Late this evening, a client called us and told us that, after moving his website to a new host, he was seeing the following (fatal) everywhere on his website: Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error Typically, the above error is associated with wrong database credentials in the configuration.php file, so we tried the […]

Yesterday, we were commissioned to move a large website (for a US clinic) from one server to another: we moved the files, we installed the database, we modified the configuration.php file to reflect the new server’s settings, we modified our Windows hosts file (to force the domain to point to the new IP), and then […]

Last week, we were commissioned to build a tool that displays a list of state representatives on the website of a company producing soda dispensers. The tool consisted of a simple dropdown, containing all the American states, and, based on the selected state from the dropdown, the tool displayed the representatives serving the selected state. […]

This evening, a new client from Florida approached us with what seemed to be a very easy issue: whenever he tried to login to the backend of his Joomla website with his super user (aka super administrator) account, he was seeing the following error: Login denied! Your account has either been blocked or you have […]

As discussed in a previous post, we have been experiencing an onslaught of Joomla 3.5.1 hacks for a few weeks now, and although we were able to clean and protect the hacked websites that we were asked to fix, we were not able to get to the root cause of the problem. We did, however, […]

As of late, we are getting an abnormal number of requests for malware cleanup on Joomla websites (a substantial number of these websites are infected with the Google hack). What’s even more interesting is not the sheer number of such requests, but the fact that the absolute majority of the affected Joomla websites were 3.5.1 […]