Easter 2013 Super Sale!

We have numerous promotions and products on special sale until the 2nd April!

• Hosting
• Domains
• Migrations
• Referral promotion for existing clients!
• Little Bento Shop Sponsorship & promotion

Would you like HALF PRICE hosting?

Here at Little Hero Hosting & Little Hero Designs we love a sale so this Easter we are having a super hosting sale.

Purchase any hosting package, & receive it for half price, thats 50% off when you use the promotion code Easter at checkout!

No matter what term you sign up for over the next 10 days you receive it for HALF PRICE!

If you’ve been considering a website but never took the plunge, this is a great opportunity for you to get started! You can see our hosting packages here To order your hosting go here

Domain specials:

.biz domains are currently just $4.70 for 1 year! Normally $9.95 for a year.
.org domains $5.79 for 1 year. Normally $9.95 for a year.
.com.au .net.au .org.au .id.au – $25.00 for 2 years, Normally $29.95 unbeatable value!
.com .net .info .name just $9.95 for 1 year
.me just $25.00 1 year
.asia just $4.29 1 year. Normally $14.95/yr.
.co just $10.74 1 year. Normally $29.95/yr.
.in just $8.94 1 year. Normally $9.95/yr.
*Other extensions available

Have you always wanted to migrate your blog from blogger or WordPress.com to Self-hosted WordPress? Now is the time to do it!

Until the 2nd April we are offering $50 off all migrations!*

• Under 150 Posts +$150 $100
• 151-300 Posts +$175 $125
• 301-500 Posts +$200 $150
• 501-750 Posts +$225 $175
• 751-1000 Posts +$275$225
• Over 1000 posts please contact us for a custom quote.

Promotion ends Midnight 2^nd April 2013.

* Migration includes:

• WordPress install and setup
• All posts
• Pages
• Images
• Comments *We make no guarantee we can migrate Intense Debate or Disqus comments
• Updating of internal url’s and file paths
• Redirection from old blog to new blog
• Updating of permalinks

To order a hosting package please go here - Use code Easter when finalising your shopping cart ordering to receive your discount. 

To order Migration please see here ( manual invoice will be created)

If you would like a quote on migration and design custom bundle please email

Yvette from Little Bento Blog & Shop has been one of our most successful transfers from blogger to WordPress. Yvette will tell you that moving her blog was the best move she ever made. Not only did her readership and popularity grow, she was able to bring her “Dream to Reality”  and open her very own business as a result of increased exposure! Yvette believes that everyone should take the opportunity to migrate if they want to and so is a proud sponsor of our Easter migrate promotion. As part of Yvette and Little Bento Shop’s sponsorship they have kindly decided to give everyone who takes advantage of our $50 off migrate sale a 20% Little Bento Shop discount voucher!

Referral Promotion
Everyone likes something for free so we are giving you the opportunity to get some hosting for free!

All you need to do is refer your friends and colleagues to LHH and when they place an order you will receive 3 months of hosting!

The more people you refer to Little Hero Hosting, the less usage you have to pay for.

• Refer 1 new client - Receive 3 months free
• Refer 2 new clients – Receive 6 months free
• Refer 3 new clients – Receive 9 months – Half a year free!
• Refer 4 new clients – Receive 12 months – A year free!

Conditions:

*Only 1 discounted hosting package per customer
*Only 1 discounted Migration per customer
*Discount is not carried over after the promotion ends & prices will return to regular prices at next due invoice.

• All referrals must pay for their hosting package before they are credited to your total.
• All referrals MUST mention your name in the box provided at the time of signup so we can verify the referral.
• The promotion includes any hosting package for both those referring & those signing up.
• The half price promotion is available for new hosting packages only.
• To be eligible for the free hosting your account must be active & all due invoices paid.
• If you are receiving credit for a referral and have paid in advance for a year the date which your next invoice is due will be advanced.
• New referrals must make 3 payments or stay with us for at least 3 months for credit to be allocated to the referrer.
• Credit will be given to referrers upon completion of the 3rd payment from the referral. If the referred client pays 6 or 12 months in advance credit will be given immediately

If you need help or have any questions please contact us and one of the friendly team will be happy to help you out.

There has been so many reports of WordPress sites being hacked and compromised in the blogging community lately.  Imagine what Nikki and Tina went through when they discovered issues with their blogs. Blogs which are a source of income and business, their livelihood.

Imagine going to your blog as normal to find that you had lost access to your dashboard or that your readership levels had dropped because every time a reader went to go there they were hit with a big warning, site compromised or hacked!

Hacks come in all forms from stealing your login details and locking you out of your site to redirecting your readers to a 3rd party website which then downloads viruses and keylogging trojans into their computer. Below are just some of the ways your site may be acting after a security breach:

• Malicious software being installed on your visitor’s computer.
• An excessive amount of unwanted comments and ugly spam links.
• Being labelled and blacklisted by search engines as a dangerous website. When a search engine visitor clicks on the link to your website, they are sent to a web page that says, “Warning – visiting this website may harm your computer!”
• Having parts or all of your site being completely wiped out.

Whatever the hack  and its effect, it’s a scary time and heart in your mouth scenario.

I often get asked why are people getting hacked and are there some common reasons or links. While it isn’t always possible to know why or how it happened there are some stand out reasons why blogs are vulnerable and are an easy target which all blog owners should be aware of.

WordPress sites vulnerable to hijackings are ones that :

1. Are running on Outdated WordPress versions
2. Outdated plugin versions namely : Google Analytics, WP Addthis, WP Touch, WP Total Cache
3. Using an old version plugin TimThumb – this plugin was a major source of security breaches for many users however it has been written from scratch and reports are now that the new version is safe.
4. Not monitoring visitor activities via Webstats
5. Using the default userid, i.e. “admin” While no-one can 100% guarantee that your site is safe there are steps you can take to protect yourself and the blog you have worked so hard at building. It’s important to remember that there is no such thing as hack-proof, even the FBI and other Government agencies get’s hacked.
6. Using a weak password

Here is a list of steps to minimize vulnerability for WordPress sites.

1. ALWAYS … update to the latest WP version. Updates can be annoying and for some users downright scary but these updates or patches are released for a reason and more often than not because of identified weaknesses which have been repaired.
2. ALWAYS …. update to the latest plugins
3. Do not use the same USERID and PASSWORD as the cPanel and MYSQL
4. Use different USERID and PASSWORD for different sites/domains.
5. Change the default extension of the db tables from wp_ to something else.
6. Change your login password regularly.
7. Deactivate and delete all unused plugins from the plugins folder.
8. Know what plugins you are installing and what they do.
9. Ensure that the plugins you are installing are up to date and are compatible with the latest version of WordPress
10. As added security, ensure your cPanel passwords are also secure – the original password given on sign up was difficult to remember for a reason.

There are a few things to remember when choosing themes and plugins:

1. Always Research your themes and plugins!
2. Ask yourself the following questions:
   • Is the plugin or theme in active development?
   • Are the authors upgrading with the WordPress development cycle?
   • Is the plugin or theme from a reputable source eg WordPress.org repository.
   • Is the plugin or theme up to date
   • Does the author of the plugin or theme update them quickly
   • Is there support provided by the authors?
   • What are the reviews saying about the plugin or theme?

As I wrote above we cannot always prevent a security breach but we can take the above steps to help protect ourselves. Unfortunately it can happen to anyone who owns a website and when it does you need to take action to clean the website and protect it.

LHH has teamed up with Sucuri to provide a monitoring and malware removal service.

LHH has secured lower prices for our clients and even non clients and are thrilled we can help give you peace of mind.

To find out more about this new service please see here.

There is part 2 of our series on website protection and backup’s. Over the next few weeks we will be writing about how to backup and how to protect yourself online!

Part one is found here

Part 3 is found here