Financial software is costly.
Here's a terrific alternative to QuickBooks, without the cost! Yes, that's right, Wave has a fully featured FREE version.
For small business owners, non-profits and for personal use, this makes Cents (saves some) :)
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If you find yourself searching for a solution to pass credentials or other confidential information between you and another party, look into Sendinc.
Free account, encryption, MS Outlook Add-In, terrific option for sending secure email!
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The best prevention to being caught by phishing: Never follow (click) a link from an email to login to an account. Use your browser to navigate to the website and login. Stay secure.
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Test yourself with the Phishing IQ test:
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What does phishing look like from CompTIA:
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SEMRush is now providing their Social Media Toolkit for Free! We highly suggest any business owner (or social marketer even on a personal level) take advantage of the offer. You can share to multiple social channels at once, track performance, gain insights and more.
Simplify the process and reduce your time managing social posts.
At Hightown Hill we utilize SEMRush on nearly all web design and development projects internally and for clients. It's an valuable tool for SEO and SEM. If you're looking for assistance with search engine optimization and search engine marketing, Contact Us today!
Search Engine Optimization - SEO
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There are many web hosting options available. All seem to offer the same or similar features, but in reality, it's not the same level of service.
Recently, a client was affected by a ransomware attack on a major web host which crippled over 400,000 websites. While in the process of restoring the client's site, we were tasked with reviewing and providing a list of alternative hosting providers. Needless to say, not all hosting providers are the same, even when they seem to offer the same services and features. Your intellectual property, users and customers private information is at stake. Instead of a lengthy list of mediocre, confusing and shady web hosts, we have narrowed down those hosts we personally have dealt with which had the best security, reliability, prices, features, ease of use, and support(customer service).
Microsoft Azure
Now for those exceptions, our particular client required Windows hosting for the shopping cart platform AspDotNetStorefront. Due to the platforms technical requirements, IONOS, HostGator and a handful of other hosts, could not support the latest release of AspDotNetStorefront due to their internal hosting configurations at the present time. For those searching for hosting for AspDotNetStorefront, your best bet is to host with Vortx (Parent company). Vortx has developed the fully featured, secure shopping cart platform AspDotNetStorefront, and they know how it runs best! A couple other viable hosting options would be a Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine, IONOS or HostGator Virtual Private Servers.
When you have hosting questions, please drop us line, we'd love to chat!
We proudly present My Hope Essentials
At Hightown Hill, we had the wonderful opportunity to take the owners ideas of establishing the startup e-commerce store, My Hope Essentials and provide a fully featured turn key e-commerce solution, leaving nothing out. We desired to see the project through from start to finish, providing a roadmap to the owner and handling all technical and business aspects related building and operating an e-commerce store.
Please visit My Hope Essentials and let us know what you think!
Your Guest Wi-Fi Network(available on most routers) has additional uses besides temporary internet access.
By separating Wi-Fi access on your network with the Guest Network SSID and separate WPA2 passphrase, you can protect your normal Wi-Fi passphrase from being discovered. Additionally, you should restrict the Guest Network so that it doesn't have access to your local network. This reduces the possibility of discovering and compromising the other devices (the important ones) on your local network.
We suggest placing all IoT devices(when possible) on your Guest Network if you are not required to access them by IP address, that is when they are accessible through the internet via an app. Devices like SONOS speakers which require connecting to the local IP address must be connected to the same local network as your handheld device or tablet. Ring and similar devices can be placed on the Guest Network since they require an internet connection and are accessible through the internet via the app on your handheld device or tablet.
If you need help determining if this is feasible with your specific IoT device, please leave a comment with the device Mfg. and model number.
There are instances when updating production servers, dev machines and other business critical resources which have unintended results like discovering a new issue arose from the update itself. At times these updates must be put off and patched later.
Most end user devices, laptops and computers don't suffer from the same pitfalls of updating business critical software and hardware and should be updated immediately especially when it comes to security.
If you are an Android user, don't wait to update! However, the same is true for any mobile OS. Take the time to install updates.
Hightown Hill is a tech solution provider that aims at assisting business growth by leveraging technology.
At Hightown Hill, we specialize in the development and maintenance of business websites, digital marketing, improving and securing business systems and networks. We help navigate, plan and implement solutions to assist in business operations, simplify internal processes, and promote sustained business growth.
We have over 10 years of experience in e-commerce, marketing, advertising, technical SEO, SEM, web design and development, system, security and network administration.