Servage Magazine

The time we spend online What is is that we spend so much time with in the online world (besides work)? Reading an interesting article about this the other day (offline, can you believe it?), I learned that West Europeans spend about 1 hour every day online, reading blogs and news (not work, or other productive stuff, just the daily private catching up with personal interests). On top of that, they spend 15 min every day, checking if new blog entries or news have been posted... I couldn't help but wonder, if we are all really getting to that point where we - on top of consuming a lot of information via the Internet - also spend another ...

The Internet World Stats (IWS) organisation reported that we have reached a point, where over 1 in 2 people in the world have some kind of access to the internet. - reaching 51.7% Internet user penetration in the world is a historical occasion! The IWS database shows there are now 3,885,567,618 Internet users in the world (source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm). Why is this information useful? All these users are potential customers for businesses looking to expand online! Be part of that global marked and start your online business. Servage offers you all the services you require for that purpose. If you decide to create and host your website with Servage.net, you can get a ...

It's easy for service providers to ask their users to use secure passwords. After all it is the user who is supposed to remember it. Obviously it is better for everyone if secure passwords are being used everywhere, but for many people it represents an annoyance to use a password like "237IMBd!" instead of "pizza". However, there are plenty of ways making it easier to remember secure passwords - and some of them even add a little bit of fun to the process ;-) I would like to explain my personal way of generating and using secure passwords as an inspiration to figure out a way that works for you, and moreover, ...

You are using a free e-mail service for your business  right now? If yes, please read the following. One  benefit of using a custom domain name for your website is the fact that you can easily get a professional e-mail address using your domain name. In this article, we will show you why using your own domain name for your email address is better than using a free email service provider. Your user expect your business to have a domain name and a website. An email address like marketing@testdomain.net tells people you’re serious about your business. Free email services, are easy to use for private purposes, but when you use a ...

Specter and Meltdown!  These are the names of the two potentially serious security holes in processors that were revealed during the past week. We will start by stating that, with certainty, we can't say exactly how serious the bugs are (or rather how easy they are to exploit). In any case, this is what we know so far: The security holes have been traced back to 2011. Initially, only Intel's processors were pointed out (something that, of course, was so bad considering the manufacturer's market dominance) but later at his has been revised and the problem, at least with Spectre, seems to apply to all major processor manufacturers. Simply described, it's all ...

Unfortunately it is a fact that security threats are a reality on the Internet! To address these and to make your hosting package even more secure we have  GeoIP Security added to each Servage account. This feature enables you to prohibit possible intruders to gain access to your account based on their geographic location or IP address. You can enable GeoIP Security in the control panel, where you also have the ability to specify specific countries and IPs to allow access. How does this work? Whenever someone tries to login the user is verified against our database to identify if that particular user is allowed to login from that particular geographic location ...