Advanced WordPress Blog Hosting
Acumen Web Services offers advanced worry free WordPress blog hosting for business owners.
When Acumen Web Services began advocating WordPress blogs as the “smart” alternative to “traditional” web sites to business owners in 2005 – we already had nearly 8 years of experience creating and maintaining the “old style” web sites for business owners. Back in those days, when clients wanted a way for visitors to communicate easily via the web – the best and most economical way to allow that kind of communication online was to launch a bulletin board. Online bulletin boards allowed visitors to leave comments and engage in conversations via the web in the days before MySpace, Facebook and blogs.
It was our experience with those easy to use bulletin board systems that inspired our advanced WordPress hosting service.
One of the most painful bulletin board experiences began as a full fledged success story. A Virtual Impax client (Acumen Web Services is a division of Virtual Impax) created a product which can achieve effortless weight loss. Seriously! What’s truly amazing is that it worked like magic for hundreds of customers. This client launched a bulletin board as a way to allow her customers to easily share their success stories (testimonials) via the bulletin board. Of curse, other discussions happened there too – like other weight loss products they had tried which had failed. Everything went well at first. Her bulletin board was active with users sharing their success stories about her product. It wasn’t long before these online conversations began to rank highly for desirable and competitive keywords – and that’s when the trouble began.
This client had not contracted to for ongoing maintenance on the bulletin board software. Meanwhile, bulletin board applications were becoming known in SEO circles for easily achieving favorable SERPs (Search Engine Ranking Positions). Hackers set out to “crack” the code and find a way to bypass the anti-spam controls built into the software to post their own “links” and content directly. While the software developers had developed a series of software patches to stop such attacks, the client was not aware of the danger and didn’t upgrade her installation of the software. It wasn’t until her return from an extended vacation that she noticed the leads from her bulletin board dried up. She went to investigate the problem and discovered her bulletin board was now filled with spam and outgoing links to “bad” neighborhoods.
She chose to not invest the time removing tens of thousands of spammy posts from her bulletin board and lost this valuable business asset as a result.
The lesson of this lost resource was not lost on Acumen Web Services founder, Kathy Hendershot-Hurd. When Kathy began launching business blogs through Acumen Web Services, she saw that WordPress blogs – like the bulletin board software – made it easy to create search engine friendly content. She worried about setting other business owners up with a powerful web tool which might suffer the same fate as the bulletin board software had in years past.
As a result, Kathy created “Cyber Angel Hosting” for her Acumen Web Services WordPress business blog clients.
Cyber Angel Hosting means Acumen Web Service clients never have to worry about updating their installation of WordPress or the plugins because regular updates are performed as part of the Cyber Angel Hosting service. Keeping plugins and the core code updated is recommended by WordPress code developers and is proven to provide a level of protection that is unsurpassed.
Cyber Angel Hosting is offered for only $35 per month. Click the button below to subscribe (or renew) your subscription via Paypal.
Please note that Acumen Web Services clients do not HAVE to subscribe to the Cyber Angel Hosting service – but those who don’t need to remember to make sure to keep their installation of WordPress up to date on their own.
Over the years – several clients have chosen to find their own hosting for their business blogs. Their intentions are good when they commit to keeping their installation of WordPress current . Unfortunately, many of these clients have later contacted Acumen Web Services requesting help in restoring their business blog which has been hacked due to not maintaining the latest version of WordPress.
One Acumen Web Services client launched a WordPress blog under her name as the domain name with the full intention of staying up to date on her own with the updates. She is highly disciplined well respected Change Management Consultant who landed a prestigious long term consulting gig with a Fortune 100 company within months of launching her WordPress business blog. Her good intentions feel behind the formidable demands of being a change agent within a huge corporation.
Imagine her horror when – two years later – she got an email from an irate business owner who threatened to sue her if she didn’t stop spamming him. To her horror, hackers had accessed her blog and installed a program to send spam emails – from the blog hosted under the domain name which is HER NAME.
It wasn’t difficult to “fix” the problem. Simply updating WordPress terminated the malicious plugin’s actions. However, the damage to her reputation by sending relentless spam to tens of thousands of business owners wasn’t as easy to remedy.
Is is possible for you to update your WordPress blog on your own?
Of course it is.
Tens of thousands of WordPress blog owners recognize the importance of running the latest version of WordPress and update with religious intensity.
However, updating WordPress and plugins is just another thing Acumen Web Services clients don’t have to worry about.
Acumen Web Service business bloggers can focus on creating business blog content which works as hard as they do at creating more business for their businesses.
Cyber Angel hosting is only $35 per month and is included in all of our business blog launch products.
If you’re an Acumen Web Services client – and something has happened to suspend or cancel your subscription click the link below to renew.
If you aren’t an Acumen Web Services client – but you’d like to transfer your blog to our hosting, contact us for more information.
