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Most of you will be familiar with the old program called Internet Explorer because it was one of the first programs that allowed you to surf the Internet. The first version of Microsoft Internet Explorer came out on August 16 1995 and it came standard with a purchase of Microsoft Plus for Windows 95.It has been more than 20 years since the first version was released and in an earlier blog post we also announced that Microsoft advises against using Internet Explorer. So it has been known for a while

If you are familiar with or using Microsoft Visual Studio then you may already have noticed that Visual Studio Online has been announced. This is a service that runs online with which you can develop software from the web browser which is of course very handy if you need to get there quickly to make changes. For example if you do not have access to a PC with Visual Studio then you can easily get to it with the online variant. What features this online version of Visual Studio will have is unfortunately

If you've been using our services for a while then you'll probably be familiar with our knowledge base. Here we have all kinds of manuals and tips on how to install certain content management systems such as WordPress. It also contains more general information such as answers to frequently asked questions so you can find answers to questions about hosting for example. Last Friday we put our new knowledge base live in this blog post we will discuss what exactly has changed. What has changed The

Earlier this year Microsoft had announced that Visual Studio 2019 would be generally available in April 2019. This is of course heartening news for if you are using asp hosting. In this blog post we're going to cover what's new in Microsoft Visual Studio 2019. Useful features With the new version of Visual studio there are of course many things that have changed and improved one of those things is the search feature. This is one of those things that was already in the previous version however it

If you use a lot of passwords on the Internet then you may have stored them somewhere. This could be in your browser in a text file on a piece of paper or in a program like Last Pass. Mozilla will soon come out with their own password manager called Firefox Lockbox and this app will soon be available for Android. This Android app synchronizes with the data stored in your web browser so you can save the passwords of your hosting also on your Android phone. If you need your password quickly you can

Drupal users should start updating soon The Content Management system Drupal is one of the better known systems in the world of hosting. At the moment there are more than 1 million users that use Drupal the majority of them are still using Drupal 7. Approximately 70 percent still use Drupal 7 however this version gets an end of life status in 2021 this means that there will be no more support and security updates. What are the consequences of this? When you want to continue using Drupal 7 there

If you use our hosting then you will probably have come across it already. In this blog post we will cover FTP one of the most commonly used methods to move files. We are going to explain in this blog post what exactly FTP is and how you can use it. What is FTP FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and it is a method used to send files from a client (local) to a server. At MijnHostingPartner it is so that if you use this method you can place your local files in your web environment. You can use

WordPress 5 Beta is Available If you're into websites a lot then you've probably heard of or used WordPress. WordPress is the most popular Content Management System out there. It is used on 30 percent of all websites. So the chances are pretty good that you also use WordPress. On November 5 2018 WordPress announced that they have put the beta version of WordPress 5 live. This allows you to test the latest version of WordPress but it is not recommended to use this version for your website. What's

Google Chrome will block all misleading ads Ads we all see them come along at some point and they can be quite annoying. There are also misleading ads Google Chrome wants to block these kinds of ads starting with version 71. According to Google itself more than half of all misleading ads are not blocked.This is of course very annoying if you do not use an Adblocker. However this does not only apply to ads Chrome will also warn about unclear subscriptions. As an example they have given a web page