Google’s mobile-first indexing shift has been years in the making, but the endgame is here: after July 5, 2024, sites that fail to deliver on mobile devices will get cut from Google’s index. Here’s the technical lowdown to future-proof your .NET applications.
The key takeaway is that mobile accessibility has graduated from best practice to absolute necessity. If your site can’t render or load on mobile, it’s effectively offline as far as Google’s concerned. This isn’t about abandoning desktop-centric designs – as long as that desktop experience gracefully translates to mobile, you’re in the clear.
For most modern sites, this change is a non-event. But if you’re maintaining a legacy site that doesn’t load on mobile (try loading it in your phone’s browser!), it’s time for some technical triage. Your mission is to ensure mobile accessibility.
One important caveat: Google will continue deploying the Googlebot Desktop crawler for product listings and Google for Jobs. So if you develop e-commerce solutions or job boards, expect to still see Googlebot Desktop in your server logs and adjust your user agent detection accordingly.
Google has set a hard deadline: mobile accessibility is now mandatory for indexing. Ensure your sites deliver a usable mobile experience. With proactive technical preparation, you can safeguard your sites’ search engine visibility.
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Here’s an end of the year present for you .NET developers!
Microsoft released .NET 8 last month. While it was always possible to deploy .NET 8 applications to our cloud hosting environment using Self-Contained Deployment (SCD), we now have .NET 8 (ASP.NET Core 8) installed on our cloud hosting servers. This means that customers can use Framework-Dependent Deployment (FDD) and Visual Studio 2022 to deploy their .NET 8 (ASP.NET Core 8) applications.
Happy Coding!
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We’ve been seeing a rise in the number of hacking incidents with our customer’s control panels. To help secure Control Panel access, Everleap now supports Two-Factor Authentication access to the Control Panel using Authentication Apps, like Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator.
At the same time we launch Authentication App support for 2FA Control Panel access, we will be restricting the existing Phone Text Message authentication to USA- and Canada-based phone numbers only. We are finding that each country has different and evolving rules and wildly varying costs that is making support for all international phone numbers difficult and resource consuming.
In general, we recommend using Authentication Apps for 2FA access.
Check out our knowledge base article to learn how to enable 2FA and secure your control panel login, today!
Stay Safe!
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For those developers who have been looking for an alternative hosting solution to the giant Public Cloud Hosting Providers because you are fed up with the unpredictable hosting costs and the “never-there” support, then you’ve come to the right spot.
Let me explain and get to the point.
In tech, we can’t know everything. When given the task of setting up one of your clients on AWS or Azure, you may encounter some learning curves that you probably would rather not deal with. We understand your frustration and we are here to help you. Let me tell you about some of the advantages Managed Hosting Solutions with Everleap provides for the .NET Developer.
We often field questions about the differences between our Everleap Managed Hosting service and Public Cloud platforms. To address this topic, we previously published an article about the differences between Everleap Managed Hosting and Azure.
In this post, we will examine differences between Everleap Managed Hosting and Amazon AWS.
As a .NET Web Developer, your clients will need their applications hosted somewhere. Many developers and clients may choose to use a Public Cloud offered by the giant companies like Microsoft and Amazon. However, you may want to check out Everleap’s Managed Hosting solution too, as we offer many benefits that will help your .NET development business.
Choice Overload
One of the most confusing things a .NET Developer faces is the magnitude of different options available on Public Cloud hosting environments. You have so many options you don’t know where to start – it can truly be choice overload. How do you know that the setup you are configuring for your client is the correct and best setup for their requirements? In short, in the best of worlds, you really only want to worry about the .NET application and not have to worry about the server it’s on.
Security
You may or may not be a security expert, but you are right to be concerned about how to secure the hosting system for your client. It would be so much easier if you had some knowledgeable expert available to help you, that you didn’t have to pay a lot for.
Monitoring
In addition, your client would love for you to monitor their application 24/7, but who has the time and resources for that? How would you even monitor the application? It would be great to be able to proactively let your client know of some issue and how you will resolve it, rather than having the client contact you when they notice something is wrong.
In this post, I will highlight the benefits of our Managed Hosting solutions that help the .NET Developer’s business, especially addressing the issues that I brought up above.
In 2022, the EU and US reached an agreement on a new EU-US Data Privacy Framework to replace the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, which was struck down by an EU court some time ago. On July 17th, 2023, the US Department of Commerce announced the launch of the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) program and website.
Everleap has attained the EU-US Data Privacy Framework certification along with the UK Extension and the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework Certification. We worked with our privacy management solutions partner, TRUSTe (part of TrustArc) to verify our practices against the Framework principles.
For more information about the Data Privacy Framework program, you can visit dataprivacyframework.gov. We have updated our Privacy Policy and it is posted online here.
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