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Six facts about backup in 2017

• 46% of internet users do not backup their data at all
• Business data is backed up 20% more often compared to personal data
• 56% of the personal users don’t have more than one copy of their backup
• 75% of business data users have 2 copies or more
• Security stays the biggest concern for cloud backup among 70% of personal and 59% of business data users
• Every 3rd user has lost data at least once.
• Cloud backup is the second popular backup destination
• External drives are the most  popular backup destination
• Cloud backup grew 13% on average from 2016 to 2017.

The WP Domain Checker WordPress Plugin allows you to check for  Internationalized Domain Name (IDN).

For this feature to work you will need to install the Internationalisation module for PHP7.0

sudo apt-get install php7.0-intl

A site that is under regular update and refining is required to flush the cache regularly. The first person visiting your site after flushing will get the un-cashed and slow website generated from MySQL and PHP instead from the Amazon ElastiCache server.

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Think of safety as when the criminal penetrates one layer of security. Then there is just another protective layer behind it. Bad guys and criminals are often entrepreneurs with a mission. Mostly getting revenue or accessing valuable information. Criminals mostly go for the lowest hanging apples. You and your business should not be a low hanging apple. This is a list of layers you should implement:

• 2-Step Verification
• Hardcore, complex passwords everywhere
• Use different, hardcore, complex usernames everywhere when possible
• SSL encryption
• SSH encryption
• WordPress sites updated to latest version
• All WordPress themes updated
• All WordPress plugins updated
• 2-Step Verification on WordPress or use .htaccess based IP control
• Ubuntu filesystem system set with correct permission
• Ubuntu updated
• Configure the firewall in EC2 only to allow incoming traffic on port 443 from the IP-range that belongs to CloudFlare.
• The EC2 firewall should only allow incoming traffic on port 22 from your computers IP
• The EC2 firewall should only allow outgoing traffic to the Internet on port 22, 80 and 443. Port 80 is only for the Ubuntu updater “sudo apt-get.”
• Use IPVanish or similar VPN protection on your phone, tablet, PC and Mac.

Username and password are not considered to be a safe way to keep the unwanted people away.

Period.

You need stronger security for all your accounts. Don’t leave any account behind.

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We rely on CloudFlare.com, ElastiCache, and W3 Total Cache to handle WordPress speed. Other factors could have a significant impact on the performance and availability as discussed in this post.

When setting up your WP Je Os server Amazon Web Services presents you with more than a few choices.

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