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MIGRATING YOUR SITE TO HTTPS WITH INSTALLATRON.

Migrating your site to SSL : HTTPS with installatron. Useful website tools to use for your site.

By engineertim | March 12, 2018

Useful website tools to use for your website.

https://www.ssllabs.com/
This is a useful site to check your site for proper ssl settings. You will get a grade once the report is done. An “A” is the best, while a “B” would be acceptable, you should really try and get the “A” grade. I would also recommend when you do your test that you click on the check box that says “Do not show the results on the board”, unless you have a perfect score you want to show off.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/
This site is useful to check if the email you use for logins has been seen on hacked lists. It is also very useful to check the security of passwords you use for logins.

https://www.whatismyip.com/ – list your current IP address

http://www.whatsmyip.org/ – Not to be confused with the .com version of the site. Many useful tools from gzip testing, to password generation. Not as useful as it once was since it does not seem to handle https based websites. But the DNS tools and password generator is quite useful.

https://checkgzipcompression.com – another tool for checking to ensure your site is using gzip compression. This one works with https based sites.

Speed test – google and http://www.speedtest.net/

https://slack.com – Team focused chat with many useful options.

Moving a site to ssl with installatron one click installer. This assumes you are using cPanel with autossl enabled.

1. Test your site to ensure you have a ssl certificate installed. This can be done by going to https://yourdomain. If you your site loads with no errors you can proceed. Some common issues you may run into, site is not fully secure and ssl mismatch. You may need to resolve these errors before you proceed.

2. Inside of your cPanel account, create a new subdomain using the subdomain tool. You will need to wait for the server to generate and install the free SSL certificate for this subdomain. You can test this just like step 1 above.

3. From inside of installatron, clone the live site to the new subdomain, but make sure to select the https version of the subdomain. This should only take a few minutes depending on the site size. This will create a complete copy of your site and move it to the subdomain you created. You can now test the site and fix any issues you may have by going to the subdomain https site. For example, https://subdomain.yourdomain

4. Once things look good on the subdomain, you can go into installaron and clone the site back to the live site but use https version in the drop down.

5. Once the live site is cloned back to https, test again. Things should have been resolved when you used the subdomain, but there may be some lingering links or code that may need to be changed.

At this point your site should be using a valid SSL certificate. If you are uncomfortable doing these steps you may want to contact your developer or your hosting company to see if they can help you out. I would also recommend that you have a full backup of your site before proceeding with anything that is going to change your site. This would include installing plugins, updating core site files, etc… A backup is a simple way to ensure you have a way to get back to a known working state.

Please understand that you use these instructions at your own risk. I do not acceptable responsibility for anything you do to your website.

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Web hosting one click installers, David Anderson of Canvas Host talks domains

By engineertim | October 23, 2017

Web Hosting Podcast episode 3

News / security

WordPress plugin with 200,000 installs has a backdoor – Display Widgets version 2.6.1 and 2.6.3
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/backdoor-found-in-wordpress-plugin-with-more-than-200-000-installations/

ransom-ware outbreak

Company agrees to pay $1 million in bitcoin to unlock 157 web servers.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/south-korean-web-hosting-provider-pays-1-million-in-ransomware-demand/

CloudFlare now includes apps June 27th – https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-apps-2/
Some of the great apps on cloudflare I have found.
– social icons – add social icons automatically to your site
– tweet this – highlight and tweet text
– Facebook comments – Facebook Comments app lets people comment on content on your site using their Facebook account.
– Facebook Like – Add a Facebook Like button to your site to build your social media presence.
– Pinterest – Let your visitors share your content and increase your social presence with Pinterest buttons!
– google maps – quickly add a map to your page.
– spotify, soundcloud, trebble – add music playlists to your site.
– ecommerce apps for paypal
– fun stuff – particles and browser blast.
– check out all the apps here.

One click installers

What are one click installers?
One click installers allow you to “install” a range of popular software from a library of applications for use. These can include wordpress, joomla, drupal and many others depending on your host and possibly the hosting plan you select at signup.

The 3 major one click installers used for hosting.
fantastico -https://netenberg.com/
softaculous – https://www.softaculous.com/
installatron – http://installatron.com/

All have panel integration (cpanel, plesk, etc..)

All allow you to install the most current version of popular software including.
wordpress
drupal
joomla
magento

Why I like installatron over the others.

– Ease of use, hands down installatron is easiest to use.
– clone a site and move a site to another location – very easy to do.
– remote backup including dropbox integration.
– automatic install of security plugins (wordpress specific in this case) during the one click install.
– automatic update with backup and rollback ; this is huge. Installatron will automatically backup, then attempt to update each piece that needs a update. If a update fails it will roll back to the backup file. It sends emails out regarding the status of the updates and if they were successful or not.
– schedule of backups and retention. This only backs up the installed application and not your entire cPanel or control panel account. This allows your site to be portable and easy to restore in the event something happens to your site.
– Easily login to your wordpress site from inside of cPanel.
– Easily reset your wordpress login credentials, this includes the password.
– Install two factor authentication on creation of wordpress site, or later on. This can be enabled by default.
– Limit failed login attempts, by default.
– You can import current installs into installatron so that it can manage it for you. This is very handy to help manage automated updates and backups.

Follow this blog post to see how to import your current install of wordpress into installatron. Keeping your WordPress Website Updated | Enrolling in an Automatic Updater

Domain registration with David Anderson of Canvas Host

Topics covered with David from Canvas Host.
– What is a domain registrar.
– Buying a new domain.
– Price change after one year – this is very common to see a $1.99 or lower, intro price and then have a much higher price renewal after the first year. Could be much much higher.
– Domain transfer to new registrar – unlock domain, generate epp code, send epp code to new registrar. Watch the transfer fee, will renew for 1 year.
– Grace periods – 0 – 45 days after it expires. Just the cost to renew.
– Redemption – after 45 days. This costs a lot more money + renewal. Fee varies on registrar.
– Pending deletion after 80 days, which then anyone can register after released. This is cheaper than paying redemption fees, but could cost you your domain.
– Loosing a domain by lapsing and entering delete state.
– Contact information must be current on domain registration so that you can be reached. DO NOT USE bogus/false info!!
– Private registration – $7.50 per year, can vary by registrar, some TLDs are free for private registration. For exmaple, *.uk. Some domains can’t have private registration, .us for example.
– Warning about domain registry of america letter and the scam. Domain slamming. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_scams

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