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Online stores are the backbone of modern retail. Any downtime or data loss can have catastrophic consequences, both financially and for a company's reputation. This is where backups come into play – an essential component of every e-commerce company's IT strategy.

Effective software lifecycle management (SLM) plays a crucial role in the security of e-commerce platforms and online stores, as it ensures that security measures are considered at every stage of software development and maintenance.

Almost daily, you hear about new security breaches where sensitive data is stolen or misused. In this context, it is crucial that you understand the significance of patches and updates as indispensable tools for ensuring IT security.

Welcome to our blog series dedicated entirely to the topic of Cyber Security for your online shop. We understand that you're working hard to provide your customers with the best and safest shopping experience. But how secure is your online shop, really?

In an era marked by the exponential growth of online shopping, the significance of privacy compliance for e-commerce establishments cannot be overstated.

Shopware 5 expires in 2023! Version 5 of the open source shop system "Shopware", which has been in use for many years, was continuously provided with bug fixes until July 2023.

The reliable functionality of an online shop is indispensable for webshop operators. Especially the correct execution of cronjobs and scheduled tasks is essential to ensure smooth operation.

Anyone who runs an online shop and processes sensitive information such as personal customer data in it should give the topic of IT security a high priority. In this article we show how efficient patch and update management helps to minimise security risks in the application.

Deciding on a suitable hosting model is crucial for e-commerce traders. But which solution is the right choice? In this blog post, we compare the two hosting variants dedicated hosting and cloud computing based on scalability, security, control, data sovereignty and other factors.

The use of software in e-commerce is usually not limited to a shop system. In this article we reveal how technology management supports traders to be successful in the long term.

August 2024 – and with it the "end of life" of Shopware 5 – still seems a long way off. However, experience shows that the deadline comes sooner than expected. Co-initiator Carmen Bremen reports in an interview on how the community initiative safefive can support shop operators in terms of security after the EOL of Shopware 5.

E-mails are the most frequently used form of communication in e-commerce. In this article, we look at the SPF, DKIM and DMARC frameworks. We show how they can contribute to secure and authenticated emailing.

Changes to the Google algorithm, so-called core updates, can have positive and negative effects on the findability of online stores via the search engine. In this article we show what to consider in order to be well prepared.

The larger the online shop, the larger the number of integrated text and image files. This can have a negative impact on the shop's performance. The use of a content delivery network may offer a solution.

Hosting is one of the basic technologies of the internet and now has an incredible number of facets. In this article we give a basic overview of web hosting and take a closer look at the special features of e-commerce hosting.

2020 - what a year. The last few months have held special challenges in store for everyone. Managing directors Sebastian Ringel and Alexander Wilhelm report on what these were for maxcluster in an interview.

Since September 2019, the presentation of secure (encrypted) websites on most end devices has changed fundamentally. Are there still arguments in favor of expensive and elaborate Extended Validation (EV) certificates?

The security of their online shops should be a high priority for operators, in addition to customer orientation and usability. We have the vision to support our customers in this and to offer them the best performing and most secure eCommerce hosting in Germany.

DDoS attacks have increased in frequency and bandwidth volume. Even the coding platform GitHub was attacked and hit by the strongest DDoS attack ever measured. We protect our customers from DDoS attacks at the network level and use Voxility's service for this. We have summarised important information about this protection in the article.