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eSGR Newsletter
March 2018 |
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| We provide the Infrastructure for Your services. |
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| Since our last newsletter we have released Halcyon 6.1, had to upgrade most of our servers due to the Intel CPU bugs, moved completely to NVME storage for shared hosting, provided free bandwidth upgrades to everyone and made sure all of our customers have a free SSL certificate. |
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| Our fastest and safest version of the Halcyon Engine is online. |
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| We have upgraded all of our plans with higher bandwidth limits for Free. |
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| Since August 2017 we are fully compatible with the new EU regulation. |
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Did you know?
Soteria is our ML Web Application Firewall, it is active on all of your services and is automatically identifying and mitigating threats 24/7/365. |
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| 2018 an interesting year. |
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| General Data Protection Regulation affects every business that has an online or offline presence as long as it handles customer data in digital form. |
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| Chrome will stop showing sites if they are not over https:// during June. Instead you will receive a warning notifying you that this is not a secure site. |
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| Active : 2018-02-20 |
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| Free Bandwidth Upgrades & NVME Storage |
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| All of our shared hosting accounts will receive free Bandwidth upgrades for life. At the same time we are moving all of our customers to our new NVME SSD infrastructure. |
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| Will it affect me? |
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Yes it will.
GDPR is a very broad regulation. |
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| Can you indemnify me? |
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| The short answer is No. If though you are hosting your app with us we can assist your security officer with the compliance process. |
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| Who can I contact? |
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We have partnered with Christopoulos Advocates and they will do their best to help you with the compliance process.
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| Do I need a Lawyer? |
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| At its current spec the GDPR is complicated enough that we would propose you contact a lawyer knowledgeable on the matter. |
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For our next release we will be working on:
- Expand SEO builder functionality
- Provide UI options for Sitemaps
- Enable API access to Hermes
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| Due : 2018-08-18 |
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| Halcyon 6.3 |
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| SSL |
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| The encrypted web initiative |
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Most browsers will stop serving content on or after this June, instead of providing the website they will show a security notification and block access unless the user accepts liability. The introduction of that block will result in huge losses in traffic even if your site is not malicious.
This will not affect any of our clients since we have been providing free SSL certificates since 2016 and during 2017 we made sure that every account is being served over https. We have even gone a step further and for all CMS we support we have forced the connections to go over https using server redirects. |
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| Security |
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| SSL makes sure all the traffic between the client and the server is encrypted and cant be read or altered. |
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| http/2 |
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| http/2 can function only over https and is in effect replacing the old http/1.1 protocol. Its faster and safer, read more here |
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| SEO |
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| Most search engine are promoting https:// sites a lot higher than the ones that are not accessed over SSL. |
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| http/2 |
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| Why you should care |
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| In 2016 we started providing http/2 to customers. During that time SSL was not deemed as important for hosts but without it we couldnt provide http/2. |
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| Multiplexing |
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| With http/2 we can send multiple paylods in one TCP connection. Halcyon is trying to send 100% of the load viewport to the client one the first connection. |
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| Server Push |
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| Since we analyze client traffic we can predict the next request and immediatelly push it to the client after the viewport is loaded. |
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| Prioritization |
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| No matter what CMS you used to create your app in we identify what is needed by a client on page load and prioritize the elements that will render the app faster. |
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Binary Transfer
We transfer almost all elements of your app in binary blobs that are more compact and faster to render. |
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Header Compression
By compressing the headers of the request we reduce round trips and data transfer |
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| Web Hosting |
| Standard |
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| €100 |
| SSL Certificate |
| DV SSL |
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| €19 |
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| €50 |
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