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You may or may not have heard (or may not care!) that the PHP programming language recently had an upgrade… again. Why should you care?? Well, the PHP language is used throughout the web, and the bulk of websites out there rely on the functions of that language to help your website do it’s job.  When someone upgrades the language, it can do some things more efficiently or safely, but if your website and related plugins  aren’t updated to match, you can have old code cause your site to fail. You may not even notice! Our recommendation is always to test your contact form weekly to be sure it’s working as expected, and to chat with your website hosting company to see if making the upgrade (new version 8.0) makes sense in your case. SOME sites will not like the change! If you host your website with Lions Mane, and […]

We’re 7 months into feeling the effects of COVID on the business world, and along with the ultimate fatigue of one Zoom meeting after another, we’ve seen two other phenomena become quite prominent: 1) People are starting businesses after their employer terminated their jobs due to COVID cutbacks. 2) People who own businesses are having to pivot, and change how they do business! The COVID Pivot is surely the dance craze of the decade, and we’re here to help keep your feet moving in the right direction. Whether it means helping you make small changes to your website to better reflect how you sell your goods or services, or help you create a website if you’re starting out on your own! Maybe you’ve come up with a NEW product or service that you want to sell online, but you have NO idea how to get there. Reach out to us, […]

Some more savvy website owners may have heard that WordPress will be pushing an update to their platform shortly (v5.5) that will allow the website owner to flip a switch, and have the website update it’s own platform and plugin versions – automatically. This would guarantee that the website is constantly up to date with the latest and most secure versions of it’s code. Sounds great, right?? Here’s the problem. There are many plugins that are not well written, and some of them call on programming functions that may be out of date, or less secure. This can instantly break many WordPress websites, and then you have to hire a developer to dig into the code and fix it.  THANKFULLY, we’re here to help. It may also be worthwhile leaving the settings as they are. Perhaps its better NOT having things auto-update, and instead using our Maintenance Services to be […]

Scammers know that most of us are buying our household items online nowadays. Many of these transactions happen on Amazon or similar, and use Paypal to pay for them. Scammers also  know that the public can tend to freak out when we get emails claiming our information has been compromised, or that we need to update our billing information to keep it safe! First, it’s important to know that NONE of these actual businesses would send out an email saying any of that. This is a common scam tactic (fear) and any email you get (even if it says it’s from Amazon) that asks for you to login to confirm ANYTHING, should be deleted and ignored! Not sure if your email services are giving you the control that you want? Reach out to us and let’s see if our Hosting Services can give you better control!