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Distributed Deflect – project review

By: dmitri On: March 23, 2017 Advocacy, Blog, DDoS, Deflect, General Comments Disabled

This is the fifth year of Deflect operations and an opportune time to draw some conclusions from the past and provide a round of feedback to our many users and peers. We fought and won several hundred battles with various distributed denial of service and social engineering attacks against us and our clients, expanding the […]

Creating a Hosts File Entry

By: dmitri On: September 30, 2015 FAQ, General, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

If you wish to access your domain before your DNS has been updated, you can update your local ‘hosts file’, which will allow your computer to view your new site. Follow the appropriate instructions below. Please note that this will work only with HTTPS and not with HTTP. If you need any help with this procedure […]

How to Flush Your Local DNS Resolver’s Cache

By: dmitri On: March 19, 2015 General, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

If your computer cannot reach a certain website this could be because your local DNS resolver’s cache contains an outdated record. For example, you updated your DNS records to point to eQPress but instead you are seeing your old website. This is when flushing your DNS cache will speed things up. Mac (OS X) In […]

Recommendations for Improving Your WordPress SEO

By: dmitri On: November 14, 2014 General, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

When it comes to search engine optimization (SEO), choosing the right WordPress theme framework becomes critical. Genesis does a great job of doing all the right things for search engine optimization (SEO). You will want to add some kind of analytics tracking to your site so you can gain insight about who is visiting your […]

Choosing a Canonical Website Address

By: dmitri On: October 07, 2014 Blog, General, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

Canoni-what? Canonical is the word used to describe the one address that you want the world to go to when they look you up. The typical choices are whether to use www in front of your domain or not. The classic example follows: http://www.example.com/ or http://example.com/ Choosing what your canonical website address (URL) will be […]

First Steps with Your eQPress Site

By: dmitri On: March 14, 2014 General, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

Your shiny new eQPress site is ready to go! Now what? Here are some recommendations. Enable “pretty” permalinks under “Settings” -> “Permalinks”. Typically “Post name” is a good option, but you can choose whichever setting you prefer other than “Plain”. The reason for doing this is two-fold: on the one hand, your URLs just look […]

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 […]

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 […]