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Dullahi:
This is very informative. I have a question though. How possible is it to migrate an already purchased domain to a Nigerian Host?

We have at least a recent case: ogoninewsng.com moved from Bluehost to Todhost.com very recently without issues. Nigerian hosts can sometimes be better. Even in terms of applying penalties, I tell you the truth, Nigerian hosts are more tolerant than these foreign hosts because they understand that some of the things people do are done out of ignorance and not to commit a crime.

Deciding on where to host your website can be difficult and time-consuming as it is not so easy a decision to make. There are a few considerations you will want to make from the outset even before deciding on some other more technical aspects of your web hosting expectations.

These will include the available disk space, available bandwidth, cost of web hosting, technical support, server reliability and available tools on the web hosting platform.

We have covered some of these in greater detail in an earlier publication and will like to recount:
Remember that the choice of your web hosting company will significantly determine how successful your web hosting business can be. It would be wrong to build a high traffic website and choose a hosting plan that can’t support it. So, understanding your web hosting needs is necessary before choosing a web host that you may use for years to come. Here are some of the most important considerations you need to address before choosing a web host.

Be Aware of Your Budget

Web hosting is often seen as an unnecessary expense, especially when starting up a website, which makes it tempting to grab the first free or low cost offer. But actually, web hosting is an investment that can prove to be highly rewarding in the feature.

Decide on the Type of Hosting

It should be obvious that not all types of websites need the same level of hosting performance. Consider the nature of your website before you begin looking at the different types of hosting.

In general there are three types of servers for hosting:

Shared servers: This is the cheapest type of hosting due to many sites being put on the server. You will have limited resources, but if you’re just putting up a small blog or personal website shared hosting may be sufficient.
Dedicated servers: As the name implies, a dedicated server means that only your site will run on that specific server. This is the most reliable option, but does not come without a higher cost. Depending on the size of the server and other hosting features, dedicated servers can cost you from less than a hundred a month up to thousands.
Virtual servers: Not quite a shared server or a dedicated server, and the price reflects that as it is usually in between the other two options. You don’t have full resources like a dedicated server, but your site won’t be interfered with if other sites on the server are trying to hog resources. It’s a good option for professional websites that aren’t too large or complex.

If you expect that your website traffic will grow considerably over time, talk with potential hosts and make sure that your hosting is easily scalable.

Tech Support

There are many different levels of tech support these days. If your website is responsible for income, you’ll want to ensure that any problems you have are solved as soon as possible, look for 24/7 support. If you just have a small personal blog, this probably isn’t as big of a deal, but check for support with technical things like setting up a website if this is your first project. Finally, hosting companies typically offer support primarily through one channel. Whether you prefer email, phones, or online ticket-based systems, find a host that offers it. Having managed IT services is something to look for in a company because they have people on the clock all the time unlike other companies who handle their own IT.

Also read: How to Choose an Affordable Web Hosting for Your Blog

Customer Reviews

Companies can claim all sorts of things, but you won’t know if they deliver until you actually hear from existing customers. Try to find reviews online, or even better talk to someone you know that has hosting with a particular company. Beware of reviews that have affiliate links and may not be genuine. Use intricate, data-gathering tools to check out the uptime and downtime analysis for web hosts to confirm if hosts actual deliver what they promise.

Also read: How to Redirect a site to non-WWW and to WWW

Control Panel

If you don’t have a lot of experience working with websites, you will definitely want to pick a host that offers a control panel. Popular control panels like cPanel or Plesk are simple user interfaces that lets you easily modify your website. Some even contain plugins that allow you to install popular software like WordPress onto your domain name with one click.

Now that you know what you need to consider before purchasing hosting for your website, spend some time comparing your options and find one that is in your price range. Hosting can make your experience simple or very difficult, so choose right.

Also read: An Introduction to cPanel Branding

Does Hosting in Nigeria Make any Difference?

Yes! It does. The top web hosting companies in Nigeria rely on infrastructures in North America and Europe. It simply means that in terms of quality, there is no difference between what you get in Nigeria and what you can get in any part of North America and in Europe.

However, there are some advantages in localizing your web host:

1. Ease of payment: Where there are difficulties with making payments, it is easy to make a payment to a local bank and get your service activated. With frequent change in policies by the Central Bank due to the serious challenges with exchange rate fluctuations, making e-payments have become a problem and there had been reduction on spending limits and sometimes, some debit cards are simply not allowed to make e-payments to foreign accounts and on international websites. Hosting in Nigeria makes it easy to contact your choice web host to provide an alternative bank account to which you can conveniently make deposits.

Also read: Web Hosting Guide: VPS vs Dedicated Server

2. Support: Most Nigerian hosting providers have a direct GSM line which you can call and get instant support. In some cases, they could have a physical presence in the city where you live and that makes it quite easy for you to resolve issues.

3. Budget: If your intension is to spend less on web hosting, then subscribing to a Nigerian hosting provider will be a good choice.
Warning: most cheap web hosts can be a problem as they provide limited support and very minimal disk space. In fact, they may have to limit the amount of bandwidth available to you just to see that you are not using up too much for the low fee you pay for web hosting.

This however does not apply to every web host as some still offer unlimited bandwidth for every package the offer especially on shared hosting.

Also read: An Overview of a Todhost Dedicated Server Hosting

Beware of Bogus Offers

We have seen some web hosts offer unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. These are not impossible but they come with some conditions. If you carefully read the terms of service for every web hosting company, you will find that there some clauses which tend to prescribe how you can use their resources.

Unlimited disk space does not mean that you can load all the things on their server. There is a way you will use the resources and your account will be suspended for unfair usage. The fact is that a server is a computer and every computer is limited by its own space. So in practice, there can be nothing lie unlimited disk space. What a web hosting company who is offering unlimited space will do is to open the entire available space to you and not place a restriction. But that will be for as long as your usage does not threaten the business.

Unlimited bandwidth on the other hand is easier to offer and deliver as bandwidth are generally less expensive and are always massively available.

Most Nigerian web hosts will define the disk space and bandwidth available to you and this is considered a fair and honest business practice. It should be recommended that you understand the limits from the start so you do not get frustrated as you begin serious business and use much space on your chosen web hosting platform.

Hope this peice provides a goos enough information to help you with the choice of a suitable web hosting platform in Nigeria.

https://www.todhost.com/blog/what-difference-does-web-hosting-in-nigeria-make.html

stano2:
Ok..i thought initially I was going to see how these crimes cud be stopped

That is contained in the full blog article on Todhost. see link at the end of the article.

We have recently had this experience with two websites. Both websites produced a blank page but they had slightly different approaches to resolve because the extent of the impact or damage were different for both websites. We will take you through our experience with both websites and how we were able to fix the problems while we also explore extensively, how to address this problem of blank page when it affects your website.

Causes of The Joomla White Screen of Death

The Joomla white screen of death is definitely one of those extremely annoying problems like error establishing a database connection. It is quite a frustrating experience to be face with a white screen for your important website. You may not even have a clue on how to deal with the situation.

This situation can be caused by everything from damaged extension or outdated installed and published plugin. But what is irritating is that you do not see what is going on, because there wasn't any warning message at all you are left clueless to figure out what is the issue.

Read full blog post at: https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase/760/My-Joomla-Website-Displays-a-Blank-Page-What-Should-I-do.html

Useful URL Structuring Tips That Will Help Higher Ranking

Read full log post at: https://www.todhost.com/blog/useful-url-structuring-tips-that-will-help-higher-ranking.html

Available on Todhost knowledgebase: https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase
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Taking people un-aware and leaving many handicaped? Why can't we just rank easily aand start driving in lots of traffic + cash to our site? If you have ever wondered about any of these, keep reading..

The reason SEO (google) keeps changing and changing its algorithm is not far-fetched, "Google is trying to create an artificial intelligent machine, that feels, reads and think like humans".

If you've decided to learn search engine optimization and wonder what really works and what doesn't, then this guide is for you.

Many people including myself has used search engine optimization to grow small businesses, toy stores, large international and local fashion brands, and hotel chains...

One thing never ceases to amaze me — the power of SEO as an Internet marketing tool for growing any business. I have grown small businesses into giant companies in just one or two years — simply from working the client's site up to the top position in Google.

Unfortunately, learning how to use SEO is difficult, if not impossible, for most business owners, Internet marketers and even tech-heads. The reason is this, Browsing through the amount of information flooding the Internet about SEO is overwhelming.

In many cases, most of the advice published is either outdated or misleading. And the constant updates by Google makes it hard for SEO beginners and gurus alike to keep up with what works.

Anyways, I don't want to go in too much into SEO in this article, as the title explains already what this post is all about. "SEO TRENDS THAT DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE 2016 AND BEYOND"

In the early days of Google (over 15 years ago) Google started a smarter search engine and a better experience for navigating the World Wide Web. Google delivered on this promise by delivering relevant search engine results.

Internet users discovered they could simply type what they were looking for into Google and BINGO! users would find what they needed in the top results, instead of having to dig through hundreds of pages.

Google's user base grew really very fast.

It didn't take long for smart and entrepreneurially minded webmasters to catch on to sneaky little hacks for ranking high in Google.

Read full blog post at: Why SEO keeps changing the way it works https://www.todhost.com/blog/why-seo-keeps-changing-the-way-it-works.html

How to drive massive traffic to your blog and website https://www.todhost.com/blog/how-to-drive-massive-traffic-to-your-blog-and-website.html

kelvinnaira:
I have since sent a message bt no feedback from you.. Haven't u checked ur mail all these while?

Ok. You can send the article for publication. It should be published tomorrow.

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Joomla 3.6 is now available and you can update your sites to the latest version. Joomla 3.6 was originally announced to be a transitional release, that is, it was to be a release that will be leading to a major stable version - it should bridge the old version with an upcoming version. The Joomla team originally planned for this update to be called 3.5.2, with only a few minor fixes.

However, several new features were added. So, following Joomla’s versioning policy, the correct version number became Joomla 3.6. This isn't a blockbuster release, unlike Joomla 3.7 which may have several major new features. However, there are some nice changes. Here's an overview of 10 useful improvements that you'll find in Joomla 3.6.
Improvement.

1. A screen that shows all your menu items

If you have a large site, this will save you a lot of time. Some of our Joomla sites have over 20 menus and there's currently no way to search for a link without opening each menu in turn. Joomla 3.6 will have a single "All Menu Items" option, which should make it much easier to find links. The All Menu Items screen in Joomla Improvement

2. Create categories from inside articles

In Joomla 3.6, you don't have to go to the Category Manager to add new categories. You can create categories from directly inside your articles. Create categories from inside articles

3. Filter by Last visit date in User Manager

It's nice to know when a is user registered, but it's equally important to know when they last logged in. The User Manager shows the "Last Visit Date". Click "Search Tools" and you'll be able to filter your users, based on when they last logged in. The Last Visit Date in Joomla.

4. See the modules showing on particular page

It was never easy to see which modules were assigned to a particular menu link. That should now be easier, thanks to two changes in Joomla 3.6. First, when you're editing a menu link, the "Module Assignment" page is now more useful. You can hide Unassigned and Unpublished modules. Previously, this screen was cluttered because those irrelevant modules were always shown. Hide Unassigned and unpublished modules

Second, in the Module Manager area, there's now an additional Search box to help you find the modules assigned to a particular menu link: Search for modules only on a certain page

5. Delete All Cache button

This is a small but useful improvement: you can now clear the Joomla cache using a single "Delete All" button. Still, it's worth using the Cache Cleaner extension, which can put this same button on every page of your admin area.
Delete Cache button.

6. See which groups are linked to which user levels

Joomla's access levels are now a little bit easier to understand and keep track of. A usability improvement in Joomla 3.6 allows you to see which user groups are included in a particular viewing level:
Visible by User Group setting in Joomla

7. Permissions for editing menus

In previous versions of Joomla you can set editing permissions for all your menus. With Joomla 3.6, you can now set editing permissions for individual menus. Go to Menus > Manage, then choose a menu and click "Edit": Permissions for editing Joomla menus

8. You can reinstall Joomla

This is actually the change that prompted the release of Joomla 3.6. This feature was in earlier version of Joomla, but was removed and has now returned in an improved form.

You can update Joomla by uploading a new version of the Joomla core files. This is really useful if you need to reset your site, perhaps if you're experiencing glitches or are concerned that some core files may have been hacked. It's also useful if your server is behind a firewall or you otherwise can't contact the update servers.

Go to Components > Joomla! Update > Upload & Update to find this feature.

Traditionally, Joomla website update had involved three methods: writing files directly, updating with a url for the file source and updating by uploading an update file. All of them are good and I cannot speak of any major advantage of one over the other except speed. Writing files directly can be faster than most other update methods.

There are cases when you are unable to use any of the methods, a manual update method will work in such cases and I will show you how to get this done in this post.

Why Update a Joomla Website?

Regular update for your Joomla website will help you keep your website operational in terms of security, usability and performance. This is a very important process that every business has to take into account to ensure that their website is still at its best.
The world of Content Management Systems (CMS) is constantly evolving, and users are very often not fully aware of the changes that apply to their own websites.

Basic Checklist

Your website is like a setting up a building. It was designed according to a plan and it has an architecture where we can find different parts having a particular use.
A website’s architecture is conceived in a way that it reflects a certain aesthetic format, as well as technical aspects which make it functional for users.

Joomla! takes care of most of the functionality through the use of extensions. These extensions are ‘add-ons’ that usually save you from building your website from scratch with an outrageous amount of custom coding! However, in return, your role is to make sure those extensions are still active, secure, and updated, so that they can still ‘do the job’.

In a Joomla! website, you can find two types of extensions:
1. Core Extensions
Core extensions are built-in with Joomla! when it is downloaded, they handle the basic architecture of the website. They are essential and make the whole website functional.

2. Third Party Extensions
Third-party extensions can be found in the Joomla! Extensions Directory. They provide extra features, on top of the basic ones provided with the CMS.

Read full article here: A Guide on How to update a Joomla website manually https://www.todhost.com/blog/a-guide-on-how-to-update-a-joomla-website-manually.html

ezekielly:
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It will be better if you can take some time to review your blog yourself. This post will be helpful: https://www.todhost.com/blog/what-is-an-seo-audit-and-how-can-it-help-your-business.html

Search engine ranking is one single determinant of website success that webmasters should take very seriously. Due to frequent changes in ranking factors and algorithm updates, it is good to always keep up with what is and what isn't a ranking factor in search engines. Here are the latest thoughts by industry experts on search ranking factors and particularly Google Ranking Factors as they are in 2016.

Content & Links Building Are the Two Most Important Signals

Eric Enge noted in a post that he participated in a Hangout with Google's Andrey Lippatsev, Search Quality Senior Strategist, who was asked about the top 3 ranking signals, noting that RankBrain was announced as the third most important. "I can tell you what they are. It’s content and links going into your site," answered Lippatesev.

"When you aren’t facing page relevance or quality issues, links can, and do, continue to significantly impact rankings." said Enge.

"Backlinks remain an extremely important Google ranking factor," said Brian Dean founder of Backlinko in a recent blog post on Google Ranking Factors. "We found the number of domains linking to a page correlated with rankings more than any other factor."

Read more on Todhost Blog: How Google is ranking websites in 2016 https://www.todhost.com/blog/

kelvinnaira:
Nice one @Op.. Great article..

U really didnt hit the hammer of inter linking and networking within your page... The way i like to do it on my money blogs and clients website is to target a 2 word keyword with over 100k searches... It doesnt take upto 3months, i soon start ranking for all related long tail keywords and 5-8months after am on FP for that keyword. (though there is another side to that, which i wont share here)


As related to on page seo, a good rule is "be the reader of what you jusy wrote", when you are done, will you be like "oh crap" or "i think i should sell this information..

Words count for an article that has the potential to rank is usually not less than 1,500 with lots of multimedias..

Anyway, thanks for the info.. Lets i forget, i just published an article about "what doesnt work anymore in seo 2016/17" on my personal journal blog i long abandoned because of work and my work on my other money sites (on WP)... Feel free to check and tell me what you think..
http://www.mytechboard.com

i remain my humble small self.. Kelvin...

Great post. Would you mind send a copy to blog@todhost.com with permission to share your posts? You will be acknowledged for every post.

rareman:
Please can someone explain this SEO to me from a layman point of view, I have websites and blogs. That I will need to optimize. Any help from here please!

You will find lots of SEO resources on our SEO category at: https://www.todhost.com/blog/seo-amp-marketing-tips

buharisbae:
I've been trying to buy domain but I dunno how to go about it help explain

Simply visit: http://www.todhost.com to order

tosinbabe:
Nice blog! Love your template and theme, was it free?

It's a premium template. Though with some little customization. I presume you are referring to our template on http://www.todhost.com and not the blog template.

In today's competitive world of the internet coupled with the dynamics of search engine algorithms, Search engine optimization (SEO) is incredibly important and will likely be of increasing importace to marketers and website owners. When you optimize your web pages -- including your blog posts -- you're making your website more visible to people who are looking for keywords associated with your content and posts, brand, product, or service using popular search engines like Google.

But this is not an easy task and it can really be a huge and very technical task to master with Google's continuous and significant algorithm updates.

This post will attempt to provide a guide on what matters and what doesn't? What are today's blog SEO best practices, and what's considered "old-school" In this post, we'll cover how to optimize your blog posts for the targets you care about, along with a few other optimization tactics you should keep in mind.

How to Search Engine Optimize Your Blog Content

1) Focus on 1–2 long-tail keywords.

Optimizing your blog posts for keywords is not about incorporating as many keywords into your posts as possible. Turns out that'll actually hurt your SEO because search engines will think you're stuffing your post with keywords (That is, including your keywords as much as possible with the sole purpose of gaining ranking in organic search).

But that's not cool with search engines, nor does it make for a very good reader experience. Instead, you should use keywords in your content in a way that doesn't feel unnatural or forced.

A good rule of thumb is to focus on one or two keywords in each blog post. This will help keep you focused on a goal for your post. While you can use more than one keyword in a single post, keep the focus of the post narrow enough to allow you to spend time actually optimizing for just one or two keywords.

Using long-tail keywords may be more efficient to this end, since website visitors searching long-tail terms will often be more qualified. In other words, you'll bring in the right type of traffic -- visitors who convert -- by using long-tail keywords.

2) Include these 1–2 keywords in specific parts of your post.
Now that you've got your one or two keywords, it's time to incorporate them into your blog post. Where are the best parts of your posts to include these terms so you rank high in search results?
There are four essential places where you should try to include your keywords: headline, headers and body, URL, and meta description.
a) Title
The title (i.e., headline) of your blog post will be a search engine's and reader's first step in determining the relevancy of your content, so including a keyword here is vital.
Be sure to include your keyword within the first 65 characters of your headline, which is just about where Google cuts it off on search engine results pages (SERPs). Technically, Google measures by pixel width, not character count, and it recently increased the pixel width for organic search results from approximately 500 pixels to approximately 600 pixels, which translates into around 65 characters.
Long title? When you have a lengthy headline, it's a good idea to get your keyword in the beginning since it might be cut off in SERPs towards the end, which can take a toll on your post's perceived relevancy. In the example below, we had a long title that went over 65 characters, so we front-loaded it with the keyword we were trying to rank for: "on-page SEO."
b) Headers & Body
Try to mention your keyword throughout the body of your post and in the headers. That means including your keywords in your copy, but only in a natural, reader-friendly way. Don't go overboard at the risk of being penalized for keyword stuffing. Before you start writing a new blog post, you'll probably think about how to incorporate your keywords into your post. That's a smart idea, but it shouldn't be your only focus, nor even your primary focus.
Whenever you create content, your primary focus should be on what matters to your audience, not how many times you can include a keyword or keyword phrase in that content. Focus on being helpful and answering whatever question your customer might have asked to arrive on your post. Do that, and you'll usually find you naturally optimize for important keywords, anyway.
c) URL
Search engines also look to your URL to figure out what your post is about, and it's one of the first things it'll crawl on a page. You have a huge opportunity to optimize your URLs on every post you publish, as every post lives on its own unique URL -- so make sure you include your one to two keywords in it.
d) Meta Description
Your meta description is meant to give search engines and readers information about your blog post's content -- so be certain to use your long-tail term so Google and your audience are clear on your post's content. At the same time, keep in mind that the copy matters a great deal for click rates -- the more engaging, the better.


3) Make sure your blog is mobile-friendly.
It's been over a year since Google revealed that more people use the search engine on their mobile phones than on desktop. And for all those valuable search queries being done on mobile, Google displays the mobile-friendly results first. This is yet another example of Google heavily favoring mobile-friendly websites, which has been true ever since the algorithm updates of April 2015 and March 2016.
While responsive design and mobile-friendly websites have always been important for user experience, they're becoming more and more important for SEO as well. So if you haven't been focusing on improving your mobile experience, you'd better prioritize it now, or your search rankings could suffer.
If your website uses responsive design, your blog pages will only have one URL instead of two different ones -- for desktop and mobile, respectively. This helps your post's SEO because any inbound links that come back to your site won't be divided between the separate URLs. Any SEO power you gain from these links will be centralized, helping Google more easily recognize your post's value and rank it accordingly.


4) Optimize the meta description.
To review, a meta description is the additional text that appears in SERPs that lets readers know what the link is about. The meta description gives searchers information they need to determine whether or not your content is what they're looking for, and ultimately helps them decide if they'll click or not to click.
In addition to being reader-friendly (compelling and relevant), your meta description should include the long-tail keyword you are trying to rank for, because if we're doing blogging right, that keyword is representative of the contents of your post.
Note, it's not guaranteed that your meta description is always pulled into SERPs as it once was. More and more, Google has been pulling in other parts of your blog post that includes the keywords searched, presumably to give searchers optimal context around how the result matches their specific query.
The second is a result of the query "noindex nofollow," and pulls in the first instance of these specific keywords coming up in the body of the blog post:
While there's not much you can do to influence what text gets pulled in, you should continue to optimize your post for readability (see above). By creating reader-friendly content with natural keyword inclusion, you'll make it easier for Google to prove your post's relevancy in SERPs for you.


5) Optimize your images.
Blog posts shouldn't only contain text -- you should also include images that help explain your content. But search engines don't just look for images. Rather, they look for images with alt text.
Because search engines can't "see" images the same way humans can, an image's alt text tells them what an image is about -- which ultimately helps those images be found in search. Alt text also makes for a better user experience, as it'll display inside the image container when an image can't be found or displayed, and can also improve accessibility for people with poor vision who are using screen readers.
Technically, alt text is an attribute that can be added to an image tag in HTML. Here's what a complete image tag might look like (bolding added for emphasis):
<img class="alignCenter shadow" src="image.jpg" alt="image-description" title="image tooltip">
Adding keywords to your alt text may seem minor -- and it isn't going to impact your search rankings as much as other things on this list. But it is worth the extra minute it takes to change the name from "IMG23940" to something accurate and descriptive, like "puppies-playing-in-basket:"

6) Don't use too many similar topic tags.
Topic tags can help organize your blog content, but if you overuse them, they can actually be harmful. If you have too many similar tags, you may get penalized by search engines for having duplicate content.
Think of it this way: When you create a topic tag, you also create a new site page where the content from those topic tags will appear. If you use too many similar tags for the same content, it then appears to search engines as if you're showing the content multiple times throughout your website. For example, topic tags like "blogging," "blog," and "blog posts" are too similar to one another to be used on the same post.
If you're worried that your current blog posts have too many similar tags, take some time in the near future to clear them up. Choose about 15–25 topic tags that you think are important to your blog and that aren't too similar to each other, and then only tag your posts with those keywords. That way, you won't have to worry about duplicate content.
7) Use URL structures that help your visitors.
The URL structure of your web pages (which are different from the specific URLs of your posts) should make it easy for your visitors to understand the structure of your website and the content they're about to see. Search engines favor web page URLs that make it easier for them and website visitors to understand the content on the page.
Note that this list doesn't cover every single SEO tactic under the sun. Rather, these tips are meant to get you started with improving SEO for your blog in particular.


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For every website owner, it can be very frustrating to wake up to find that yor website has been exploited. An eplotaion could take the form of, but not limited to, spamming, malware injection and an outright hach. Sometimes, security breaches can destroy years of hard work and reputation. It can simply force a website owner to terminate the content that has earned ythe traffic and start building from scratch. That means you must take the security of your website seriously.

Like we noted earlier, website security is very important for every one and remains a key problem to tackle as far as the internet keep evolving throwing up newer and even more complex chalenges.

Developers continue to come up more and quite effective ways to tackle web security issues. Notwithstanding, the peoblem is unending as newer challenges come up. In this post, we attempt to come up with what we consider the best approch to protect a website. Our recommendations are strictly based on our experience with content management systems like WordPress, Joomla, Magento and Drupal.

The recommendations we have provided here are not necessarily the only ways to secure websites, However, we found that it resolved nearly all security problems we had with websites hosted on our network. Now let's get started,

Basic Security Guide for Every Website

1. Be password-savvy: This is an issue that has been re-emphasized over and over again. If your password is still “Password@123,” it’s time to get serious. Create unique codes for each of your accounts, and make sure they’re at least 8 characters long (with a few special ones thrown in). I suggest you use the cpanel password generator if you have access to your website control panel.

2. The security of your email is as important as that of your website. This is because every website is always linked to an email address. Ths is one key area that has been neglected but it's as important as the other items. However, it should also be mentioned that most website hacks have not been linked to weak email passwords. I will still recommend you take your email security important to be protected all round from those who will go all out.

Which is the Most Effective Way to Secure a Website? https://www.todhost.com/blog/which-is-the-most-effective-way-to-secure-a-website.html

Joomla is a favourite software at Todhost. We have built hundreds of websites with Joomla and despite publications on the future of Joomla which were not so palatable, we have always insisted on Joomla and still stick to Joomla. However, we are beginning to do a re-think on wether to switch from Jommla to WordPress or not and here are the reasons why we are considering a switch from Joomla.

Many persons have very strong opinion about Joomla. It is their opinion but the points made here need to be strongly considered. It does not suggest that the end of Joomla is coming and it is not a call to switch your CMS. It is only a warning sign for you to consider and watch closely to how the Joomla community will respond to all the issues and save the script from its declining trend.

Is Joomla Really Dying

Joomla is certainly not doing well. Despite the celebrations of Joomla’s tenth year, the fact point to a decline in searches for Joomla on Google. The users of Joomla are certainly dwindling.

Also read: How to create a blog with a Joomla website

What’s Responsible for tis Downward Trend?

When compared to WordPress, Joomla is a much more powerful CMS in several ways. It also its weaknesses relative to WordPress.

But Joomla’s future is shaky and here are the reasons Joomla is not doing so well.

1: Joomla is run by committees with no strong decision maker.

Companies have CEOs for a reason. They need one person who can make decisions—difficult decisions for which they take full responsibility. Joomla doesn’t have one. It’s run by committees.

Read full blog post at: https://www.todhost.com/blog/10-reasons-why-joomla's-future-is-uncertain.html

You should have several options to do this. Before you decide, you need to consider the space needed for your your site, the traffic it will attract so you may have to consider the bandwidth allocation for the hosting plans available to you. Most of the time, all other hosting features will not be too significant for your need.

But you also need to know if cPanel will be available. This is because if you ant to transfer your site to another host, cPanel makes it easier.

We recommend https://www.todhost.com for your hosting needs.

Simple Machines Forum or SMF is a free online community builder. One of its main advantages is that its template structure allows full control over your message board and integration with your website. It is feature-rich yet resource efficient bulletin board.

The SMF forumboard allow management of the options and settings of the news and newsletter section within the Simple Machine Forum application.

In order to access the news and newsletter section you should login as administrator of your forum and then navigate to Administration Center>News and Newsletter. Please place one news item per box. BBC tags, such as [b], [i] and [u] are allowed in your news, as well as smileys. Clear a news item's text box to remove it.


The “News” page

This feature allows you to display a short news message. When the SMF is installed by default there is an SMF - Just Installed message. You can modify this message to some custom message as you wish. just click on the Click here to add another item after you write the message press the Save button under the section.

Newsletters and Announcements in SMF

This feature is very suitable if you need to send an email to some forum members or all members of your forum. You can check to whom you would like to send email from the checkboxes under the Membergroups. Once you are done with the selection of members, you can proceed to the Advanced section of the Newsletters page. On this page, you are able to see several options:


Email Addresses - Here you can add additional email addresses to send them the newsletter too
Members - you can add additional members to receive the newsletter
Excluded Groups/Members - Here you can select groups or members that absolutely can not receive the newsletter under any condition
Override Notification Settings - Send this to members even if they have chosen not to receive announcements

Manage Newsletters in SMF

The “Settings” page

On this page the administrator of the forum can change the settings and permissions related to news and newsletters.



Groups allowed to edit news items - Select a groups that you would like to allow to add and edit news items
Groups allowed to send out forum newsletters - Select a groups that you would like to allow to send newsletters
Enable XML/RSS news - Allows people to link to the RSS feeds of recent posts made on your forum
Maximum message length - Here you can specify the maximum amount of characters to show for each RSS feed item

Read full blog post at: https://www.todhost.com/knowledgebase/759/Managing-the-Simple-Machine-Forum-Board.html