Backing up is something people know they should do, but put off until some unspecified day in the future. It never seems urgent and there’s always something more pressing to do. At least, that’s true until the moment disaster strikes and you kick yourself for not backing up sooner.
In 2017, a lack of backups caused catastrophic destruction and expense across Europe and the US. Thousands of businesses and individuals lost important data, money, and time. We tend to focus on the immediate cause of data loss – in this case, ransomware, but those losses could have been prevented with up-to-date automated backups.
There is nothing you or I can do about the existence of deeply unpleasant people who think hacking and ransomware attacks are a good way to make a living. But we can protect ourselves from them, and backups are one of the best ways to keep your WordPress website safe and to deprive criminals of an income.
Ransomware is propagated by worms — a type of malware — or by social engineering attacks like phishing. Once a server or site is compromised, data is encrypted and the ransom demand displayed. From this point, the situation can go one of two ways. The victim could pay the attacker (a bad choice) or face the consequences of losing their data. Or, they could think to themselves, “Nice try!” before blowing away the infected site and restoring from a recent backup.
If you don’t have an automated backup system in place, there’s no better time than now to get started — ransomware attacks will only grow in sophistication and ferocity in 2018.
What Makes a Good Backup?
A backup that can protect a WordPress site against ransomware must be up-to-date, automatic, and stored offsite. If the backup isn’t up-to-date, it’s better than nothing, but the older it is, the more data is at risk.
The backup system should be automatic because you would have to be heroically disciplined about manually backing up to keep backups up-to-date. It should be off site because backups on the same server as the site or on a network-attached storage device are as vulnerable to ransomware as the site itself.
It should be mentioned that the standard backups offered by Hostdedi for WordPress hosting plans shouldn’t be your only backup. They are useful for restoring files in some circumstances, but we advise WordPress hosting customers to implement an additional offsite backup strategy.
Backing up Your WordPress Site
There are several excellent no-hassle solutions for backing up a WordPress site to an external location. The easiest to use is Automattic’s backup service — a premium service that is part or the Jetpack plugin collection.
If you would prefer not to use Jetpack, BackupBuddy is a respected premium plugin that provides an intuitive interface for scheduling automatic backups to a range of storage services, including Amazon S3, Google Drive, and Dropbox. The free version of Updraft Plus is less capable, but more than sufficient for scheduling and managing backups on most WordPress sites.
Jeff Bezos is the richest person who has ever lived, according to some sources. While that claim should be taken with a pinch of salt – Bill Gates was richer in real terms before he gave a big chunk of his wealth away – Bezos is certainly the richest person in the world today. That wealth is due to the enormous success of Amazon, and a big chunk of Amazon’s success is due to the stranglehold the company had over one-click purchases.
It would be silly to claim that one-click purchases were the most important factor in Amazon’s success, but we shouldn’t underestimate the difference in conversions and revenue between sites with one-click purchases and those that are required to make shoppers jump through hoops to buy. Experian have estimated that a single additional field on a check out form can cost an eCommerce company millions.
Once customers had become accustomed to one-click purchases, it was only a short hop to enhanced shopping experiences like Amazon’s Alexa, which can be used to make purchases by voice.
Last September, Amazon’s patent on one-click purchases expired. Any eCommerce store is free to implement one-click purchases, and Magento was fast off the blocks with the introduction of Instant Purchases.
Instant Purchases bring radically simplified checkouts to one of the most popular eCommerce platforms in the world, allowing tens of thousands of merchants to benefit from a user experience that was once the domain of a handful of eCommerce giants.
Magento Instant Purchases work like this: a shopper taps the “Instant Purchase” button on a store’s product page, confirms the order, and they’re done. A confirmation message appears and the shopper is free to carry on browsing.
To be able to use Instant Purchases, a shopper must be logged-in to their account, have selected a default billing and shipping method, and have a stored payment method.
A side benefit of Instant Purchases is that they encourage shoppers to create an account with all the necessary information, providing retailers with valuable data and increased opportunities for engagement.
Instant Purchases will also decrease cart abandonment rates. Carts are often abandoned before shoppers have completed the checkout process. With Instant Purchases, the decision is made on the spot. Shoppers are, of course, free to cancel any orders they make, but there’s a big difference between actively canceling an order that has already been made and deciding not to make the order in the first place.
Instant Purchases are worth exploration by any business that sells online. Shoppers have never enjoyed entering large amounts of information or plodding through multiple confirmation dialogues. Most want to be able to make a purchase within the context they made the decision to buy.
Fraud has always been a problem for online retailers, but since the introduction of more secure credit cards in the last few years, much offline retail fraud has moved online. Magento retailers can’t afford to ignore the ever-present risk of fraud, whether it’s the dedicated efforts of criminals gangs with stolen identities or the less predictable casual fraudster who orders products with every intention of initiating a chargeback and keeping the goods.
Fraud prevention is both time and labor intensive, especially for larger eCommerce stores. It’s challenging to check every one of thousands of orders for fraud. And, as I know from personal experience, it’s all too easy to generate false positives and lose a genuine sale.
Last year, I ordered some furniture from a well-known retailer and apparently triggered their internal fraud prevention system. The issue wasn’t handled well, and by the time my order had been freed from the dungeon of manual review, the products I wanted were out of stock.
It’s a hard balance to strike: too strict and false positives eat into profits, too lax and those profits go to fraudsters. eCommerce merchants don’t want to give shoppers a bad experience — no one likes being accused of fraud — but nor do they want to lose money.
Unfortunately, we aren’t yet at a point where fraud prevention can be entirely automated. There’s no replacement for an eCommerce retailer who intuitively knows when a transaction is likely to be false based on extensive knowledge of the customer base and their order patterns.
Although a manual review of Magento eCommerce sales is here to stay, automation can significantly reduce the work involved, green-lighting genuine purchases and blacklisting fraudulent purchases according to the Magento eCommerce retailer’s policies, and passing uncertain orders to a manual review team.
There are several excellent fraud prevention automation tools that integrate well with Magento.
Signifyd
Signifyd, which provides a Magento extension for Magento 1.X, is one of the leading lights in the field of eCommerce fraud prevention. Its platform carries out an extensive series of verification checks on every order, using a combination of machine learning and human analysis.
One of the most interesting features of Signifyd is how it stands by its decisions. When the service approves an order as genuine, it will refund you the lost revenue if it turns out to be fraudulent. That means Magento retailers don’t pay the cost of chargebacks.
The service isn’t free, so individual retailers should compare the cost of using Signifyd to the cost of fraud for their business and make the appropriate decision.
FraudLabs Pro Fraud Prevention
FraudLabs, which provides Magento integration for Magento 2.x, has been in the fraud prevention industry for more than a decade. The free extension is easy to setup, and once installed FraudLabs will run every order through a wide variety of checks including fraud analysis and scoring, IP Geolocation, email address validation, and a custom set of rules, among others.
Orders are categorized as “approved”, “rejected”, and “pending review”, reducing the amount of manual order validation required.
FraudLabs is free for up to 500 transactions, making it ideal for smaller eCommerce stores that want to dip a toe in automatic Magento fraud prevention.
Magento provides everything you need to build an eCommerce store. With specialist Magento hosting and Magento’s ecosystem of extensions and themes, you can go a long way. But, every store is unique and the time may come when your store needs the attention of a developer.
Magento developers can build custom integrations, extensions, and themes for a store, but it can be tricky to hire a qualified developer if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
A basic knowledge of Magento fundamentals helps. Magento is a web application written largely in the PHP programming language with a good dose of JavaScript on the front-end. Data is stored either in a database or on the filesystem in the case of static assets like images.
You can expect a decent Magento developer to be able to write PHP and JavaScript code and to have a working knowledge of databases.
Understand What You Need First
Although a good developer will be happy to guide you towards a solution, it’s useful to have a clear idea what you’re looking for in the first place. Take the time to write a detailed explanation that you can give to a developer. You don’t have to go into any technical depth, but the more certain you are of what you need, the easier it will be for the developer to get started.
Have a Realistic Idea of How Much a Developer Costs
You can expect to pay anything from $40 to $150 per hour for a qualified developer in the US. You may pay less for excellent developers outside of the US, but programming is a skilled and in-demand profession: set your expectations accordingly or the work may not be done to the highest standards.
Finding a Developer
In order of best to worst, here are the methods I use to find great Magento developers:
Personal recommendations. Ask people you know and trust to recommend a Magento developer. Referrals are not always trustworthy, but, in my experience, the hit rate is a lot higher than with some of the other methods we’ll discuss.
Magento development agencies. Magento development agencies like Human Element do the hard work of vetting developers so that you don’t have to. You may pay an agency more than you’d pay a freelance developer, but you also bypass a lot of the hassle involved in finding and hiring someone who can be trusted to do great work.
Social media searches. LinkedIn is often a useful resource, as are Magento-focused Facebook groups.
Freelance websites. Freelance websites like UpWork and Elance can be used to find good developers, but I’d advise against going down this route unless you have failed to find a good candidate elsewhere.
Assessing a Developer
Magento developers range from barely competent to highly skilled. If you aren’t a developer yourself, it can be hard to work out which sort you’re dealing with.
Check out their portfolio. Many freelance developers will be happy to show you a portfolio of work that they have done for other clients. Look for work that is similar to your project.
Ask for references. Some great freelancers don’t bother with portfolios — they get work through recommendations and referrals — but they should be able to provide you with references of previous clients.
Look for Magento Certification. Magento Certification allows developers to prove that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to work with Magento eCommerce stores. Ask about Magento certifications, and then double-check using the Magento Certification Directory.
If you’re still not certain about the quality of a freelance Magento developer, I’d suggest giving them a smaller job before embarking on a long project.
Don’t try to get developers (or any freelance professional) to work for free, even as an assessment: good developers will walk away because they can get more than enough paid work. Instead, offer a small job at their hourly rate.
It’s important to find the right developer for your Magento project. The tips in this article will ensure that you get the best results in a reasonable timeframe.
WordPress is often thought of as a great CMS for bloggers, SMEs, and, with WooCommerce, small to medium eCommerce stores. Its popularity is attributed to the fact that it’s free, it’s easy to use, it has a huge theme and plugin ecosystem, and it’s what people know.
But WordPress is also one of the most popular content management systems in the enterprise space, where cost and ease-of-use are less of a concern. Large organizations with the money to spend on any CMS they want and no shortage of developers and content strategists also choose WordPress rather than enterprise content management systems like Sitecore and Adobe Experience Manager.
That’s the upshot of a recent report that investigated enterprise CMS use. WordPress and Adobe Experience Manager are neck-and-neck as the most used CMS by enterprise organizations and WordPress is the most used secondary CMS. Enterprise organizations use WordPress for corporate websites, for brand and product websites, and for eCommerce stores.
They choose WordPress because it is scalable, it has a robust ecosystem, provides a quicker time-to-market than competing options, and has better security. Just as important is the number of skilled WordPress professionals available to develop and manage WordPress sites, themes, and plugins.
In spite of last year’s multitude of security breaches and data thefts, enterprise organizations take security very seriously, the financial and PR costs of a data loss or hacked website are significant. A properly configured and updated WordPress site is a highly secure foundation for building business critical websites on.
Enterprise organizations have strict requirements and long vetting processes for the technology they deploy. They choose WordPress because it provides the security, performance, and scalability required to build large sites. The huge ecosystem of open source plugins and themes allows enterprise organizations to quickly access the functionality they need. Because WordPress is open source, large companies can verify the code of WordPress and any plugins they use.
In the future, the REST API will also be a major factor in attracting large organizations to WordPress. The API allows WordPress users to build integrations with existing systems and software with a minimum of fuss, making WordPress perfect CMS for businesses with complex content management processes and distribution requirements.
Unlike proprietary content management systems, WordPress helps enterprise users avoid vendor lock-in: there are no licensing fees, long-term support contracts, or platform limitations. Migrating a WordPress site to an alternative hosting platform is more straightforward and less expensive than with proprietary alternatives.
Hostdedi is the ideal hosting platform for organizations looking to combine the flexibility of WordPress with the power of enterprise managed WordPress hosting. Get in touch to find out about our custom managed WordPress clusters.
Collaborative editing is one of those features that I never knew I wanted but loved the minute I understood its power. I’m a huge fan of Google Docs and the way it lets me and my colleagues work together on a document, editing in real time.
Collaborative editing is a powerful tool for learning, teaching, writing, and combining the expertise of different contributors. But, for all its benefits, Google Docs isn’t perfect, and I’ve often wished that I could collaborate within WordPress in the same way I can within a Google document.
WordPress has built-in collaboration features, but they don’t work in real time. Different people can contribute to the same document, but until the work is saved, those changes aren’t reflected in the workspace of other users. Rather than real-time editing, WordPress offers “turn-based” editing. That fits with common editorial workflows, where each piece passes from writer to editor and perhaps back again. But it’s not suitable for concurrent editing.
Wave from Codox brings the benefits of Google Docs-like collaborative editing to WordPress. Wave isn’t a WordPress-specific tool: it’s an app for Google Chrome and the family of browsers that can use Chrome apps, but it works well in the WordPress editing interface.
Wave’s basic features will be familiar to anyone who has used Google Docs. Several contributors can work on a document and the changes each makes are reflected in the interface of the others.
When mentoring or editing writers in WordPress, I’ve often had to send long emails full of quotes and corrections. I could make the changes myself in the WordPress post, but if the goal is to teach it’s necessary to talk through what I’m changing and why. Email is far from ideal, but the combination of a collaborative editing tool like Wave and a Skype or Google Hangouts call is vastly superior.
Once you have installed Wave’s Chrome app, you’ll have to create an account or sign in using a Google account. To start a collaborative editing session, create a new WordPress post or open an existing post, click on the Wave icon that hovers in the browser window, and enter the email addresses of your collaborators.
Invitees receive an email with a link. When they click on the link they’re taken to the WordPress post and can begin editing. It’s a simple process that even the least technical writers and editors won’t have a problem with.
In the future, I’d love to have this functionality integrated directly into WordPress as a plugin or core feature. Although Chrome is the most popular browser, it’s not the only browser and I’d rather not have to insist that everyone who wants to collaborate installs a browser they wouldn’t ordinarily use.
Wave is a tool I can happily recommend to any WordPress user who finds WordPress’s current collaboration features limiting.
Cryptomining malware is a new form of malware that uses the resources of compromised servers and hosting accounts to generate cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin. Before a coin can be created, miners have to demonstrate “proof of work,” which involves computationally intensive mathematical operations. Legitimate miners buy powerful computers to do the hard work, but criminals use malware-infected machines.
Over the last few weeks the value of cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin, has increased quickly. By using compromised machines to generate coins, criminals create a digital asset that can be converted into hard currency. Because the value of cryptocurrencies is rising, we can expect to see more frequent and sophisticated attacks through 2018.
Cryptocurrencies are based on blockchain technology. A blockchain is a distributed ledger, a data structure that records transactions and is shared, modified, and verified by many different network nodes. The ledger records transactions like transfers of coins between users, but also the creation of new coins. You can read more about how new coins are created here, but, in a nutshell, to create a coin a miner has to prove to the network that they have done an amount of work. Without the proof of work, it would be easy for anyone to make coins and individual coins wouldn’t be worth much.
In the early days of cryptocurrencies, creating coins was easy: they could be generated quickly on low-powered hardware. Over time, the amount of work needed increases, and today serious miners use clusters of machines with powerful GPUs. But the alternative to a few high-powered specialized machines is many low-powered machines like laptops and smartphones.
Cryptomining malware — code injected into websites via known vulnerabilities or installed along with pirate themes and plugins — allows its authors to run the proof-of-work calculations on large networks of compromised machines, generating coins with minimal investment.
One of the most popular pieces of cryptomining malware for WordPress sites is called Cloudflare.solutions, which has nothing to do with the real Cloudflare. Discovered earlier this year, cloudflare.solutions loads malicious cryptomining code. When a user opens a page on a compromised site, the malicious code runs and uses the device’s resources to perform mining operations. Hijacking the processor can degrade browser and device performance and diminish battery life.
In an unpleasant twist, cloudflare.solutions has recently been modified to include a keylogger that sends text entered into WordPress text entry fields, including password fields, to the criminals’ servers.
It should be mentioned that some “legitimate” publishers are taking advantage of cryptomining to generate revenue for their sites. I’ll avoid debating the ethics here, but it’s undeniable that a large number of cryptomining scripts found on the web are the result of exploited sites and are funneling money to criminal organizations.
The best way to avoid being infected by cryptomining malware is to follow standard WordPress security best practices: use two-factor authentication, update your WordPress site when new versions are released, and only install themes and plugins from trusted sources.
Given how many people the average brand interacts with nowadays, it’s no surprise that so many have come to rely on customer relationship management platforms. By organizing your business’s relationships and interactions with both clients and potential clients, you keep people happy. By keeping people happy, you grow your brand.
Pretty self-explanatory, right?
Now, there are plenty of CRM solutions on the web – the market is a lot like that for content management systems, in that regard. In my experience, one of the best choices you can make is Oro. With a 360 degree view that integrates every step of the customer journey, the ability to build geographically-targeted campaigns, and superior data organization, it’ll likely prove invaluable in your business’s day-to-day.
As with any platform, OroCRM can be made immensely more effective if you know what you’re doing with it. That’s what we’re here to talk about today. Here are a few tips and tricks you probably weren’t aware of on the platform – use them to build a better brand.
Customize It Via Symfony
Perhaps the biggest strength of OroCRM is that it’s completely open-source, and built on the Symfony 2 Framework, and follows that framework’s standards. You see where I’m going with this, right? If you familiarize yourself with PHP and JavaScript, the world’s your oyster here.
Of course, before you go reinventing the wheel, it’s worth mentioning that OroCRM has a pretty well-populated marketplace of extensions, as well. Have a look to see if someone’s already coded what you’re trying. No sense wasting a ton of effort, right?
Manage Your Inventory
A CRM platform isn’t exactly the first thing you’d think of if one was to mention warehousing. Here’s the thing, though – OroCRM has a sister app called OroCommerce. Not surprisingly, the two platforms are capable of close integration with one another.
That means that with just a few minor tweaks, you can manage both your customers and product stores via a single dashboard – keeping both your customer relationships and inventory that much healthier in the process.
Control Your Workflow
Last but certainly not least, OroCRM allows employees to keep track of their daily activities through a built-in Kanban board. Workers can manage their workflows, keep track of communications between themselves, colleagues, and clients, and add remarks to projects and entries within the app.
You can also assign tasks to individual users to help keep them on-track with their duty, organizing those tasks by priority and managing them from start to finish. Using this functionality, you can ensure your support professionals are more efficient and organized. And that, in turn, will better-equip them to keep your customers happy – and keep them coming back.
Job hunting can be pretty difficult for creative professionals. You’re not in a field like financial services or the sciences, where you’ve got a good transcript and hard numbers to back you up. You’ve only got your work – and it needs to speak for itself.
It can’t really do that if no one can find it.
Whether you’re a graphic designer, a musician, an artist, or a content marketer, you need to have a place where you can showcase what you do. A website to which you can direct both prospective clients and curious friends/family. And in building such a website, WordPress is one of your best options.
Here’s why.
It’s Easy To Use
WordPress isn’t the most popular content management system in the world for nothing. It’s extremely easy to use and manage. I’ve known plenty of writers, for example, who wouldn’t know proper coding standards from a hole in the ground – they’re able to use the platform without any difficulty whatsoever.
Even if you’re building your website from the ground up and just managing it with WordPress (in which case, hire a web designer), most of the work that goes into setting up a portfolio site is at the beginning. Foundational stuff. The day-to-day is nearly effortless.
At this point, given the size and age of WordPress’s plugin development community, I’d go so far as to say that there’s a plugin for everything. And even if you can’t find a plugin to do what you want, you can probably get someone to code it for you.(or code it yourself, if you’re willing to learn PHP).
…And Plenty Of Perfect Themes
Last but certainly not least, let’s talk about themes. Tons of creatives use WordPress to host their portfolios online – many theme creators maintain portfolios themselves. For that reason, there are a ton of elegant, beautiful, and snazzy themes you can use to customize your site’s layout, both free and premium.
So long as you only download from reputable, trusted sources, you can make your website look however you envision.
Show Your Creativity
So, why use WordPress as the backend of your portfolio? The better question is why wouldn’t you? While there are certainly plenty of other content management systems out there that could work, WordPress remains one of the most effective, efficient, and easy to use.
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is set to usher in the next era of European digital compliance this May. As the latest set of European Union (EU) regulations regarding consumer rights, the GDPR has been proposed in order to strengthen and unify data protection for individuals, and address issues with exporting data outside of the EU.
This will mean changes to the way in which many businesses which operate within the EU handle and process customer data. Keep reading to find out how.
What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
The GDPR is a new set of online data security regulations which have been adopted by the EU and will be put in place by May 25.
The main things you need to know are that the GDPR will increase the definition of what constitutes personal data, change the way in which you handle that data, and provide individual EU consumers with increased control over their personal information.
While online data security and consumer rights protections have existed for a long time – in the form of the Data Protection Directive – its definitions and mechanisms date back to 1995. The internet has changed a lot since then and new regulations have long been needed.
The GDPR will apply to all EU member states and any business which is active within them. For many companies both inside and outside of the EU, this will mean a change of strategy in order to continue working within Europe.
Why do we need the GDPR?
In a sentence: because data protection and privacy issues are increasingly becoming a problem.
As internet technology continues to grow so too does the frequency and effect of data breaches. In 2013, there were over 575 million of them. By the first half of 2017, that number had increased to over 1.9 billion. Over 95% of those breaches involved unencrypted data which was not being suitably protected. How does this affect consumers and organizations? By 2019, the total global annual cost of all data breaches is expected to exceed $2.1 trillion in damages.
The GDPR aims to try and reduce these figures by creating a set of data security standards. These are standards which organizations and businesses which operate or have an entity in Europe will need to follow. For some, these increased protections are just “common sense” data security ideas which should have been implemented long ago. For others, they are serious concerns which their business has yet to fully address. In a survey by Deloitte, it was found that just 15% of respondents expected to be fully GDPR compliant by the deadline.
Who Will Be Affected by the GDPR?
Your business will be affected by the GDPR if you are storing or processing information on EU citizens, even if your business or processing centers are not located in the EU.
“This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the [European] Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the [European] Union or not.”
How Will the GDPR Work?
Current data security regulations already require security for names, addresses, and basic ID numbers (i.e. social security). The GDPR aims to take this and provide similar protection for individual IP addresses, cookie data, and more.
By securing this information in a more stringent manner, protection against data breaches and information theft will hopefully decrease. However, you should note that the GDPR does not just address what type of information is protected, it also addresses how it is protected.
Data the GDPR Will Protect Includes:
Names, addresses, and ID numbers
Location data, IP addresses, cookie data and RFID tags
Biometric data
Health-related data
Political opinions
Sexual orientation
Racial and ethnicity data
Additional GDPR Roles
There are three main roles which have been defined by the GDPR which will need to be filled. These roles are responsible for implementation and compliance with the GDPR. They include:
A Data Controller – Responsible for deciding on how personal data is processed and why it is processed.
A Data Processor – Responsible for maintaining and processing personal data records, as well as ensuring that processing partners also comply.
A Data Protection Officer – Responsible for overseeing the data security strategy and making sure that you are GDPR compliant.
GDPR Consent
According to the new GDPR guidelines, consent will become a major factor in the storing of personal information. Consent must be explicitly given by those providing personal information and data controllers must be able to prove this. Furthermore, if an individual would like to withdraw consent, they are able to at any time, whereupon data must be deleted.
GDPR Pseudonymisation
GDPR Pseudonymisation is a process whereby information is transformed so as to not be attributable to a single individual without secondary verification. This means that personal data must be made “unintelligible” without the use of a secondary set of information by which to understand it. This may mean using encryption, or it may mean adopting a tokenization system.
GDPR Data Portability
Data portability concerns “the right for a data subject to receive the personal data concerning them”. This means that data must be portable and easily transferred to its subject in a ‘commonly used and machine readable format’.
By When Do I Have to Be GDPR Compliant?
GDPR compliance will be required by May 25, 2018.
What Are the GDPR fines?
Fines for those who are not GDPR compliant will vary depending on the severity of non-compliance. At this point in time, examples of GDPR fines have not been released.
However, it has been indicated that fines of up to €20 million, or 4% of the worldwide annual revenue of the prior fiscal year, are likely for those who have not followed the basic principles for processing or conditions for consent.
For those who have not managed their monitoring bodies or controllers and processors of the GDPR, fines will instead be up to €10 million, or 2% of the worldwide annual revenue of the prior fiscal year.
Hostdedi and GDPR
In order to help clients who will be affected by the GDPR, Hostdedi will be GDPR compliant. We are currently working to ensure that our policies and procedures comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
In the coming weeks, we will be making sure that you are informed of any changes which take place to Hostdedi’ services. At this point in time, we fully believe that you will be satisfied with those changes.
Note that this guide does not constitute legal advice and is rather an overview of the regulation changes which will take effect. For a full breakdown of the changes taking place, please consult the agreed text from the EUGDPR.org website.
