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Important Update: Upcoming Pricing Changes
At An Honest Host, our commitment has always been to provide you with reliable and superior hosting services. Today, we need to share some important news about upcoming changes to our pricing structure. Why Are Prices Changing? In our continuous effort to offer the best hosting experience, we have to adjust to the changing costs…
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Exciting Hosting Package Updates
Created with OpenAI Image Generation Changes to plans have been made live! As promised in our last post, we are following up with the changes that have been made to our hosting packages. To start, all of our systems are now provisioned in AWS, which we discuss our reasons behind the move in this blog…
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Elevating Performance, Flexibility and Security: Embracing AWS & The Move to AlmaLinux 8
We are committed to providing our customers with the best hosting experience possible. Today, we are excited to share a significant milestone in our journey to enhance performance, flexibility, and security. We have recently migrated our shared hosting infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and upgraded our servers to AlmaLinux 8. These changes lay the…
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Free Web Hosting Q&A
Do you have questions about web hosting? We are offering a free online Q&A (Powered by Zoom) for people that have questions about web hosting. This is open to the first 100 people that sign up below. This Free online Q&A is open to everyone, not just customers of AnHonestHost. We will do our best…
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Shared vs Cloud hosting
Shared hosting refers to a plan that hosts multiple websites together, sharing resources on one server, and has been around since the beginning of web hosting history, unlike Cloud hosting which, thanks to its newer technology, enables a site to be hosted on a cluster of servers, which allows it to be moved to another…
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A guide to hosting your real estate website
A guide to hosting your real estate website Whoever first said ‘you should never judge a book by its cover’ was clearly not thinking about the not-too-distant future of the internet. For the importance of an online home to businesses nowadays is vital – especially to the real estate sector. Yet if having the best…
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Switching to PHP7 for Default PHP on Shared Servers
We have supported PHP7 from the start (even compiling it ourselves before it was supported in cPanel); but for compatibility reasons, we have left PHP 5.6 as the default for our customers on shared servers. But, as PHP5.6 ages, we want to encourage our customers to update their code to run on more up-to-date versions…
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July 12th – Battle for the Net
You may have noticed a screen like the one imaged above popup if you visited the site on July 12th, 2017. This is because The Internet is in danger, again (and again, and yet again). In 2015, laws were put in place to protect Internet users (personal and business) from the ISPs, classifying the IPs as common…
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WordPress Vulnerability in the Wild
Security Company Sucuri recently announced that they had found a Content Injection Vulnerability in WordPress Core, stemming from the recently included (in version 4.7) and enabled by default WordPress API feature. The vulnerability would allow a malicious user to use the Rest API to edit pages and posts, inject shortcodes or even run PHP directly if certain…
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Latest Security Alert – Dirty CoW
CVE-2016-5195, Also known as “Dirty CoW” is a Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.6.22 and higher. This impacts some of the most popular OSs like: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x CentOS Linux 7.x CentOS Linux 6.x CentOS Linux 5.x Debian Linux wheezy Debian Linux jessie…
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