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Welcome Allen Pooley!
We’re a bit late on the welcoming train, as Allen has technically been working with us for a couple weeks now, but better late than never! Allen will be taking care of troubleshooting and first-line support requests and has already responded to a number of our fantastic clients’ emails in record time. Keep an eye out…
Read MoreJoin Us For Coffee Every Tuesday
Update: Thank you everyone that made these events a great hit! We’re no longer hanging out at Hydrostone Cafe on a regular schedule, but if you have a web-anything question, Send us a message any time! We’re happy to help. Join us every Tuesday afternoon to get free advice on anything related to your website or…
Read MoreHow can web hosts offer unlimited hosting?
Although we started with our very first hosting plan having unlimited resources, just like our current Titanium shared hosting plan, for many years we were opponents of unlimited hosting. Around 2010 we started advertising our own unlimited bandwidth hosting plan. We did this to ensure our hosting plans would fall into line with our very…
Read MoreSupporting Local Businesses & @ilovelocalhfx #opencity Halifax
We pride ourselves on being from Halifax and helping to support many of the local businesses in their day to day operations. Today marks the start of @ILOVELOCALHFX‘s weekend-long #opencity event in Halifax, Nova Scotia – a wonderful event. This event is put on by a great group of Community-minded independent businesses that are committed…
Read MoreThe history of Websavers
In our menu, we ask “Why websavers?” with the question: why should you choose websavers as your hosting company? Instead, I’d like to examine this question from a different perspective, one which we’ve been asked about many times in the past. Why the name websavers? It’s 2004… And Adam Bate and I are finishing our…
Read More6 reasons to use Plesk Control Panel for web hosting
The Plesk control panel has proven itself to be an extremely powerful, yet simple to use web hosting control panel over the past several years. It has gained a lot of popularity in both shared and virtual environments. Its intuitive design and excellent functionality has made it the go-to choice for many web hosts and…
Read MoreMarketing Assets: sticking to the fundamentals online
I recently read some controversy about Twitter potentially censoring their trending topics a while ago. I have also heard of someone losing his facebook account (with over 3000 friends) because of excessive adding of friends. All this made me think of how little control we really do have over our social media initiatives in the…
Read MoreTimThumb exploit and knowing what to do to protect your website
Yesterday, Mark Maunder at markmaunder.com happened to run across and identify a very dangerous and clever hack on his site. The hacker had gained access through the very popular TimThumb image library, and thus the first TimThumb Exploit was found. If you are interested in the specifics of the hack, more detailed information can be…
Read MoreFree Shoutcast Hosting
Every day people scour the Internet for free shoutcast hosting. Although the SHOUTcast server software is free and can be setup and streamed by anyone with a bit of technical inclination, the resources that it uses such as bandwidth and server resources, can get quite expensive. Because of this there are just a handful of high performance…
Read MoreAuto DJ Shoutcast
Over the last few years shoutcast hosting has evolved a lot. One of the major benefits radio station owners now have is the AutoDJ feature. It has become an increasingly popular service along side traditional streaming. It has typically added a bit of cost to shoutcast hosting packages, but we include 5 GB of Auto…
Read MoreEmail on your iPhone, iPad – be rid of your ISP’s terrible service
iPhone Email Woes (or iPad) Update June 5, 2014: While Eastlink has since resolved these issues by supported authenticated SMTP and SSL, BellAliant has only added the former. You still cannot connect to a BellAliant email server with a fully secured connection, meaning 3rd parties can still intercept your passwords. But at least they’ve fixed…
Read MoreCanadian Government to buy only Energy Star qualified servers
The Canadian Government announced this week that it is planning on only buying Energy Star qualified servers. Canada, along with many other Governments including the EU, Switzerland, Australia and Japan have adopted the US EPA’s energy efficiency certifications for appliances. The datacentre and hosting industries have seen a huge green push over the last several…
Read MoreWelcome, Chris MacLellan
We would like to welcome Chris MacLellan to the Web Savers team. Chris is joining us as our new Account Manager and will be introducing himself to many of you over the next few months. Thank you in helping us welcome Chris as part of the team.
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