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2023

Domains ·

Host is an ISO certified company

What are ISO certifications ISO certifications are regulated by an organization called ISO (International Organization for…

2022

E-commerce ·

0-day vulnerability in PrestaShop

What happened The PrestaShop development and maintenance team was made aware that some attackers were exploiting a set of…

Joomla ·

Why Host.it chose Joomla 4 as its frontend

History Host is a Hosting service Provider born in Turin in 2001, known by the brands (joomlahost.it and dnshosting.it) before 2016. From 2006 to today the…

2021

2020

Domains ·

Services for Resellers - Payment Methods

Every time to carry out a payment transaction, in addition to taking out your credit card or worse yet making a bank transfer, you must then…

WordPress ·

My IP is on the Black List, what to do?

If you manage a website, an e-commerce, it is likely that during the holidays you increased the number of outgoing commercial emails and it is very likely that…

2019

Domains ·

edu.it domains – 1 year later

During 2018, as the situation became increasingly clear, we collected all the information until September 20th of a year...

E-commerce ·

Host Sponsor of Prestashop Day 2019

The objective of the event is to bring together for one day all professionals in the e-commerce sector to give suggestions in order to create and develop…

Domains ·

Why do the emails I send end up in SPAM?

What is SPAM How many of you know the origin of the term SPAM? It is a rather unique story that comes directly from 1970 from one…

Domains ·

cPanel updates the pricing policy again

At the end of last week, the most famous hosting management panel therefore released further statements in this regard, thanking the…

Email ·

Hosting – Fewer limits, more performance!

If you came to visit us at our stand at the Web Marketing Festival in recent days (Rimini 20-21-22 June 2019) you discovered a preview of the news...

Joomla ·

How to secure a Joomla site

Updates Regularly checking the installed Joomla version to avoid using an old and outdated version is the most important…

Joomla ·

Joomla 3.x – Updates and Security

Did you know that only 15% of Joomla 3.x installations use the latest available version (3.9.4)? This means that the remaining 85% of…

Joomla ·

How to choose a Hosting for Joomla?

In 2006, when the Joomla project was born, there were thousands of users eager to use it on the most famous hosting providers of the time. Too bad there aren't…

WordPress ·

New WordPress Course 5 Available

Within Host Academy we have published the new WordPress 5 Basic Course a few days ago, completely updated.

2018

Hosting ·

The Search for Beauty

Aestheticism is an artistic but above all literary movement of the second half of the 19th century, we find it in an important way thanks to the works of Oscar Wilde.

Infrastructure ·

Web Performance and SEO with Giorgio Taverniti

Marco: The first question, so to speak, today the world is sick of speed, of performance, if a website doesn't open within a second, PANIC. So you…

Domains ·

SPEED: Analysis of Network Requests

Those who regularly follow our vlog will know that the first video we made was for the presentation of SPEED, the tool developed…

WordPress ·

WordPress 5.0 has arrived: what to do?

And now life will continue as always, my advice is to continue using version 4 for a few more months, until the new one...

Domains ·

What is a domain?

When the Internet was born, the World Wide Web as we know it today did not exist, that is, there were no browsers to navigate the web.

E-commerce ·

Which SSL Certificate is right for my site?

First of all, who can generate an SSL Certificate? Only the so-called Certification Authorities can do this, i.e. organizations that own…

WordPress ·

How to secure my website: SSL Certificates

Since January 2017, Google has started marking websites that do not implement an SSL Certificate as "not secure", displaying a warning that, in…

WordPress ·

JoomlaDay and Upcoming News with Joomla! 3.9

Joomla! it is the second most used CMS in the world, after WordPress and on October 27th the eleventh edition of JoomlaDay Italia was held in Turin, the…

WordPress ·

Hosting Offer Update – HOST 1.5

In the past months you have written to us, you have called us, you have asked us in every way to be able to purchase our Hosting services at a price...

Domains ·

What is a .edu.it domain?

In Europe and the United States, the .gov second-level domain is used only by central state administrations. In Italy, however,…

Domains ·

Drop Time: what is it and how does it work?

In the previous article the main validity and expiry states of a .it domain were explained and in this one, however, I will delve into the mechanism of…

Domains ·

.it domains: validity and expiration statuses

The purpose of this article is a recap of the most important statuses (according to our experience) of the .it domain, many of these (not all) also valid for…

Domains ·

.edu.it domains: the countdown is over!

The decision dates back to last February 2018 and has the aim of updating and optimizing the registration process by aligning it with…

Domains ·

We inaugurate the new Host.it headquarters

The date will be June 15, 2018 and the location Turin. The event is twofold: during the day a training session dedicated to Partners and Customers to tell,…

Joomla ·

GDPR – the definitive guide

Jokes aside, in the last two weeks we have only talked about GDPR, we have been inundated with "SPAM" warning us that from 25 May 2018 we will no longer have…

E-commerce ·

PHP-FPM, when speed counts!

The hosting offer that we present to our Customers and Partners is designed to be configured on the real needs of the project to be developed, it grows when it is…

Domains ·

Happy Birthday Spam!

What is spam? Spam means the simultaneous massive sending of the same email generally for commercial purposes. Over the course of these 4 decades the…

Domains ·

Brexit and the ax on .eu domains

Just a year after this declaration, on 28 March 2018, the European Union communicated to the United Kingdom that Brexit will also have consequences on internet domains…

Domains ·

Value over time – promises are kept

When we presented Host.it to the public, we made a promise to all our customers: a single hosting product that updates over time and…

Domains ·

New Offer 2018: all the news from Host!

From the beginning, this concept has always been a real promise for us that we have decided to make to our Partners and Customers who have decided…

Domains ·

Important Security Update for Drupal

The bug, which can have very serious consequences, has been named " Drupalgeddon2 ". Specifically, this flaw allows anyone to…

E-commerce ·

How to make your e-commerce faster?

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but in this article you won't find any of this, but rather, I will give you the tip, the most important trick of all, to be able to…

Joomla ·

Joomla! released 3.8.6

Bug fixes and improvements – Various session management improvements #19548, #19687 – Multilingual: The associated categories…

E-commerce ·

Prestashop 1.7.3 released

PrestaTrust: an innovative feature that authenticates the code of the modules for which it is enabled and securely tracks information on…

WordPress ·

UX update released on host.it

Reading it like this seems like child's play, however, behind a website, in particular that of Host, there was the work of 8 people, including UX Designers,…

Guides ·

Design, accuracy and method

When I started my entrepreneurial adventure at 18, everything was simpler, there were two of us, we said to each other: "let's do this? OK, do it, done".

Domains ·

Magic Experience Design

It's the week in which we were amazed at how (perhaps) one day man will be able to leave planet earth and colonize Mars.

E-commerce ·

He who doesn't work doesn't make love

In June 2017, when we transformed into Host.it, we introduced "365", as it was called, that is, the extension of customer service to all…

2017

Domains ·

Joomlahost and Dnshosting become HOST.IT

Let me introduce myself, I am Marco Mangione, CEO of Colt Engine S.r.l. and, if you are reading this article it is because you certainly are (or have been)…

WordPress ·

SSL certificates: how many are there?

With this article we would like to tell you more about the various certificates we can offer and the differences between each.

2016

Security ·

HTTPS, Google and indexing

served to prepare the ground for the big announcement that arrived on 8 September 2016 directly on the Google Security Blog: with the release of Chrome 56 (1…

Joomla ·

Joomla!, the Open Source that creates jobs

What do the Eiffel Tower, the driver Sebastian Vettel, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Italian Rugby Federation have in common? All their sites…

Email ·

AAA Project Manager Wanted

This figure will interface with all our Development teams, with the Help Desk team, with the Management and with some external collaborators to follow…

Joomla ·

April 2016 – Joomla!® numbers

Where are we? Version 3 has definitively established itself and has surpassed version 2.5, confirming itself as the most used, as demonstrated by the graph…

Email ·

AAA Chart Wanted

Here are the required and desired features

Joomla ·

December 2015 – Joomla!® numbers

Where are we? Version 3 was in the fast lane and soon we will discover together which version is in pole position which closes the year 2015. The…

2015

Domains ·

Domain Registrant VS Web Master – part 2

I follow up on the article "Domain registrant VS Web Master", published in September 2015 (and updated in March 2018), to provide details…

Guides ·

MySQL and MariaDB are ready for use again

Between the two, that of MySQL had a slightly longer gestation (about 2 years of work) than that of MariaDB, which instead took about 1...

Hosting ·

Percona Live Europe: 21-23 September 2015

This year's edition will feature one day of tutorials and two days of keynotes and sessions related to MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud. THE…

E-commerce ·

Important security update for Prestashop

A serious security problem affects some versions of Prestashop, it is therefore necessary to apply the patches made available by the international team to…

Security ·

Cookies and Privacy: much more than a rumor

What is the difference between Cookies and what are they for? Cookies are classified based on: duration, origin, purpose and technical characteristics.

Guides ·

Housekeeping MySql 5.7 before release

Compared to the previous version 5.6, many interesting features have been added and just as many have been changed. But the thing that got me…

Joomla ·

Software Update = Best Service!

The work of updating the software that provides the various web services and databases for an internet service provider like us is very delicate, with this article…

Joomla ·

Do we speak the Joomla!® language?

It is very easy to confuse the concept of the words upgrade and migration as they can apparently have the same meaning or, at least, a…

Joomla ·

April 2015 – Joomla!® numbers

Where are we? Version 2.5.x is now consolidated and conquers 45.28% compared to previous versions while the latest 3.x is starting to make itself felt…

Joomla ·

DroidCon arrives in Turin!

Turin is increasingly establishing itself as a growing city from a technological and cutting-edge point of view. More and more events dedicated to new…

WordPress ·

Joomla! or WordPress?

This type of control is very useful for providing information to our customers and our help desk department on the installations of the various CMS active in…

Joomla ·

CMS Joomla! Goodbye Joomla!® 2.5

Where are we? Version 2.5.x is now consolidated and conquers 50% compared to previous versions and the latest 3.3.6 which is starting to make itself felt…

2014

Cloud & VPS ·

#BLACKFRIDAY – Free hosting

1. FREE HOSTING With this COUPON: BLACKFRIDAYFREESMALL The first 50 lucky people will be able to activate a Small Cloud Hosting completely FREE

Joomla ·

August 2014 – Joomla!® numbers

Where are we? The Joomla!® 2.5.x version had significantly surpassed the now well-known 1.5.x. We remind you that the official support of the latter…

Joomla ·

April 2014 – Joomla!® numbers

Where are we? The Joomla!® 2.5.x version was the most popular compared to previous versions, surpassing version 1.5.x by more than 13%.…

Joomla ·

Joomla! Under attack?

These are hot days for the most used in the world (Joomla!), for several hours in the world the number of BRUTE FORCE towards the administrator page is…

Domains ·

NEW ICANN RULES

Following the ICANN updates, i.e. the request for validation of registrant data for international domains (.com / .org / .net / .info…

2013

Joomla ·

Joomla! 2.5.17 under the Christmas tree

Where are we? The research conducted by JoomlaHost.it and published on our blog dates back to last August 2013 in which Joomla!® 2.5.x had surpassed…

Domains ·

Discover the world of .it domains!

All registered domains are contained in a registry called Registry. This Registry is not responsible for directly registering new domains on behalf…

Joomla ·

New Joomla version! 1.5.26.J

the first linked to the "remember me" plugin or the system for saving the login session and the "remember me" function which allows you to stay logged in...

Joomla ·

August 2013: Joomla! numbers

Where are we? The research conducted by JoomlaHost.it and published on our blog dates back to last May 2013 in which the Joomla! ® 1.5.26 and…

Joomla ·

Joomla! numbers

Let's retrace together the various versions that followed and their development over the years:

Joomla ·

See Naples and participate in JoomlaDay!

As tradition, participation is free and is organized by volunteers from the Italian Joomla.it community in collaboration with JoomlaHost.it,…