I'm going to open this blog post up with a term you may have heard of if you've focused on developing websites before, Core Web Vitals. If you've not done any kind of design or...
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Nerds On Site Hosting: Summary of July 9 Hosting Incident
On Saturday, July 9, 2022, our Managed WP hosting platform suffered an outage, which lasted until Monday, July 11, 2022. This outage was caused, in part, by the actions of cyber...
Nerds On Site Hosting Announcement: New MFA Requirement for Managed WP Hosting
Following on the heels of the struggles our Managed WP hosting platform experienced over the weekend, our team has decided to implement a mandatory multi-factor authentication...
Nerds Hosting: Recommended Email Settings
For our valued clients using our Business Shared Mail service, here are our recommended mail settings: IMAP Incoming Mail Server: nos-mail.manageyour.host SSL: yes Port: 993 SMTP...
Supported Versions of PHP
The Nerds Hosting team is constantly working to improve our services and security, and the world of technology continues to iterate on the versions of all the software that we...
CloudFlare Bug Potentially Exposes Private Information
Nerds Hosting uses CloudFlare to power certain aspects of our hosting infrastructure, and thus we felt it important to share some thoughts on the CloudFlare bug that was exposed...
Benefits of SSL for a Website
SSL for websites has been free for all clients hosted with Nerds On Site for quite some time now. The uptake on this free feature has been very low so far, and you may wonder...
WildCard SSL Turned
Just over 1 year ago we announced that a WildCard SSL certificate (retailing around $42USD/$58CAD/R656ZAR per month) would be included in each and every Nerds Hosting account. At...
Nerds Hosting Concierge Service
Hosting services can be full of confusing jargon and buzzwords, and moving a domain name, website or email to a new service can seem overwhelming. If you are a client that just...