Port Forwarding for Minecraft: Why is It Important?

Learn how to optimize your connection and reduce lag in Minecraft with port forwarding. Follow these simple steps to improve your child’s gaming experience.

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Get Instant Tech Solutions with No-IP’s Top 5 Most Popular Knowledge Base Guides

No-IP’s extensive Knowledge Base includes guides for everything from configuring DDNS settings to troubleshooting device connection issues, making it easy to get the information you need to manage your IP networks successfully.

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You Shall Not Pass! General Tips and Tricks to Password Creation and Safety

How often have we created a new username and password on the fly? Creating credentials is a standard part of our daily lives as we download more apps, subscribe to more platforms, and open new accounts. There are common practices that people follow when creating a new password. For example, make it easy to remember

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Authoritative DNS Servers vs. Recursive DNS Servers

If you aren’t sure what DNS is, you must start at the beginning.

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5 Tips to Keep Your Personal Information and Data Safe on the Internet

Just a few short years ago, when you asked a person what the cloud was, chances are pretty high that they would look at your like you were crazy and point to the sky. Now, most people know what the cloud is, but not necessarily how it works or how secure it is. People just know

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Losing a Domain: What it Means for Your Company and Users

Last week, a router manufacturer lost access to two of its customer-facing domains. They use these domains to give their customers access to their router configurations. The reason for the loss was a simple oversight; the company did not remember to renew their domain names in time. When they realized the error, it was already

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5 Reasons Every Small Business Needs Server Monitoring

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Every 5 years, 20 percent of all small businesses experience unexpected downtime. This downtime often causes major damage, resulting in permanent closures for 25 percent of businesses who have a significant incident. Businesses, especially those without huge IT teams and millions of dollars in revenue, can’t afford to experience unexpected downtime. Not only does it cost them time

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30 Things You Can do While Waiting for a Record to Update

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One minute may not seem like a lot of time, unless of course you have ever run on a treadmill. However, that is as long as it takes to update a record on the No-IP server. An update is any change made to a hostname or domain name which can include, setting a new TXT record

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How I Went to Mexico Without My Dogs and Didn’t Freak Out!

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Last week I spent five days in sunny Cancun, Mexico. My husband and I took the trip as a late honeymoon and we have never traveled together out of the country. We were excited but also nervous because, like many of you, we own dogs.  We actually have three dogs and no kids, so obviously

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A Beginner’s Guide to SSL Certificates

When it comes to your company’s website, security is king. You want to make your users feel safe when entering in personal data on your website. This is especially true for company’s that sell products and services like Amazon, but also for other sites that require accounts to be created like Facebook or Twitter. The easiest

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