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Managing a website is easier than ever nowadays, but that doesnt mean things cant go wrong. Your website could get hacked, it could break after an update, or you could delete critical files by mistake and thats just for starters. A single backup could save your skin in each of the situations we mentioned, and theyre not hard to create.

Picking the right domain name for a web project is by no means a simple task. Although domain names are, in most cases, cheap and easy to acquire, finding the perfect name can be a real hassle especially when you take into consideration that over 311 million of them are already taken. While finding the perfect combination of characters is indeed difficult, its not impossible.

About 30,000 websites are hacked each and every day. Reasons sites get hacked could be covered in a completely separate blog post of its own and has been. Some of the top reasons a site becomes vulnerable are if youre using insecureeasy to guess passwords as well as using outdated software. Regardless of the reason a site gets hacked, it can be an extremely frustrating experience.

With the upcoming release of Drupal 8 on November 19th, Drupal users have something extra to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. After all, it's been almost 5 years since the release of Drupal 7.0. While Drupal 7 included many improvements and new futures compared to its previous versions, the same can be said about Drupal 8. What are some of these improvements?

Google has begun to roll out algorithm updates intended to remove hacked site spam from their search results. The goal of these updates is to help keep their searchers and users safe by removing these potentially harmful sites from their search results.

It's been just over a year since we launched Hosting.com Optimized WordPress. The goal of Hosting.com Optimized WordPress was to take the guesswork out of how to get the fastest page loads and most secure settings. It is safe to say Hosting.com Optimized WordPress has been a success with optimized WordPress sites loading up to 6X faster than non-optimized sites.