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John Mueller affirmed on Reddit that the Core Web Vitals ranking factor is more than just a tie-breaker, the Search Engine Journal reported recently. Mueller reportedly responded to a question on Reddit that expressed skepticism of Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor, whereby Mueller affirmed the importance of the tool.

WordPress is currently the most popular content management system (CMS) online. This is a free site that hosts personal blogs, small businesses and even large organizations. If the Core Web Vitals of the site is not optimal, they would lose users. Therefore, choosing the best WordPress host for your website is critical.

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In a blog post, founder and chief executive officer Emil Falcon said that the issue was caused by unauthorized activity by a third-party service provider.

“Based on our investigation to date, the morning of August 28 at approximately 6 a.m., an individual with a third-party service provider used their privileged account access to connect to one of our datacenter’s management portals and without authorization, initiated server reimaging on some of our backup servers, then on some of our production servers,” he blogged.

“Within only hours our incident response team had identified the issue and disabled access to the source account, preventing any further damage. The environment was secured, the individual fully locked out, and our disaster recovery plan…

Montreal-based web hosting provider Web Hosting Canada has revealed the cause of this weekend’s major outage.

In a blog post, founder and chief executive officer Emil Falcon said that the issue was caused by unauthorized activity by a third-party service provider.

“Based on our investigation to date, the morning of August 28 at approximately 6 a.m., an individual with a third-party service provider used their privileged account access to connect to one of our datacenter’s management portals and without authorization, initiated server reimaging on some of our backup servers, then on some of our production servers,” he blogged. “Within only hours our incident response team had identified the issue and disabled access to the source account, preventing any further damage. The…

By Warren Dehan  

Data security has come under greater scrutiny for all businesses in recent years, with larger fines and penalties being awarded for contemporary data breaches. This issue is only compounding as digital transactions take precedence over physical exchanges, and third-party partnerships become more important to maintain operations. Choosing the right partner and hosting environment for your property can be complicated, but the property-management system (PMS) selected will play a critical role in securing your confidential data.

Protecting your guests’ data is equally important as preserving their physical safety, but confusion still abounds regarding hoteliers’ level of responsibility for protecting guest data. It’s easy to understand why, with multiple ways to…

Montreal-based service provider Web Hosting Canada has still not explained the cause of a major incident Saturday that took customers on eleven of its servers offline, with the loss of data on five of the machines. Only two of the servers have so far returned to service.

As of Monday morning the company was not still answering its phone. Instead it directed callers to use its online chat service or create a customer support ticket.

It’s unknown whether the incident was a technical problem or a cyber attack.

On its website the company said five of nine servers had both their local storage and their external backup storage “heavily damaged.”

In a posting Sunday night at 11 p.m., it said its initial data recovery efforts on these five servers were unsuccessful. Attempts to recover…