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Tag Archives: website security
Lost Your Website? Here’s How to Restore It
Losing access to your website can be a stressful experience. Whether it’s due to accidental deletion, a server glitch, or malicious activity, the good news is that recovery is often possible. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through how to restore a website and share preventative tips to help you avoid future data loss.
Step 1: Diagnose the Cause of the Website Loss
Before you can restore your site, it’s important to understand what caused the issue. Ask yourself:
What is the safest way to develop an online shop from scratch with real transactions?
Typically “from scratch” means to write the code from scratch. It could also mean to build it in a way that is customizable and not from a template, As a web developer, my go-to is UltimateWB. It has a built-in e-commerce app that you can use and customize. It is very secure and is easy to update. Plus, unlike Shopify and other hosted solutions, UltimateWB is downloadable software which gives you web hosting choice, and does not take a cut
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Tagged e-commerce website builder, online shop, online transactions, ssl, website security
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Should I use WordPress or UltimateWB to build an online marketplace?
Building an online marketplace is far more complex than building a standard website or even a typical online store. A successful marketplace often combines e-commerce, memberships, messaging systems, user-generated content, search functionality, vendor dashboards, payment processing, reviews, subscriptions, and sometimes even auctions or bidding systems - all within a single platform.
Because of this complexity, choosing the right foundation for your marketplace matters far more than many people realize. The wrong choice can lead to growing maintenance costs, performance bottlenecks,
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Tagged amazon style marketplace builder, auctions, bloat, build a site like ebay, built-in apps, core web vitals, crawl efficiency, Dokan, indexing, marketplace, marketplace plugin costs, member login website builder, ownership, scalability, search engine ranking, security issues, third-party plugins, user experience, website security, WordPress, wordpress alternative, WordPress alternatives, WordPress bloat, wordpress hacked, wordpress security, wordpress vs ultimatewb, YITH Auctions
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What are the most important things to consider when setting up security for your website?
Keep your website builder/platform upgraded, have SSL on your web hosting, have strong passwords. I also like to avoid using third party plugins - you can do that easily without being a coder by using UltimateWB. UltimateWB has a lot of built-in apps that are very customizable; you can build any type of website with it.
Got a techy/website question? Whether it’s about UltimateWB or another website builder, web hosting, or other aspects of websites, just send in your question
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Posted in Compare Website Builders, Website Security
Tagged artist website, artist website builder, batch watermarking, design website builder, designer website, download access, photo security, photo watermarking, photography website, photography website builder, photoshelter, portfolio website builder, secure digital downloads, secure downloads, squarespace, website security, zenfolio, zenfolio vs photoshelter
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How to reduce your website spam with a Contact Form vs Posted Email Address
Why Posting Your Email Address Attracts Spam
Spiders are not just the lovable daddy long legs like on "Honey I shrunk the Kids", or the creepy crawlers that give you the puffed up eye lid morning present. On the internet, they are used to "scrape" emails off of websites. So if you post your email addresses on your website you are prone to being scraped by one of these virtual creepy crawlers and getting on an unwanted mass emailing list.
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LinkedIn, a popular professional social networking website, and eHarmony, a paid subscription social networking dating site, both confirmed Wednesday their sites have been hacked. The breach in the database security was found when the hacker(s) posted the list of 8 million encrypted passwords on a hacker forum, asking for help to break the encryption code.
According to Sophos security reports, more than 60% of the passwords have already been cracked. Tech news site Ars Technica said it found about
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