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Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities

A recent vulnerability was announced on January 3, 2018, affecting all modern processors. There are two parts to the released vulnerability, and they are as follows:

Meltdown: Allows applications to access operating system memory, providing access to secrets such as passwords. This affects modern Intel chips. There are patches available, however, at this point there seems to be some issues with these patches, causing system instability and slow downs.

Spectre: Breaks the isolation between error-free applications, which allows a malicious application to read memory from another application. This affects all modern chips; Intel, AMD, and ARM.

More information about these vulnerabilities can be found here.… Read the rest

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Black Friday Web Hosting Deals 2017

Black Friday Web Hosting Deals

As soon as the clock strikes midnight (Central time) on Monday, November 20th we’re going to be starting our Black Friday Sales Week. We will be issuing a number of different offers throughout the week that will allow you to save BIG on all Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, and Semi-Dedicated Enterprise Hosting packages!

This year we are will be a number of different discounts that will change from time to time. There is a limited number of coupons for each product, but the best (ok maybe the worst) part is we are keeping that private.… Read the rest

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Cyber Monday Web Hosting Sale

Black Friday may be over, but we have saved some of the best deals for our Cyber Monday Sale. While Black Friday may be the biggest shopping day of the year, Cyber Monday caters to internet businesses like MonsterMegs and deserves the utmost attention. That’s why this year we have huge savings of up to 70%. We have deals on our all our hosting services that include our Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, and our high performance Enterprise Hosting.

All Cyber Monday deals will run through 11:59 pm (CST) on Monday, November 28th. To view our unbelievable 2016 Cyber Monday specials, click the button below.… Read the rest

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MonsterMegs Black Friday 2016 Hosting Sale

Black Friday is right around the corner and for 2016, we have some amazing offers available. Our Black Friday Sale is by far the best time to save some serious cash on our various web hosting services. This year we have savings of up to 65%. We have deals on our all our hosting services that include our Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, and our high performance Enterprise Hosting.

All deals will begin on Thursday, November 24th at 6:00 pm (CST) and will continue until 11:59 pm (CST) on Friday, November 25th. To view our amazing 2016 Black Friday specials, click the button below.… Read the rest

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MonsterMegs Now Offers Free Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates

Today we are happy to announce that we are one of the first cpanel web hosting providers to provide free Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates directly from your cpanel, on all our hosting services. Those of you that may now be familiar with Let’s Encrypt’s mission, the project aims to make encrypted connections in the World Wide Web free and available to all. By getting rid of payment, web server configuration, validation emails and dealing with expired certificates it is meant to significantly lower the complexity of setting up and maintaining TLS encryption.

So what does all this mean? Well, in layman’s terms, you can now install a free browser-trusted certificate on any domain or subdomain in your account with just a few clicks.… Read the rest