What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?
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This past week the buzz-word floating about internet related conversations has been the drop out of a huge chunk of the internet related to an outage from the CDN provider Fastly. A good number of websites went out world-wide, and high traffic sites experienced either total outage or parts of their networks unable to be […]
Read moreWhat is a Progressive Web App?
For a long time, mobile apps have been the in thing. Businesses needed mobile apps to engage customers. To get your brand on their phones. But mobile apps have for a long time been expensive. And you need to develop an app for each of the various mobile environments – Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. […]
Read moreWhy do I need an SSL certificate?
Heres the thing… many websites don’t need one. Will the world break? Nope. Will you be putting your best face out to the world if you don’t have one? Well… not really. And this is the tricky bit. Most browsers nowadays will mark your website as not being secure if you don’t have an SSL […]
Read moreWhat is 2 Factor Authentication?
Its become increasingly popular for websites these days to request two factor authentication to be added to your login for extra security. This is a good thing… but why? And what is 2FA? There are lots of different ways to authenticate yourself. These get lumped into 3 main groups, called factors: Something you know ( ie […]
Read moreHelp, my domain has expired
[ Disclaimer: this is primarily written for the New Zealand context, so anything ending in .nz, but some parts are generally applicable ] Oh dear. Your invoice for domain renewal has landed at the wrong email address, or your existing domain name registrar has gone quiet. This is definitely less ideal, and can leave you […]
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