As of June 1st, having regular FTP enabled on your website invalidates PCI. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) is what governs the rules and regulations for securing credit card data.

If you’re an ecommerce merchant and accept credit cards, you are required to be PCI compliant. Failure to be PCI compliant can subject your company to fees and fines.

Last Tuesday was an exciting time for one of our clients. It was exciting for us as well.

eShave, one of our ecommerce hosting clients, appeared on the Today Show segment “Jill’s Steals and Deals”. This news segment features a few select products that have extreme discounts. It is very popular throughout the country, and can result in 250,000 or more visitors to a featured website in a few short hours.

Your domain name and SSL certificate are important pieces of digital real estate. Don’t let them expire, or you could not only lose sales, but lose your internet name forever. Take one simple step to make sure these deadlines are never missed.

Google loves to make the web a faster place. They are obsessed with fast websites. So obsessed that they’ve made page speed one of the ranking factors for their search index (but remember there are over 200 ranking factors, so it’s not the end-all and be-all of search ranking).

And now Google has released an add-on for web servers (Apache) that aims to make websites even faster.

In our last blog post, we discussed how your web site’s speed is very important when it comes to making more sales. We also demonstrated how our average hosting account is TWO to THREE times FASTER than other hosts offering ecommerce services.

How do we prove it? With a challenge of course!