Kickassd.com … New Update from the new owners!
Hello Ben Wade here. It’s been about a month now that I’ve been the owner of Kickassd.com. I’m absolutely loving it, and you guys are great customers! Here’s an update of what’s been going on. Bobby and I have been diligently at work learning the new system here at Kickassd.com and getting to know you […]
Continue Reading...Updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: Kickassd is still fully GDPR-compliant!
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is the new important regulation for data privacy. Originally approved back in April 2016 by the EU Parliament, the GDPR is coming into effect on the 25th May 2018. It replaces EU legislation that was established over 20 years ago in 1995 which was severally outdated in the […]
Continue Reading...What To Do If Your WordPress Website Gets Hacked
With WordPress being so popular and the vast amount of themes and plugins, it is a favorite target for hackers. In 99% of cases, your WordPress website is not actually targeted, most of the hacks are automated and carried out by bots. Why do hackers hack WordPress websites? Usually, they are using your […]
Continue Reading...Shared Cloud Is The Future
At Kickassd we are always looking for ways to improve our service, and offer you the best possible service. What is the #1 cause of downtime in the shared hosting industry? Typically shared hosting providers use strictly dedicated servers. When hardware fails on a dedicated server it often means downtime and it […]
Continue Reading...Kickassd Elastic Sites | The Future Is Here
The 2 main reasons people change from shared hosting to a VPS are: More resources Performance issues We are happy to introduce “Elastic Sites” which negates the need to move from shared hosting to a VPS. On our servers we run CloudLinux which allows us to isolate users and resources same as a […]
Continue Reading...Easy WordPress Staging With VersionPress
We recently changed the way you access GIT on all of our servers and have also now added wp-cli to all of our servers which makes it easy to setup WordPress Staging and recovery for your WordPress site. To set this up we will use VersionPress which is really an amazing plugin that is […]
Continue Reading...Kickassd Interview With WHSR
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Web Hosting Secret Revealed and I must say it was a pleasure! The Kickassd interview was conducted by Lori Soard who is a writer, teacher of writing, and holds degrees in Philosophy, Journalism, and Creative Writing. She also has won awards for her books and […]
Continue Reading...Kickassd PCI Compliance Quarterly Scans
We take your data security very seriously, and so one of our steps to ensuring your security on our systems we do quarterly PCI compliance scans on all of our servers and client portal. We couple these with intensive internal security audits to make sure we are doing everything possible to keep you and […]
Continue Reading...Kickassd Slack Chat Rocks | Join Us!
Slack is awesome, and so we decided to setup a channel where not only staff, but our customers as well can hangout and chat in real time. We want to get to know you as we hope you would like to get to know us. This is an awesome way to stay up to […]
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