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Making a website can be fun and rewarding, but there is also a lot of stress to it that you need to worry about. While most websites are not going to be the target of malicious actors, even one person who gets the mind to attack your website may do so if you don’t make it secure enough. To help you design the most secure website possible, we have prepared some handy tips and things to keep in mind during the process.

Choose the best host

This should be the first thing you consider, as it serves as the “base” of your website. Not all website hosting services are created equally, and thus, you need to be careful with whose services you pick. Look into the kinds of features and protections on offer from these companies, as these are what make or break a good…

This episode of The Chrome Cast was a tad bit different than most, but it was a great conversation. We begin the show reviewing our recent web hosting woes and the direction we’ve finally taken to escape them. While many of our listeners may not be looking for quality web hosting at the moment, it doesn’t mean you all won’t be on the receiving end of a much faster, much more optimized Chrome Unboxed website moving forward. We’re excited about where we’ve landed and only expect the user experience to get better and better with our new hosting partner: Kinsta.

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For the second part of the show, we discuss the emergence of a possible new Nest Wi-Fi with a much needed upgrade on board: Wi-Fi 6. With this tech, routers are much better at overall bandwidth throughput and…

What is website monitoring software?

Website monitoring software repeatedly tests whether your website is available. If it is, the system simply records that everything is okay. If your site doesn’t respond as expected, the system can alert you of the outage.

For instance, when a major website or service such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Salesforce or Slack experiences an outage, people flock to tools like Twitter or Downdetector to confirm and comment. The huge number of people who rely on these sites ensures that significant problems may be noticed not only by site/service users and the full-time teams paid to monitor site/service performance, but also mainstream media sources.

But many website and web service outages go undetected, as they…

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in — and…

Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in — and it’s generating offers of help and housing worldwide.

Moved by the plight of Ukrainian refugees desperate to escape Russian bombardment across the former Soviet republic, Marco Burstein, 18, of Los Angeles, and Avi Schiffman, 19, of Seattle, used their coding skills to create UkraineTakeShelter.com over three frenzied days in early March.

Since then, more than 18,000 prospective hosts have signed up on the site to offer assistance to refugees seeking matches with hosts in their preferred or convenient locations. On a recent day, Burstein and Schiffman logged 800,000 users.

“We’ve heard all sorts of…