Hi there!
Happy Friday to you! :) Daughter no.2 is home for the weekend, so it's a time to rejoice. Woohoo! :)
I've just been over to my hosting account and noticed that my sites are no longer being backed up. Eek!
On further investigation, I discovered that I was exceeding the number of "inodes" allowed... The inodes are the files and folders you have stored on your server...
Even though I technically have an unlimited Hostgator account I'm only allowed 100,000 inodes. Worth bearing in mind if you didn't realise that...
Anyway, I traced the problem to my email, which had really built up (I check it in gmail). Once I'd deleted everything the inode usage fell from about 110k to 89k...
Which just goes to show that really it pays to keep a close eye on your hosting just in case...
Anyway, I promised that I would be revealing the subject of my next WSO today and I am true to my word :)
It's a topic that every WordPress owner should know about and yet very few of us do...
WordPress Security...
Most WordPress sites have a ton of security holes and are very easy to hack, especially if you installed it with a script like Fantastico.
I didn't realise this until relatively recently, when a friend told me about how he'd had 50+ affiliate sites hacked and viruses had been installed. Yikes!
It cost him a thousands of dollars to get them cleaned up and he lost out on commissions and customers in the meantime.
If he'd taken the security steps that my friend and programmer, Bobby, is going to teach in WP Security Decoded, his sites would have been safe :)
Just look at this screenshot of the attempted logins on my one of my WordPress sites... (enable images to see them)
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It's a good reason never to use "Admin" for starters! If you are, then I suggest you go change it now! :)
And here are the IP addresses that were locked out by my security settings:
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| | Sorry if I've got you spooked, but prevention is way better than cure...
So we created something very special for you, that will guide you through the steps you need to take
to protect your WordPress sites using a ninja combination of FREE
plugins and settings :)
It took Bobby months of testing and
tweaking to figure out the best setup and we're revealing it all for you
on Thursday April 18th at 11am EST! :)
That's all for now. I hope you have an awesome weekend and I'll speak to you again next week.
To your success!
Sally
PS.
If you didn't catch the demo of this awesome plugin that helps you sell
more affiliate stuff, watch it below! It blew my socks off! ;)
==> http://sallylazarus.com/wpnotifywizard/
PPS. I just found my socks... they were behind the sofa... ;)
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About the Author: Sally Lazarus is an Internet Marketer, wife, mother and massive geek…
She started out as a programmer many moons ago, before the Internet as we know it today was born… No, not when dinosaurs roamed the Earth! She's not that old! How rude! :P
She's been working online since late 2011. She doesn't claim to know it all. She's still learning too, but she wants to share her knowledge with you and help you succeed online.
She's an ethical marketer and loves helping people to reach their goals. When she sends out a promotion it will always be well thought out, even if it means sending it a day or two after launch.
She will investigate it properly beforehand, get hold of a review copy or buy it herself. She wouldn't recommend anything that she didn't believe in or wouldn't use herself.
Her aim is to save you time by doing the research for you, to make it easier for you to figure out if a particular product is likely to be able to help you reach your goals.
Sally Lazarus:
>> http://sallylazarus.com
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