2013 - eQualitie

Deflect Labs Report #3 (3D rendering)

By: dmitri On: December 14, 2013 DDoS, Digital Security Comments Disabled

Botnet attack analysis of Deflect protected website blacklivesmatter.com Seamus Tuohy and eQualit.ie This report covers attacks between April 29th and October 15th, 2016. Over this seven-month period, we recorded more than a hundred separate denial-of-service incidents against the official Black Lives Matter website. Our analysis shows a variety of technical methods used in attempts to […]

Creating Your New WordPress Site

By: dmitri On: December 05, 2013 FAQ, Help, Hosting, Migration Comments Disabled

Whether you are a first time WordPress user or not you may need to build your new site while your existing site continues to run. If you immediately update your DNS settings to point to eQPress without having migrated your website yet, what you’ll see is a default installation of WordPress. That’s probably not what […]

Learning WordPress

By: dmitri On: November 09, 2013 General, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

Here are some great resources for learning how to use WordPress. The Official WordPress User Manual – https://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/ This is a living document created and maintained by the amazing and dedicated WordPress.org team. Easy WP Guide – https://easywpguide.com/ You won’t find any talk of HTML, PHP or creating WP Themes here. What you will find […]

Restricting Access to Your Website

By: dmitri On: July 16, 2013 General, Help, Hosting, Migration Comments Disabled

There are times when you want to prevent the world from seeing your website. One reason might be that you are in the process of designing and developing and don’t want to share your progress with the world, since it might not be ready for all eyes. Another reason might be that you only want […]

Removing the WordPress admin User

By: dmitri On: April 17, 2013 Help, Hosting, Security Comments Disabled

Brute-force login attempts are typically carried out against the “admin” user. “Admin” used to be the default username of the first administrator created when installing WordPress, but now the installation asks you what you want to name it, and on eQPress it will be your administrator’s name and surname (not necessarily the “official” ones!). If […]

Protecting Your WordPress Website

By: dmitri On: April 12, 2013 Help, Hosting, Security Comments Disabled

Hosted behind the Deflect network, eQPress is designed to prevent your site from getting attacked or hacked. Security is best practiced as a series of countermeasures against known vulnerabilities or threats. We provide the essential underlying protective layers and the rest is up to you. There is no protection against a weak password, so… The […]

Debugging the Dreaded “White Screen of Death”

By: dmitri On: April 12, 2013 General, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

If you are here because you recently installed a plugin, then take a look at this flow chart. Both PHP errors and database errors can manifest as a white screen, a blank screen with no information, commonly known in the WordPress community as the WordPress White Screen of Death (WSOD). Here are some basic steps […]

Can I get my own IP?

By: dmitri On: April 10, 2013 FAQ, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

Yes, if you require your own IP address you can purchase one for $10 per month.

How often is my site backed up?

By: dmitri On: April 10, 2013 FAQ, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

Backup are important so we take a multi-layered approach. The first is an enterprise level solution which encrypts all data and transfers the archives to Amazons S3. We retain 30 daily backups, and 15 weekly backups which will allow you to restore from archives that are up to 3 months old. The next layer of […]

When will my WordPress core get updated?

By: dmitri On: April 10, 2013 FAQ, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

WordPress periodically releases maintenance updates. These are typically for significant bug fixes or security issues. Since these upgrades might have security implications, and because WordPress’s popularity makes it susceptible to an exploit being quickly released, we attempt to apply these upgrades as quickly as possible. Here’s what the different versions look like: Major release: 4.1 […]

Antispam Recommendations

By: dmitri On: April 05, 2013 Help, Hosting, Security Comments Disabled

Spam is a bummer, as we’re sure most of you agree. Here are some antispam tools we’ve personally used. This first one is great. Anti-spam Pros super simple, no configuration integrates seamlessly with any theme free So far no cons. Crazy, right? Another strategy is to use 2 plugins together. For example, we’ve had excellent […]