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How to Integrate a Mailchimp Mailing List with WordPress

Peter Viola January 19, 2020 Wordpress
Having a mailing list is a important aspect to operating a website that is often overlooked. Engaging your audience via email is great way to bring visitors back to …
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The Best PayPal WordPress Plugin I Have Ever Used

Peter Viola December 5, 2019 Wordpress
Have you ever wanted to accept a payment with your web site but didn’t know how to get started?  Accepting online payments via real-time credit card authorizations requires an …
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How to Securely Erase Hard Drives

Peter Viola November 24, 2019 Gadgets, Security, Windows 10
Recently I found a few old 2.5” laptop hard drives in storage and figured I would try sell them for a few bucks on Ebay but first I wanted …
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Easy USB Drive Mirroring With Windows 10 Storage Spaces

Peter Viola September 7, 2019 Gadgets, Windows 10
Speaking from experience having a computer hard drive fail is not when you want to discover your backup software didn’t run overnight and you’ve lost some important data. Laptops …
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Upgrade PHP 7 on Windows Server with WebPI

Peter Viola July 14, 2019 Wordpress
I was recently working on a Windows Server which hosts a WordPress site that had been upgraded from version 4.x to version 5.3. While reviewing the WordPress Dashboard afterwards …
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Protecting a WordPress Contact Form with reCAPTCHA

Peter Viola June 11, 2019 Wordpress
Having a contact form is one of the most important pages a web site can have. It enables you to receive communication for your audience or customers without having …
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IIS 8.5 SNI – Fixing SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

Peter Viola June 2, 2019 IIS, Windows Server 2012
As you probably know SSL certificates use the https protocol to encrypt communication between your web browser and the web server hosting the web site you’re visiting. You can …
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Resolving IIS WMSVC Underlying Connection Was Closed

Peter Viola December 8, 2018 IIS, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012
IIS Manager Remote Administration is a handy tool for for a web server administrator when you have multiple servers to manage. This feature will save you the trouble of …
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Securing SmarterMail in 10 Steps

Peter Viola December 1, 2018 Email, SmarterTools
You may not be familiar with SmarterMail from Smatertools.com but it is an enterprise class Windows based mail server. It has a powerful web based management GUI and the …
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MX Guarddog – Unparalleled Free Spam Filtering

Peter Viola November 11, 2018 Email, Security
According to the  IBM Threat Intelligence Index Spam email volume continues to rise every year as does the threat from sophisticated phishing emails or seemingly innocuous messages with malicious …
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