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Brute-Force Attacks Continue to Target Customers
Go DaddyOver the past several days we have seen a sharp increase of brute-force attacks on our system. These attacks attempt to gain access to customer accounts that have weak passwords. While these attacks are nothing new – our Security team identifies and defeats dozens of them every day – this current wave is sophisticated and [...]
Why Your Business Needs to be Online
Gen_HTechnology has shaped the way we do business today. Basically, everything is and can be done online. But without a website or Web presence, businesses miss huge opportunities: more business, better engagement with customers, that little thing called ROI. Here are five reasons why your business needs to be online: 1. Expanded Audience: How else [...]
Tips for Choosing the Right Hosting Plan
You want a website for your business. You know it’s important. However, wading through the alphabet soup of acronyms you come across seems like you’ll need a PhD in CSE. To be honest, there’s merit to your apprehension. Software engineers’ top priority isn’t making one solution for every problem (because that kind of magical solution [...]
Playing Hide and Seek with WordPress Links
With the release of WordPress 3.5 you might notice the Links section is missing from the main admin navigation. Using the Link Manager, you can update blogrolls and manually add and remove navigation links from their website. Back in the day this feature was pretty neat, but it’s now considered outdated and cumbersome — which [...]
WordPress Welcomes Elvin
Named after the beat master Elvin Jones, WordPress® release 3.5 is now available in Go Daddy Hosting Connection®. Here are a few highlights: Adding and organizing media with drag-and-drop functionality A new default theme boasting a streamlined look and responsive design that displays on multiple devices More detailed information when upload errors display A leaner [...]
Get Lazy in a Good Way
We’re excited to announce another Go Daddy open source contribution. Say hello to our little friend, Lazy Social Buttons. Lazy Social Buttons is a WordPress® plugin that delays the initial loading of social media buttons. This, in turn, spares the initial page load from the 300kb+ download requests for social APIs. Here, see for yourself. [...]
Updates to the Hosting Control Center and Domain Control Center
We’re excited to announce a new, unified header for the Hosting Control Center and Domain Control Center. Our development team designed the header so it’s easy to toggle between the two control panels. And guess what? We’ll incorporate the Email Control Center soon! Check out the new header: In the Hosting Control Center, the [...]
Preview DNS and WordPress Content
Be careful when using WordPress® with Preview DNS enabled on your site. WordPress uses full URLs to link to your images and posts. If you use Preview DNS to create content, then your site uses the Preview DNS domain name for your URLs. This is bad for two reasons. First, search engines index the wrong [...]
WordPress Plugin Performance Profiler (P3)
Check out our new WordPress® plugin developed by our in-house WordPress whiz kids. The Plugin Performance Profiler does just what its name says. It creates a profile of a plugin’s performance by measuring its impact on your site’s load time. Often, WordPress sites load slowly because of poorly configured plugins or because there are so [...]
WordPress 3.3 is Here
The latest and greatest version of the WordPress® software is available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress release 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, has some notable updates to point out: Uploading files is a breeze File type detection — Once you upload a file, the [...]
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