We just finished upgrading PHP for a client from version 5.3 to 5.6. Even they had sent out notifications to their customers in advanced, multiple websites were not working after upgrading. The reason is that of outdated source code, which is incompatible with PHP version 5.6. There are reasons for PHP to change their core functions: … Read more
Domain name registration would be the first step, which an entrepreneur should do for starting an online business. It is a unique address that entrepreneur should reserve on the Internet. What is an Internet domain name & domain name registration Following the definition from Wikipedia, a domain name is an identification string that defines a … Read more
Working with entrepreneurs gives me many lessons. A lot of questions have been raised. That makes me think about a fundamental course for entrepreneurs about the services for websites of their business, related to their online brands. There is some basic information about those services that entrepreneurs should know. It would help them to choose … Read more
I had a quick chat yesterday with a new friend, who has been running a web design company for more than ten years. Email is very important to him and his customers. At first, he had many troubles with spam. Then he moved to Google platform, and he is happy now. Google acquired Postini in 2007 … Read more
In March, I wrote a blog post explaining why we offer subscription model for web design service, instead of one-time payment as other firms. I focused on security aspect in that post. Now, another aspect: user experiences – UX. When mentioning to user experiences, I need to say that I am not a UX expert. … Read more
At OsloNAP, we do web development. However, we are different. We believe that a website just likes your business, it is not finished after the first stage. As an entrepreneur, you have started your company and kept working and improving the business performance. You cannot predict what is happening in the future. The new business … Read more
Recently, a new vulnerability in glibc security has been published. Even it is happening in a system library, hacker can use end-user application to crack servers. There is a system library, named glibc, widely used in Linux distributions such as Redhat / CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu. Two functions, gethostbyname and gethostbyname2, in that library have vulnerabilities that … Read more
Earlier of this week, Apple released its first automatic security update for Mac users to patch the vulnerability in OSX connected to the network time protocol (NTP). A cloud survey report from KPMG (2014) shows that executives feel implementing the cloud has helped them improve business performance (73%) and improve levels of service automation (72%). … Read more
When an entrepreneur starts a new firm, she or he always focuses on the core product. It is nothing wrong. She or he should do that. The same situation with established businesses, they need to keep the core products and services running well. However, not many people pay attention to add-ons. It is a flavor … Read more
In a survey conducted in February 2012 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about 60% of US email users ages 18 to 64 said they had used email the day before. Daily email use is even higher among mobile phone users. Email technology provider Return Path found 88% of mobile phone users checked … Read more
We have just got a new client coming on board, utilizing our hosted antispam clusters. When I started talking with them, they faced to big trouble with their email system. Lot of spam was coming in, with virus of course. That made their staff annoyed and could not focus on daily work. The manager tried to … Read more
Yahoo changed their DMARC policy They have added “p=reject” DMARC record into yahoo.com domain. Basically, all messages sending from an email with yahoo.com, but not from Yahoo’s servers, will be bounced. While this policy can help Yahoo reducing amount of phishing emails from yahoo.com domain, it might bring trouble to website owners when they are … Read more