ThinkOvi! – Website transfer and Server migration services

Installing PHP on Windows got easier! finally….!

It seems that, earlier this year, Microsoft released a small application called Web Platform Installer , a utility meant to be dead simple to install a range of web applications and get your website up and going fast on a IIS server. Beside the usual Microsoft web applications support like ASP.NET and SQL SERVER, they also added support for PHP, facilitating this way the installation of a range of web publishing tools like Drupal, Moodle and Wordpress, hope I see some Joomla! there as it'...

Transfering files securely

Are you thinking of transferring some files from your server to another location over an unsecured network? Lets say those files contain some important data(ex. your credit card database data) and you are a little paranoid when thinking about unsecured network connections. In case you are running Linux, you are in luck, the Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) is an free encryption tool that can encrypt or sign your files/archives with a password or an access key. Basic usage open up a ssh ter...

Choosing a good host for your site!

Choosing a good hosting company for your website/business is essential in your successful presence online. From our experience not all hosting companies provide what they advertise, however you need to think twice when moving your site on their servers. It's like taking your car to the car wash, do you trust them they won't scratch it? What might be good for someone with lets say a simple html website, might not be really that good for you, since you would need more resources when runnin...

What happens when your employee goes BAD?

We've recently been contracted to move a client sites between servers. Well the job has been finished, sites were working correctly on the new server until recently, a few weeks after the move, when he discovered an old employee of his installed much to our surprise a lot of backdoor code inside the sites so that he could get unauthorized access at any time. By doing this, he managed to delete a lot of important database data as far as we checked. While I do not have the details of their ...

Welcome to ThinkOvi!

We are offering you the best services to get your website transfered to a new host with minimal downtime and worries. Please check our Website migration detailed service description, and send us an Inquiry, we will try to respond as soon as possible. We can also migrate entire servers or applications to new hosting environments, please check our dedicated Server Migration service description.