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We can finally sit back and take a minute to reminisce on the threats and challenges brought to the cyberworld by the pandemic.

Obviously, one of the biggest obstacles was automatization and moving to remote working. It completely changed our social life. The only way to maintain most human connections was through the Internet.

It saved many businesses and relationships. However, it brought a significant downside – an endless tide of cyberattacks.

To discuss this painful problem and to once again determine areas in which everyone should be the most vigilant, we reached out to David Carrero Fernández-Baillo, VP of Sales at Stackscale – a Private Cloud provider that offers a hybrid solution between the traditional environment and Public Cloud services.

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The economic turmoil around the world is a bitter reality that we’re all facing. And the incident has left online users with little to no choice but to search for website hosting services that are free of cost or cheaper in price.

New data and statistics from a number of reports have highlighted how free-of-cost web hosting has massively peaked. Moreover, it’s actually at its highest level than what we’ve seen in the last two years.

But the real question is how many of us are surprised by these figures? Remember, global inflation is a worldwide concern and when you’re forced to deal with high costs of living to try and combat the economic decline, there’s not much that anyone can do.

On average, data taken between the months of May and June of this year proved how search…

WordPress website owners could soon benefit from a whole new range of hosting tools following a significant acquisition by Elementor.

Following the launch of its Elementor Cloud Website solution earlier in 2022, the website builder provider for WordPress has now acquired static and Jamstack hosting solution, Strattic.

The pair plan to render technology to expand web hosting capabilities and focus on producing solutions to challenges faced by WordPress users. Although the terms of the deal have not been officially disclosed, Elementor did reveal to TechRadar Pro that the acquisition has been in the works for the last two years. 

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Here is a look back at the most-read stories on Phoronix during Q1’22 with our daily content around Linux hardware, open-source news, and lots of benchmarking.

During this past quarter on Phoronix were 42 featured Linux hardware reviews written by your’s truly as well as 729 original news articles pertaining to Linux/open-source happenings. Fresh new and original content each and everyday continues to be the norm. Sadly still being the norm are the challenges of the web advertising industry and continuing to be compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry and that of ad-blockers… Operations continue to be stretched thin here with being reliant on pay-per-impression web advertising to keep Linux hardware testing and the daily flow of news going ahead of Phoronix.com turning…

Domain and web hosting provider Namecheap is terminating all service with the company’s Russian-based users over the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. 

“Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime’s war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia,” US-based Namecheap told Russian users in an email on Monday. 

The company is asking Russian users to transfer their domains to another provider by March 6. Otherwise their sites will resolve to a 403 Forbidden page. In addition, Namecheap has begun blocking Russian clients from using the company’s web hosting and private email services over Russian internet domains, including .ru and .su. 

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