questions they should really be asking before buying. There’s also a HUGE reason that price might indicate something. Distribution vs Amazing Products We can probably all agree that McDonald’s doesn’t have the best hamburger – however they can distribute like no other. They get the products to...
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3 Overlooked Benefits Of Using A Control Panel

September 11, 2015 8:32 pm Published by Hostek Documentation Team

We get asked frequently about control panels and if they are included in the hosting we offer. We talked about our Windows Control Panel & why we built it. Our motivation was to make the managing sites easier – for us and customers. We didn’t describe WHY it makes things easier specifically. There are some amazing reasons to use a control panel for Windows Hosting or Linux Hosting. Some design & development companies want a dedicated server and want to control their server. They will buy a VPS and then find out that a Control Panel for Windows VPS or cPanel...
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