You pay more to host your site with Synthesis. Days like yesterday are why. A Zero-Day exploit of the Linux kernel was made available that forced us to take immediate action in the form of an immediate patch and hard reboot.

A 404 error is generated by your server when a requested URL is not found. This post will help you decide if action needs to be taken and what action you should take.

We do not allow phpexec() calls on our servers. It opens your site up to danger without enough of a system-wide reward to justify the risk. And it’s why Synthesis-hosted sites were never in danger of being exploited by what Sucuri called a very serious vulnerability.

You’ve told us backups are important to you and we’ve been listening. That’s why we are so excited to officially announce the latest Synthesis innovation: Synthesis Personal Backups for S3, a backup system that truly is unlike any other. It is now live and available for all Synthesis customers to use. And did we mention [...]

We’ve just released Genesis 1.9.2, which represents a few bug fixes that we wanted to address prior to our next major release of the framework. The upgrade is easy and you should take this opportunity to get your site up to date with the latest version of Genesis.

A breached version of a popular plugin – the Social Media Widget plugin – was uploaded to the WordPress plugin repository in recent weeks. The breach was discovered last night. Here is the bottom line:

If you are updating your theme or plugin files through the WordPress dashboard editor, you’re doing it wrong. The proper way is via FTP, and in this post we show you how to connect using CyberDuck and lay out a few important FTP ground rules.

The WordPress upgrade system is vastly improved. However, there are still some steps you can take to ensure that your upgrades go smoothly.