Alpha Cloud Hosting
Our goal is to provide simple hosting packages that help launch growth for business. We felt the variety of our offerings, differences in feature sets, and pricing didn’t meet our goal. While complexity might increase your choices, it also increases
NodeJS and Ruby on Rails
Alpha Hosting is excited to announce that our environment now is NodeJS and Ruby on Rails capable! You can now install a Ruby on Rails or NodeJS passenger app on your shared hosting or cloud environment! You can also install
Introducing X-Cart
Setting up an e-commerce store can be a daunting process. From designing the site to actually processing orders, there are a lot of steps and options in the set-up process. Luckily, there is a scalable software option available which will
Types of SSL/TLS Authentication Levels
A brief overview of the different authentication levels of SSL Certificates For SSL/TLS certificates, there are three different levels of authentication. These different levels are: Domain Validation (DV) Organization Validation (OV) Extended Validation (EV) While all three have their uses, there are
How to Make Site Backups
If you're human like most of us, then you have probably had the unfortunate experience of losing hours (or even days) worth of work due to an accidental coding mistake or mis-typed command. When this happens, the end result is spending even more time trying to duplicate the work that was lost. Wouldn't it be nice if there was an "easy" button that could be used to instantly revert such a mistake? This article will explore how you can create your very own "easy" button by manually backing up your site which will allow for instant rollbacks when needed.
What is SSL?
What is SSL? SSL – or Secure Sockets Layer – is the standard for establishing an encrypted connection between a web browser and a web server. The encrypted connection uses cryptography to obscure the data being sent between the two parties,
With HTTP on the Way Out, Total Encryption is on the Way In
Prepare yourself for the proliferation of 100% encryption across the internet. According to a February 2016 Netcraft report, just 3% of all websites use SSL/TLS encryption. That leaves a staggering majority – 97% – of the internet unsecure. That figure is