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Enabling HTTPS in CS-Cart: Reasons Why & Quick How-To Guide

Do you want to protect fans of your website from the theft of personal data and go to the SERP top? Ensure the integrity of information using HTTPS, which is now an industry standard for every popular online resource. In the first place, the website should be transferred if it has visitors leaving super-important data (for example, payment) that fraudsters can intercept. A secure protocol is a must-have for self-respecting online services, banks, online stores.

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Site Reliability Engineering: What Is SRE and Should eCommerce Rely On It?

Running an eCommerce business you may face a problem when you get a message from your clients that the site is down. You refer to your hosting providers. They look at their charts and see that there was some surge in customer activity, but the server overcame the peak and now performs well. It might be a DDoS attack or a coincidence. After some time, the server is getting slower, page speed – lower until the full timeout. You can try to explain it by a peak amount of requests that “broke” the server. But the true cause is hidden. In this article, we will talk about SRE, an approach that allows producing services drawing on monitoring systems that are less prone to an effect of a sudden server crash.

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Development Automation that Makes Your Business Project Safe & Reliable

Automation of manual toil is critical in web development since nobody’s perfect and the human factor may lead to overlooking some major elements that define the success and/or the vivacity of the overall project. To avoid shutting down the whole project due to a human error, you need to envisage automation right before designing the concept. How to do that and where automation is appropriate is answered in this article.

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Deprecating TLS 1.1

TLS or Transport Layer Security has a long history. It appeared in 1990s ass SSL protocol and has seen lots of updates since then. In 2020, the latest version of TLS – 1.3 – was released. In this article, we tell you about reasons to deprecate the elder versions and why it is better to check with your hosting provider if you are on the safe side with the updated security certificate.

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Achieving Business Goals With Cloud Hosting

Whether you are just starting your business and building an online store or you are looking to increase business and scale the number of site visitors and customers, the questions and doubts about hosting keep coming in the first place. There are many hosting providers, plans, and options for your website or application, including a shared server, a virtual private server (VPS), a dedicated server and, of course, a cloud solution.

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Expenses to Consider While Self-Hosting

When you host your eCommerce website on your own, you bear an extra expense for keeping an IT specialist in your staff, but not only. A more critical expenditure to take into account is that self-hosting is a technical debt for you – the cost you pay extra for the additional work to rectify a workaround made by an all-in-one specialist for a show. IT specialists can include system administrators, those guys who set up the software, databases, server environment, and the developers who deal with the code. One cannot be an expert in everything. However, there are some cases when having and administrating your own server is efficient. Here is a dilemma for a startup project willing to save extra at the inception phase: to host by own efforts or lean back on a hosting provider?

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Performance Testing: You Need to Think Critically

Critical thinking is an indispensable pillar of doing business in today’s world. We know that you apply it well in business, but as long as we are technical experts, let me show you that the same should be done for technical things as well. And today I want to show you once again that not everything on the Internet needs to be trusted!

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Factors That Affect Your Website Performance

Starting this month, our head of Cloud Hosting and SRE/DevOps departments, Roman Ananev, is giving a series of lectures on how to maximize the website performance for your eCommerce business.
Read the introductory article on the way the Internet works and the factors that affect your website performance.

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