Reading Time: 3 minutesAs 2018 comes to a close, you’re probably looking forward to making improvements to your business for 2019. You may even be looking for places to spend your marketing dollars. This makes the new year a prime time for phone calls and emails from people selling you marketing services. While many of these are legitimate, […]
Security
Domain Name Scams: Don’t Get Slammed
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s that time of year again. Year-end sales in home mailboxes. Last-minute bids for charitable donations. And domain name scams — notifications from companies you’ve never heard of, trying to convince you that they do business with you. You may have seen this before — an official-looking letter shows up at your office, from a […]
No, Virginia, You Really Don’t Need Google+
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week Google announced something most of us already knew: nobody is using Google+. At least, consumers aren’t spending any time there. While we’ve consistently advocated for having a public-facing business presence on Google+, we never saw much return on our investment there. It simply became a sort of “elephant in the room” in the […]
Is that website really SSL secure?
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the past year or so, the push toward SSL secure websites has been a huge focus in the web development world. The internet as a whole has been moving to a more secure place. The reasons for this are many and everybody should be rejoicing about it. Nobody likes to think about their information […]
ThirdSide’s Guide to GDPR
Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you noticed your inbox is even more full than usual lately? And that a lot of those emails are “just checking” to make sure that you still want to hear from this company or that blog or whoever? Thank the European Union and the GDPR. What is the GDPR, Exactly? GDPR is short for […]
Spectre, Meltdown, and your Website
Reading Time: 2 minutesWithin the past day, you may have heard news about Spectre and Meltdown. These two hardware bugs have been exploited in nearly every modern computer. This includes your personal computer, phone, and cloud servers around the world. What do Spectre and Meltdown mean for my hosted website? At ThirdSide, security is one of our top […]