WordPress Security Guide
Do you have your own WordPress website and want to make it more secure? One of our recent internet acquaintances, Alex, who is the Founder of BestVPN.org, has written an easy-to-understand comprehensive guide on securing a WordPress install. If your site was created by Ocala Website Designs LLC and hosted on our servers, your WordPress […]
Continue Reading...Gravity Forms Arbitrary File Upload Hack 2015
We absolutely love Gravity Forms. We use their product in each and every website that we create and host. Unfortunately, a recent security flaw was found which allowed a hacker to upload a php file to the uploads directory of WordPress through a Gravity Form. The other good thing is that we also use iThemes […]
Continue Reading...Which backup program should you use for Amazon S3?
Well, after doing a lot of research on where to backup my files, I found my perfect setup with Amazon S3 Servers … Then I checked out programs that would map a drive to the S3 storage , and ran across several different companies, but one that kept standing out was CloudBerry Lab. They offered […]
Continue Reading...Office365 Shared Calendar won’t open in Outlook 2013
Trying to setup Microsoft Outlook 2013 and connecting to a shared calendar from your Office 365 account, you get the error: We can’t complete this because we can’t contact the server right now. If you click the check box next to the shared calendar, you get the error. If you right-click and add the shared […]
Continue Reading...WordPress 4.0 Released!
Ocala Website Design Customers, If you are receiving this, you have a website hosted/created by Ocala Website Designs LLC. A new major release of WordPress (4.0 “Benny”) was released and I have updated each of your sites. I have also updated a slew of plugins with each site, and will continue to do so, as […]
Continue Reading...Massive Brute-Force Login Attack and Distributed Denial of Service Attack
For the first time in more than 3 years, we have suffered from a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDOS) caused by a Massive Brute-Force Login Attack. In an ongoing effort to make you aware of security and performance concerns, we wanted to inform you of an event that brought all websites down for about […]
Continue Reading...Import CSV into Sever 2003 DNS Active Directory Zone
You can import a list of items into your Microsoft Server 2003 DNS server’s Active Directory Zone. All you do is use Microsoft Excel to get your data straight, save it as a csv, open it in Notepad and replace all commas with spaces and then rename the csv file to .bat file. Then open […]
Continue Reading...Ocala Website Server – Overly Sensitive Firewall.
Ocala Website Design Customers, If you are receiving this, you have a website hosted/created by Ocala Website Designs LLC. You may have seen some interrupted services last night. The server became inaccessible, intermittently, last night between 3 p.m. till about 10 p.m. It was unrelated to the ongoing maintenance and security updates. I thought the […]
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