PCI Compliance Scans and Small Business Gripes

Just as more government regulations tend to strangle a small business to death (worse case) or slow its growth (best case), so goes for PCI Compliance standards which add little to no practical value to security. Some house keeping first in terms of going over some...

Making WordPress more secure

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Let me share steps you can take to make your WordPress site more secure against hackers. Please note a number of the steps I will share are listed on Hardening WordPress, Official WordPress Codex article. In May 2011, I...

Find the hacker

I received a phone call towards noon today from a hosting provider in Florida who, after spending days of trying to locate the source of spam coming from sites they host, needed expert help to locate the source of the problem. While they knew the domain names of sites...

DDoS and the SMB Hosting Provider

It started yesterday morning when one of our managed service customers in Spain put in a support request stating Apache was down. They shared the error logs showed they exceeded the default Max Connections. We both made the mistake of assuming this was just business...

Can you find high value web hosting?

One of the joys I have as steward of Dynamic Net, Inc. is getting to converse with other small business owners. I’ve found you stay in touch by being in touch. The most recent topic of discussion in the Linked To Lancaster LinkedIn group was the need for every...

What do I need from Dynamic Net to be PCI Compliant

What are the services you need from Dynamic Net, Inc. once you’ve made the decision you want to have a fully integrated (i.e. the customer never leaves your web site) PCI Compliant hosting experience? Maybe you’ve been one of our customers for years, and...