Tweet Although we haven’t posted to the blog in a bit, that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy behind the scenes. Quite the opposite! Here are a few things we’ve been busy working on lately…   Upcoming TLS 1.0 End of Life Preps (PCI related) I’m actually quite shocked this isn’t a much bigger issue […]

Tweet Whats in a name? For Mr. Shakespeare and his cast of players perhaps nothing but when it comes to computers, the make up of a name can have great meaning and power. It’s important to note that how you name a file, product, SKU, etc. can become an issue especially if you become too […]

Tweet Passwords, just the thought of dealing with them can make people groan. We know they are necessary, like eating right and exercising; but we all cheat when we can. The problem is cheating never leads to good things. While breaking into web sites via passwords is not the most common way of getting in, […]

Tweet It is the necessary evil of domain name ownership.  The official name is AuthInfo Code, but registrars use a variety of names: Auth Code Authorization Code EPP Authentication Code EPP Authorization Code EPP Code Transfer Key What Is It? No matter what name is used, its goal is the same – to protect you […]

Tweet It happens to everyone once in a while – you send an email and it bounces back undeliverable.  You end up with a cryptic email which may have 30-40 lines of strange information in it, but what do you do to fix it?  Luckily the most common issues are easily resolved and the details […]

Tweet There are a number of tutorials out there for setting up Replication in MySQL. However, I couldn’t find one that fully addressed setting up selective master-slave replication in MySQL. By selective, I am referring to only having one or a few databases that are replicated from the master database to the slave database. Any […]

Tweet  If you haven’t already seen or heard about Heartbleed, the large vulnerability that affected over half a million trusted websites, here is a synopsis, the status of our servers being patched, and my take on why the sky is NOT falling due to this issue. LexiConn is Safe Once this vulnerability was announced, we […]

Tweet There are two broad types of ecommerce solutions: 1. Software that is installed in a hosting account (like ShopSite or Magento) -or- 2. Software as a service [SaaS] (no installation or ownership of files like Volusion, Shopify, BigCommerce, etc…) (Remotely hosted shopping cart) Although the idea of not having to install or maintain any […]

Tweet Accessing email on a mobile device (smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc…), while connected to a public or unsecured wireless network, can lead to your password(s) being intercepted and used by spammers.  To help protect you on these networks, we would recommend configuring mobile devices to use SSL (Secure Socket Layer). The SSL protocol transmits information […]

Tweet One of our ecommerce clients was recently featured on NBC’s Today Show in the Segment “Jill’s Steals and Deals”. The Today Show highlights a few products with very aggressive discounts, and generates tens of thousands of visitors in just a few minutes. This particular client uses Magento for their ecommerce software. Magento presents many […]