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Deflect y eQPress

By: dmitri On: August 29, 2017 DDoS, Help Comments Disabled

Sobre Deflect El proyecto Deflect es un servicio que disminuye las afectaciones de un “Distributed Denial of Service” o Ataques distribuidos de denegación de servicio (DDoS). DDoS se refiere al intento de hacer un aparato o red (network) no disponible para el usuario. Deflect neutraliza los cyberattacks contra medios independientes y defensores de derechos humanos. […]

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 […]

Migrating Your WordPress Site to Us

By: dmitri On: June 24, 2015 Help, Hosting, Migration Comments Disabled

If you already have a working WordPress site that you wish to move to eQPress, the first thing you need to do is sign up with Deflect and specify that you would like to move your existing website to eQPress, providing us with the first and last name of your admin (they don’t have to […]

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If your computer cannot reach a certain website this could be because your local DNS resolver’s cache contains an outdated record.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 […]

Moving Your Site to HTTPS

By: dmitri On: November 26, 2014 Blog, Help, Hosting, Security Comments Disabled

HTTPS (adding an S for “secure” to HTTP) is an internet communication protocol that protects your users’ connections to your website. Data sent using HTTPS is secured in that HTTPS provides 3 layers of protection: Encryption: while the user is browsing a website, nobody can see their conversations, track their activities in the website, or […]

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 […]

Changing Your Database Password

By: dmitri On: April 09, 2014 Help, Hosting, Security Comments Disabled

We are serious about our passwords here at Deflect. You might have noticed our 23 random character passwords for your WordPress admin user we generated during the installation of your site. That’s the kind of password that will keep your site safe from brute force and dictionary attacks. The random.org site provides some tools for […]

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 […]

The Best Options for Email Subscriptions with WordPress

By: dmitri On: February 03, 2014 Help, Hosting, Plugins Comments Disabled

The best option is to use MailChimp to manage your subscriber lists and also to send the emails. There are plugins that can integrate with your MailChimp account but even that is unnecessary if all you want is to add email addresses and then send emails when you write a new blog post. The way […]

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 […]