by jnelson | May 8, 2015 | Encryption, News, Resources, Security
Email and texting are great modern conveniences, but they were never intended to be secret. Nowadays, with hackers dumping stolen messages on the Web and the government recording everything, these methods are decidedly risky for sending any information that must...
by jnelson | May 6, 2015 | Resources, Warnings
Here at SWCP, we love WordPress, the planet’s most popular and versatile open-source blogging and Content Management System. This very blog is a WordPress site, our Basic Web-Hosting package is tailored to support WordPress websites, and we even hold frequent...
by jnelson | Mar 17, 2015 | News, Online Tools, Resources
Sooner or later, everyone needs help for their computer, or has been called upon by someone – parent, child, sibling, co-worker, or friend – to lend technical assistance for some problem too difficult for the other party to solve. Many times, advice must be given from...
by jnelson | Jul 8, 2014 | News, Resources
With the revelations of Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers, the cat’s out of the bag: we’re all being watched 24/7. But along with the government, we’re being followed around the web by a shadowy legion of other parties. Chief among them, and...
by jnelson | Feb 11, 2014 | News, Resources, Tips and Tricks
If you own or run a website, there are a few new wrinkles you should know about. In the first place, the powers that be at ICANN who run the World Wide Web’s all-important Domain Name System have instituted a new hoop for domain owners to jump through. Since...
by Mark Costlow | Sep 13, 2013 | Events, wordpress
I’m excited to be giving a talk at WordCamp Albuquerque 2013! It’s on Saturday Sep 14 at 1pm, called “DNS and WordPress Site Migration”. It will cover some of the ins-and-outs of DNS that make it tricky to move a web site or change a...