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A ransomware attack has forced Managed.com, a well-known provider of managed web-hosting services, to take down all its servers. The incident happened on Monday, November 16, and impacted public web-hosting systems.

As a result, some customer sites were encrypted and no longer accessible. At first, the company said the attack only affected a limited number of customers, adding that it immediately took them offline. But hours later, Managed.com revealed it shut down its entire infrastructure and is working hard to fix the issue and restore all systems.

The web-hosting service initially labeled the attack as unscheduled maintenance. But it later admitted it was, in fact, a cyberattack as the tech support team sent emails to the affected and angry customers. The services that went down…

Websites that after the startup phase begin to generate significant data traffic, could present problems caused by the servers that host them. In fact, when the traffic increases, if the site is not supported by an efficient server, the data transfer is slowed down, compromising the regular visibility of the contents. 

The slowdown of the connection or waiting for the complete loading of a web page are often the main cause of users leaving the site. In addition to these user experience issues, a fast site is also necessary to avoid drops in SERPs. 

This inconvenience is in fact directly connected to the waste of Crawl Budget, a criticality that affects most websites but above all the more complex ones such as e-commerce or large editorial portals. It…