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Wednesday 22 May 2013

WordPress: Measures for Secure Blogging


WordPress is a huge space, where from an individual to a big organization can build their blog or website; manage their content (CMS) for free and in very less time. Interestingly, more than 15% of the websites are developed on WordPress (according to Matt Mullenweg); an open platform where one can build their own blog or website. Another source states approx a million sites are built in a month that adds in ongoing 65 million of accounts on WordPress. It is certainly one of the favorite user platforms. The business organizations, students, educational institutions, medical firms, sole proprietor of a business, etc. wish to have a website on WordPress to multiply their profit. However, more popular the site is there are more chances of getting it hacked. Quite recently, WordPress based sites had a bad experience of a hacking attack. 

As it said that precaution is better than cure, the business organizations who have a website on WordPress, can take few measures to protect their sites from an unwanted guest or just being hacked. There are basic two ways in which the WordPress based site can be hacked or attacked: 

a.       When the user is having older versions of the platform or plugins.
b.      When the attacker gains access by using brute-force password cracking. 

Though, with such king of vulnerabilities, WordPress based sites are not arranged to manage with these contingencies. But following the following steps may protect your important information being leaked.

1.      There are many Web hosting services available. It is advised to select the hosting service, which is familiar with WordPress, who can manage and permit the installation and plugins wisely.
2.      Try to regularly apply the security updates provided by the WordPress. The blog or website owner needs to install these updates unavoidably.
3.      Choose plugins with high download rating and also that its author is in active support, and on the first place, try to use minimum number of plugins to avoid any discrepancy in updating them.
4.      Create a different user Id with admin rights, other than the default admin user Id. Point your pages or posts to new one and delete the older one.
5.      Create a powerful password for the user Id. 

Nevertheless, all the above mentioned points can be handled by a WordPress specialist or a developer. Things can be made easier and time saving by outsourcing WordPress specialist, who will develop effective WordPress sites or blogs with accessible content management system (CMS). Besides this, the outsourcing company need not have to worry about the management of their site or pages. It is a very idea to outsource the work and get a well developed, managed and maintained site for your business.

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Need of the Hour - Outsourcing ASP.NET specialist from India


The new age brackets with the highly developed knowledge are moving in the direction of enhanced technology and innovations happening in the ASP.NET applications. Now-a-days, every business or organization wants to have a creative, attractive and impressive profile to have an upper hand amongst their competitors. This very important requirement can be achieved by creating websites through using ASP.NET web application. This platform helps in building dynamic web pages, web presentation, websites, etc. As many organizations do not have a technical person or a team, who have the knowledge of software, they prefer to outsource their work to other firms. It has been observed that many organizations from various countries outsource their work to India. Specially, the ASP.NET developers are in high demand.

Many IT companies in India have experienced and competent team of developers who are expert in Microsoft technologies, like - .NET, C#, ASP.NET, etc. These developers (also known as specialists) develop website in various technologies. The organizations outsource the ASP.NET specialists to get an excellent website for their company, product or service, which will attract their existing and future customers.

Essentially, the ASP.NET specialist should be well aware of the new developments in the technology and ready to adopt them. They should also have the understanding of the current scenario of commercial world. Those with experience, creativity and technical knowledge are in huge demand and earn good package and positions in the IT industry.

Among many other factors of outsourcing ASP.NET specialists from India is the monetary factor. One more factor is that it saves time and will provide round the clock assistance. The ASP.NET specialist in capable of accomplishing various tasks, like - Custom .NET application Development, CRM System, .NET based Ecommerce, etc. These services and many others are provided to the outsourcing company at a very low price coupled with optimum quality of work in India. Hence, ASP.NET specialists of India are the first choice of outsourcing companies.

Another aspect that can be considered is opting for a team of ASP.NET specialists rather than a single developer. As taking this option, the outsourced company may offer few additional benefits, like the team manager. This actually takes away all the tension, as the manager will take care of the completion of project within the time limit and also handle the requirements of the developers as well as the client. Thus, outsourcing ASP.NET projects from India are much favorable and affordable in terms of money, work quality, time and assistance.