Who creates the site?

When creating any project, there is a minimum possible set of participants – this is a project manager and a programmer. The project manager communicates with the client, translates the requirements and wishes of the customer into technical tasks, creates a description of the project, plans the stages and manages the creation process. The programmer implements the project structure on the selected CMS/framework, creates the necessary menus and sections, content types, fields, forms, installs and creates the necessary modules for the project.

If the site needs an individual design, a designer and website layout designer are connected to the project. The designer creates several concepts for the project. The concept agreed with the customer is implemented in a design containing the main and internal pages of the project. The website layout designer takes the final agreed design from the designer and, on its basis, creates a theme for the site for the selected CMS or framework.

If the customer wants to fill the site with content, a content manager and a copywriter join the project. The copywriter writes all the texts and, together with the designer, selects suitable images. The content manager places the received texts and images on the site.

What makes up the price?

First of all, the price is affected by the number of specialists working on the project. The more people involved in the creation of the project, the more expensive and better the project comes out.

The second important factor is the number of standard hours of work of each specialist. The more complex the project structure, design or layout, the more time it takes to create it and the more expensive the project will be.

Also affects the price: programming language, database, CMS, framework. Specialists in different fields evaluate their knowledge and work differently.

What’s the difference?

Let’s say you decide to make an inexpensive business website. The minimum price in this case is the price for which the project manager and the programmer are ready to make this project. At the same time, we will discuss a site with several static pages, a news section, a template design with minimal edits and all the content from your side. The menu of such a site may look like this: home, about us, news, services, contacts.

If you need a specific CMS or programming language, then the price will vary. For example, a business site on the WordPress CMS will cost less than on the Drupal CMS, and when switching from PHP to ASP.NET, the project will become more expensive.

When adding complex pages (galleries, portfolios, order forms), content types (reviews, videos), blocks (sliders, recommended services or products), the number of programmer hours and, accordingly, the price will increase.

If you want to add an individual design for the project, the price of the project increases by the minimum amount for which this design is ready to be drawn by the designer and made up by the website layout designer. At the same time, an individual design is built around the basic theme-designer for the selected CMS. When creating a layout from scratch, the price tag increases again, as does the number of standard hours of the website layout designer.

Then, if you want to fill the site with content, the copywriter writes the texts, the content manager places the texts on the site. The cost of their services is added to the price of the project.

In total, it turns out that one corporate site can cost $1 000, and another $5 000. After all, a couple of people worked on one for several weeks, and the other was made by five people for a couple of months. Of course, the more time spent on the project, the more interesting opportunities can be realized.

How is the creation process organized?

We start discussing the project, find out all the details and features of the business, the history of company creation and previous projects on the Internet, analyze competitors and their solutions. The result of all this is a completed Brief – a document containing all the wishes and requirements for the project. Then we determine which solution is best suited, what specialists will be required and how long the implementation of the entire project will take. Based on this information, a preliminary estimate of the project is calculated, which is included in the commercial offer.

After agreeing on a preliminary estimate, a contract is concluded and payment is paid for the creation of a detailed document called Technical project, in which we describe in detail your project and all stages of its creation. Technical project is agreed with the customer and on its basis the initial estimate of the project is adjusted.

In the case of agreement with the new estimate and having received an advance payment for the project, a phased process of its creation begins. After each stage, an intermediate result is agreed upon, at which a decision is made – whether it is necessary to add/remove some elements regarding the initial Technical project.

After completion of development of the project, general testing and QA is carried out and, after full payment, the project is transferred to the customer and deployed to the production server.

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Since the beginning of 2018, mass mailings of spam through the contact forms of various CMS have become more frequent in Russia. Thematic forums are full of messages about spam, and foreign projects have also suffered from Russian mailing lists. It got to the point that many foreigners simply block any messages with Cyrillic, because now all popular “engines” are affected by this problem, such as PrestaShop, OpenCart, Bitrix, WordPress and WooCommerce, Drupal, etc.

The service for such mailings has proven to be very popular due to its low cost and high audience coverage. For example, spammers offer to send more than 600 000 messages through various stores for $100.

Of course, we strongly recommend not to use such dubious methods of advertising and promotion. Your site can be blocked in search engines, your hosting account can be deleted, or even the domain can be partitioned.

However, while there is demand for such services, spammers are actively modifying their mailing bots to bypass popular blocking methods. In some cases, vulnerabilities in the CMS core are already being used to send requests directly, bypassing the contact form altogether. Accordingly, in such a situation, any JavaScript checks (like Google Recapcha) do not work, unless additional checks have been built in on the server side.

In some engines (for example, in PrestaShop), by default, a copy of the sent email is sent to the client. Thus, spam is received not only by you, but also by real people (on whose behalf and postal address the form is sent), who most likely do not know about the existence of your store at all, and thereby significantly damage the reputation of your store.

We offer a comprehensive solution to the problem of spam through contact forms, which includes:

1. change default CMS settings when working with contact forms;
2. integration with the Google Recapcha service with server-side validation;
3. disable sending copies of emails to clients (if applicable);
4. prohibition to insert any links (including short and Cyrillic) in the text of the message;
5. generating a secret key and saving it in a cookie and checking whether the sent key matches the saved one;
6. adding an additional text field hidden from clients and checking that it is empty;
7. a number of additional checks for the request (availability of information about the browser and the page of the last transition, whether the request and the last page of the transition belong to the project domain).

This solution closes most of the problems with spam through the contact form. However, despite all the efforts made, getting around this is difficult, but still possible. For example, in the following ways:

• using advanced bot technologies on real equipment (PC, tablet, phone), that disguise themselves as a person, move the mouse, emulate screen taps and can solve Google Recapcha;
• using cheap labor, for example, through specialized services, to send a message by real people.

Moreover, in all cases of bypass, the message should be:

• with short links (without http, https or www) separated by spaces like “yandex . ru” and with instructions like “just remove the spaces”;
• or not using links at all, for example, write or call us.

Therefore, although we cannot guarantee a 100% result, we assure you that after the implementation of the proposed fixes, the amount of spam will definitely decrease by an order of magnitude. More often than not, contact form spam stops completely.

It is also worth reiterating that the proposed solution only addresses spam via contact forms. We recommend filtering all spam that goes to mailboxes published on the site by setting up spam filters on the mail server and then, by correctly flagging unwanted messages in the mailbox, gradually training the spam filter.

If you need help in the fight against spam – please contact us, we will offer an individual solution for your project!

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Projects on the Internet usually require a web server and a database server. A web server is a special program that processes requests from the visitor’s browser and redirects them to the project files. The database server is a program that processes requests to read or write structured project information to the database. Both programs are located on a computer called a server, which is constantly available on the Internet and supports the work with the project.

After the completion of work on the project, the question always arises – where to place it? Usually there is no talk of own servers, because this is quite an expensive pleasure, and it is only necessary for large, highly loaded projects. Therefore, the most popular option is to rent a server from a hosting company.

The process of uploading a finished project to a rented hosting looks like this:

1. the hosting company rents out its server (or part of it) and gives access to it (FTP, SSH, database server, control panel, etc.);
2. we upload project files to the server via FTP (or SSH) protocol;
3. we load the project database through the hosting control panel (or direct access to the database server);
4. hosting makes sure that visitors can connect to your project and work with it through a browser.

Hosting rental options

Let’s see what popular options there are for renting servers:

1. Virtual hosting (Shared hosting) is a type of hosting in which many projects are located on the same server on separate customer accounts. This is the most economical type of hosting, suitable for small and medium projects.
2. VPS (Virtual Private Server) or VDS (Virtual Dedicated Server) is a service within which the so-called “Virtual Dedicated Server” is provided to the user. For the most part, this solution corresponds to a physical dedicated server, but with a number of limitations in server resources, and in fact, several VPS/VDS client accounts are located on one physical server. Suitable for medium to large projects.
3. Cloud hosting (Cloud hosting) – the service is similar to VDS, with the only difference being that you can change the configuration of your dedicated server on the fly, thereby being a more flexible solution. Moreover, the virtual server is located on several physical servers, so it can have a more powerful configuration than even one top-end physical server. Suitable for medium to large projects.
4. Dedicated server – is the placement of one client account on one physical dedicated server. Suitable for large projects.

For any rental option other than shared hosting, you will either have to hire an administrator or sign a support contract (for example, with us), or pay on per hour basis for support from the hosting company (if any is available). Therefore, we recommend that small projects (websites and online stores) use shared hosting (and do it for as long as possible), since it includes technical support from the hosting company.

Comparison and choice of shared hosting

Shared hosting offers different pricing plans. They have a number of parameters by which they can be compared:

• quantitative limits (disk space size; monthly traffic; number of sites and domains that can be hosted; number of databases and space for databases, number of mailboxes; accounts with access, etc.) ;
• qualitative restrictions that affect server performance (available processor resources, RAM size, size and availability of memory for accelerators, etc.);
• server operating system (Windows, Linux, freeBSD);
• monthly cost.

Quite often, different hosting companies offer roughly the same pricing plans, making it difficult to choose based on price or restrictions. However, there are a number of more important factors for work, which hosters are sometimes silent about. Here’s what you should pay special attention to when choosing a hosting company:

• the ability to grow the project within the framework of hosting plans – it is important that you can increase the amount of resources provided, with an increase in project traffic and server loads;
• actual placement of servers, technical equipment of servers, processors and hard drives used, software used, as well as restrictions imposed by the selected tariff plan;
• availability of a free trial period to check the operation of the project at the selected tariff and hosting in general;
• the ability to contact the technical support service (online chat, phone, e-mail, etc.), as well as their working hours – it is important that hosting support worked 24/7 and be able to stay in touch in case of problems;
• opportunity to select programming language versions, as well as support for the languages ​​and databases required for the project;
• availability of daily backup of hosted projects files and databases;
• presence of spam protection, checks of hosted projects for viruses and recommendations for optimizing the project server load from the hosting side;
• the cost of renting and renewing domains – for many companies the cost of renewing a domain is several times higher than the cost of the initial lease;
• the availability of SSL certificates, as well as the cost of renting and renewing them — in connection with the massive transition of projects on the Internet to the HTTPS protocol, is now especially relevant;
• convenience of work in the control panel of the hoster and the availability of the necessary information (project logs, statistics of resources used, service management, etc.);
• large hosting clients, as well as reviews about hosting and technical support – keep in mind that now hosters themselves leave a lot of reviews (both to reduce the reputation of competitors and to raise their rating), so you should take reviews with a grain of salt.

We recommend SprintHost

There are no perfect hosting companies! Everyone has their own peculiarities in their work, sometimes delivering inconvenience and irritation. I would like to separately note that everyone has problems and you just need to put up with it, but much more important is how often problems appear, how the hosting company reacts and what it does.

We have many clients who use a variety of hosting, we ourselves have tried many hosting companies. We have been using it for more than 7 years and we recommend shared hosting from SprintHost to all our clients. Here are the main advantages of SprintHost hosting:

• three main tariff lines Vostok, Turbo Bitrix and Premium – great opportunities for project growth within shared hosting, as well as the possibility of further transition to a VPS or a dedicated server;
• hosting is based in the Miran-2 data center in St. Petersburg, the servers use Intel Xeon E3 / E5 series processors, only fast SAS/SSD hard drives, up to 1GB of dedicated RAM and the same amount for accelerators (depending on from the tariff), Linux OS (or Windows for dedicated servers), two web servers (fast nginx for static requests, and Apache for dynamic requests), unlimited traffic, and no restrictions on the number of domains, mailboxes or access accounts;
• free trial period for 15 days, with the allocation of a test domain for testing the project and hosting before payment;
• fast and competent 24/7 technical support available by phone, mail, web chat or hosting control panel;
• the ability to set the PHP version for each project individually (or for the entire account when using a personal web server) and support for other programming languages;
• daily backup of all files and databases that are kept for 30 days;
• automatic virus check, spam protection, free advice on project optimization from technical support;
• the cost of renting and renewing domains is the same (when renting hosting) – from 140 rubles. per year;
• free lifetime SSL certificate from the Let’s Encrypt project for working over HTTPS;
• a convenient control panel with resource usage statistics in the form of graphs, as well as the ability to change the tariff plan and connected services on the fly;
• among the hoster’s clients are such companies as: Business Fm, Ford, Ulmart, Glonass, Planet Fitness.

Most of our clients who use SprintHost services do not have problems with projects for months, i.e. uptime (time without failures) is 100% for sufficiently long time intervals. And even if problems still arise, then for more than 3 years there have not yet been pauses in service for more than four hours.

All this makes SprintHost an excellent and, most importantly, a proven choice that meets the modern requirements of various Internet projects from a business site to a large online store. Try a free trial and we’re sure you won’t be disappointed!

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What will your website be built on?

Specify the programming language, database, framework or CMS used. This is the most important point, because it depends on:

1. the cost of improvements (the cheapest option is developers with the most widespread knowledge, developers of paid CMS are more expensive, it is even more expensive to modify unknown CMS and “self-made” sites);
2. the quality of the site (there are “buggy” engines, for example, the use of CMS Made Simple as an online store);
3. site protection from hacking and virus infection (there are very “leaky” CMS, just look for information on the request for the name of the CMS + “vulnerabilities”);
4. search promotion capabilities (not all CMS are equally well promoted in search, some of them do not even provide the ability to edit meta tags and page titles);
5. the ability to change the project support contractor (not everyone will take on someone else’s project, especially poorly documented, written by no one knows who and how);
6. the ability to hire your own developer or an outsourcing specialist (difficulties in finding a specialist with the necessary knowledge and a desire to take on your project);
7. ease of support and updating (for example, popular CMS WordPress and Drupal allows you to update the site automatically).

Ready-made CMS or custom development?

If you are talking about creating a simple site on a CMS from a web studio of their own design, then we recommend that you immediately refuse such proposals. In this case, you will be tied exclusively to this studio, you will not be able to change the project support contractor, and possibly the promotion contractor. It also usually means the highest cost of modifications, with perhaps the lowest quality of execution.

With a high degree of probability – all this means redesigning the site in the future, but at a much higher cost, because you will have to transfer the existing content of the project to the new site structure.

Do not forget that no studio will exist forever. What will happen to its development then? Who will develop and support it?

The only exceptions are a number of cases where a unique development is really required. Like the development of high-load projects for the customer, where the use of CMS will create an unjustified extra load or when creating projects that require exceptional security measures and closed code (for example, in the banking sector). However, in such situations, it is worth considering using a popular framework.

Framework or custom development?

Large projects are usually written according to the individual requirements of the customer. Is it worth starting from scratch using a “pure” programming language, or you should take a ready-made structure (project framework)?

Among the advantages of using the framework are:

• significant acceleration of development (the basic elements are already there, tested and documented);
• detailed documentation and developed community (useful for solving typical tasks/problems);
• relatively low cost of support and improvement (it is easy enough to find a programmer with knowledge of the chosen framework);
• good level of protection (a huge number of people are involved in the process of testing and developing the framework).

Of the downsides of using the framework, it is worth mentioning:

• limits and restrictions introduced by the framework;
• loss of performance (especially when using “heavy” frameworks like Zend);
• open source framework (in case of developing projects requiring exceptional security measures).

As always, when choosing, a compromise should be sought between the cost, speed and quality of project development.

CMS paid or free?

Let’s get back to simple CMS projects. Which one to choose paid or free?

Paid CMS are attractive as ready-made kits from the box at an inexpensive starting price, aimed at a specific business. However, this is where all the positives usually end. Of the minuses of paid CMS, it is worth mentioning:

• monthly or annual license fees, and this can apply both to the entire site, and separately to each module of the site;
• more expensive support, because there are obviously fewer specialists with the necessary knowledge (due to the cost of a CMS license) compared to free counterparts;
• a low level of documentation and complexity in solving problems (usually paid CMS do not have or have a minimum number of participants in the community for discussing problems and documenting CMS features);
• sometimes it also means low quality paid CMS (the CMS is developed by an office with a small number of developers, a small number of users use the CMS, hence a large number of still hidden errors arise).

Are there any guarantees?

It would not be superfluous to ask – will there be a guarantee for the created project?

We guarantee the absence of software errors in all our developments within 12 months after full payment and launch of the project. This means that if an error occurs and it was present at the time the project was handed over to the customer (not due to code modifications or incorrectly installed updates), then it is fixed completely free of charge.

Will you have documentation?

Specify in advance – will the documentation for the created project be provided?

We provide user documentation for all our projects. The documentation describes the main functionality of the site and has everything you need for daily work with the site. Contact us and check for yourself!

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Database (DB)

One of the definitions of the term says that a database is a set of data organized in accordance with certain rules and maintained, characterizing the current state of a certain subject area and used to meet the information needs of users.

Simply put, a database contains structured data used in your project. All user accounts, orders, delivery addresses, products, categories, articles and news are stored in the database.

There are many different kinds of databases that are used in different situations. However, most often, when talking about a database, they mean not so much the database itself, but the database management system.

A database management system (DBMS) is a set of software and linguistic tools that manage the creation and use of databases. Those the DBMS is a kind of software implementation of the approach to storing, creating, modifying and deleting data in the database.

The most popular DBMS, according to the frequency of use in projects, are:

• mySQL (free, great for small to medium projects);
• PostgreSQL (free, good for projects of any size);
• Microsoft SQL Server (paid, suitable for medium and large projects);
• Oracle Database (paid, suitable for medium and large projects).

Content management system (CMS)

Content management system – an information system used to provide and organize a joint process of creating, editing and managing content (content).

In simpler terms, CMS is a system that allows you to edit the contents of a project online, without having to edit the program code. Using CMS, a simple user can change the content of site blocks, add news, articles and products, edit system messages, and much more.

Typically, a CMS is built around an internal framework that dictates features, rules, and limitations. Due to this, all modern CMS use a modular structure, allowing you to increase the functionality by installing additional modules.

A website created on the basis of a CMS usually consists of:

1. CMS itself;
2. a set of additional modules that implement the desired functionality;
3. site theme which is a site design template;
4. the site content itself.

The most popular CMS: WordPress, Drupal, PrestaShop.

Framework

The structure or framework of a software system that facilitates the development and integration of the different components of a large software project. Thus, the framework includes everything necessary for the development of a new project and is what is the basis, the starting point for a future software project.

We can also talk about a framework approach to building programs, where any system configuration is built from two parts: the first, constant part is a framework that does not change from configuration to configuration and carries nests that house the second, variable part – replaceable modules (or functional extension points).

When developing a project, the developer is faced with a number of routine tasks of the same type, for which, however, high-quality implementation is very important. For example, almost every project requires:

• database access and data management;
• routing requests between system components;
• form data validation;
• rendering typical HTML elements (tables, lists, forms, etc.);
• registration, user authorization and password recovery;
• export data to Excel;
• etc.

All this can be done from scratch or you can use a ready-made framework, which not only has this functionality in the form of libraries, but everything is grouped into a single structure that defines the boundaries and options for the interaction of all components.

Popular frameworks will be listed in the section below.

Programming language

A programming language is a formal sign system designed to write computer programs. A programming language defines a set of lexical, syntactic, and semantic rules that define the appearance of a program and the actions that a computer under its control will perform.

The easiest way to understand what a programming language is is by comparing it with foreign languages. Someone knows and writes in French, someone in English, someone in several at once. So it is with programming languages, depending on the language – there are rarely used, but there are very popular ones.

Of the popular languages ​​used in web programming, the following should be briefly mentioned.

PHP

PHP is an interpreted scripting programming language. In the field of web programming, PHP is by far one of the most common due to its simplicity, speed of execution and rich functionality. PHP is distributed freely and is supported by all hosting companies.

Probably the most popular PHP frameworks are Laravel, Yii, Symfony, Zend.

Ruby

Ruby is a high-level interpreted scripting language for fast and convenient object-oriented programming. Ruby has a large number of text processing tools for solving system problems. Ruby is a completely free programming language that can be copied, modified, and redistributed. Hosting for a project is more difficult to find than for PHP projects and may be a little more expensive.

The most popular framework is Ruby on Rails. Usually speaking about development in Ruby, they mean exactly the use of the Ruby on Rails framework.

C#

C# is an object-oriented programming language from Microsoft. It is designed to generate server code in ASP pages in Web applications within the Microsoft .NET platform.

The Microsoft .NET framework is a software platform for building various applications. In this case, not only C#, but also various other programming languages ​​can be used. For example, the main ones are J#, VB .NET, JScript .NET, C++/CLI, F#.

JavaScript

JavaScript is a programming language from Netscape that is an implementation of the ECMAScript standard. Microsoft has released similar versions of the language called JScript, so JavaScript is often used to refer to any version of the language, including Microsoft JScript.

In most cases, when JavaScript is mentioned, it refers to the so-called client-side JavaScript, the interpreter of which is built into Web browsers. However, JavaScript was originally designed as a general-purpose programming language for embedding and scripting in any application.

Recently, more and more programmers are using jQuery instead of pure JavaScript. jQuery is a JavaScript library that focuses on the interaction between JavaScript and HTML. The jQuery library makes it easy to access any page element (DOM), access and manipulate the attributes and content of DOM elements.

HTML

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language for documents on the Internet. Most web pages contain descriptions of the markup in HTML. The HTML language is interpreted by browsers and rendered as a document in a human-readable form.

There are many versions of this HTML markup language: 2.0, 3.2, 4.0, 4.01, 5, 5.1. Various new features appear from version to version. At the same time, it should be understood that a site written under HTML 5 standards requires appropriate support for the standard from the browser. In browsers without HTML 5 support (old versions), such a site will not work or will work with errors.

CSS

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets, cascading style sheets) is a formal language for describing the appearance of a document written using a markup language.

It is mainly used as a means of describing, designing the appearance of web pages written using HTML markup languages.

As in the case of HTML, there are several versions of CSS: 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 4.0. Also, the larger the version, the more features, but support from the client browser is required. CSS3, for example, allows you to create animations on websites without the use of other technologies such as JavaScript or Flash.

Popular set of tools for building websites and web applications is Twitter Bootstrap. It includes HTML and CSS design templates for typography, web forms, buttons, labels, navigation blocks and other web interface components, including JavaScript extensions. In fact, this is a kind of HTML and CSS framework for creating website design templates.

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From July 1, 2017, the Coordination Center for the national Internet domain increases the cost of domain names in the .RU and .РФ zones by 70% for accredited registrars. This will lead to a change in retail rates for registration and renewal of domains with the registrants themselves, as well as price increases will affect special rates for registrar partner companies.

Our partner SprintHost has already announced that it will be forced to cancel the current promotion “Domains for 98 rubles” from July 1, 2017 , as well as to revise the bonus policy (having canceled the permanent promotion “Domain as a gift, when paying for hosting for a year”).

Therefore, if you were planning to purchase a domain or hosting for a long time, we recommend that you do this before June 30 inclusive.

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By law, the seller of the goods/service or his agent (for example, a courier service or a retail outlet) must issue a check. Payment systems and aggregators are neither sellers nor agents, therefore it is the seller who must send an electronic check to the buyer and transfer a copy of it to the tax office.

If you are already using a cash register (for example, for pickup sales), then you will need to switch to using a new technique. Some cash registers can be upgraded (by replacing the ECLZ module with a new type of fiscal drive), but if upgrade is not possible, then you will need to select and buy a new cash register.

If you do not yet have a cash register and you only accept payments on the Internet, through payment systems or aggregators, then you will also have to buy and use a cash register with a fiscal drive to transfer data to the Federal Tax Service. When choosing a suitable solution, you should pay attention to whether it is “friendly” with your site’s CMS, as well as with a payment system or aggregator.

An upgraded or new device with a fiscal drive will need to be registered in your personal account on the tax website (this requires a qualified electronic signature, which can be obtained at a certification center). When registering a cash register, indicate not only the physical address of its use, but also the address of your website – then online payments can be taken into account in the tax using the same device.

Data from the CREs to the tax office is transferred by a separate organization – the operator of fiscal data (OFD), a license is required for this activity. By July 1, you will need to conclude an agreement with one of the OFDs to transfer data from your cash register to the tax office. A list of all licensed OFDs is on the tax website, each OFD legally supports work with all CREs, so you can choose anyone.

If you need help in integrating your project with the new CREs, please contact us, we will help!

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• if you do not post a privacy policy on the site, individual entrepreneurs can be fined 10 000 rubles, and the company – 30 000 rubles;
• if you process personal data without the consent of the client of the online store or the subscriber to the newsletter, then the fine for a legal entity will be up to 75 000 rubles, and the individual entrepreneur will have to pay up to 20 000 rubles;
• if there are several violations, then there will be several fines.

Prior to this, only the prosecutor’s office could issue protocols on violations. The procedure took a long time, and the fines were small, so they rarely checked and not everyone. From July 1, Roskomnadzor will issue protocols, fines will increase, and the number of those fined, most likely, will also grow. For example, in Astrakhan, prosecutors are already penalizing website owners for feedback forms by company name in alphabetical order.

Personal data is any data about a person by which he can be identified (name and phone number, name and email address, etc.). The law does not contain a list of such data, so you have to guess which data is considered personal. For example, recently Roskomnadzor in Tambov issued a fine to a company for violating the law on personal data due to a feedback form on the site (with the fields name, subject and text of the message, and the name was an optional field), and this decision could not be challenged in court.

Most likely, you are a personal data operator if you somehow receive such information from any people in any combination: full name, address, email, phone number, date or place of birth, photo, link to a personal website or social networks, profession, education.

All this means that all owners of sites that have personal accounts, feedback forms, subscriptions or registrations, where you can buy something, place an ad, fill out a questionnaire, are personal data operators. Even if the site has only a button for ordering a call or sending a message, this is already the processing of personal data.

We recommend that you prepare public documents and place them on the site so that they are available on all pages (for example, in the footer of the site). In a good way, it should be two pages:

1. “User Agreement” – an agreement with users describing the terms of use of the site and various services of the company;
2. “Privacy Policy” – the conditions, as well as the purposes of collecting and storing personal data.

However, you can limit yourself to at least the last document.

You can find and view similar documents on the websites of various large companies, and also take them as a guide, but the content (collected data and purpose of use) must be specified as your own, because requesting unnecessary data is also a violation of the law and a reason for a fine.

Then, on all data collection forms, implement a solution that clearly establishes that the person has consented to the processing of personal data. It can be either a checkmark in the form or a text warning that by submitting this form, he agrees with the documents posted on the site.

Keep in mind that in addition to fines for violating the rules for processing personal data, the law provides for the possibility of recovering compensation for moral damage and even criminal liability.

If you need help in bringing the site in line with the law – contact us, we will help!

Сообщение Fines for non-compliance with the law on personal data will increase significantly появились сначала на Эйфория.

It’s one thing if you have only one domain, but many of our clients, for the convenience of their visitors, register dozens of similar domains and redirect to the main one. In this case, simply for the possession of these domains, you will have to pay a tangible amount.

Along the way, the changes also affected the prices for renting SSL certificates. Major domain registrars have always only had paid certificate options available. Now, on the wave of overwhelming transition to HTTPS, their prices have increased significantly.

Previously, we were very skeptical about registering a domain directly with a registrar: inconvenient control panels, slow and lazy technical support, paid SSL certificates. Now we don’t see any point in it at all.

We recommend considering the option of transferring your domains to registrar partners – medium and large hosting companies. They work with the registrar on special agreements that provide significant discounts on domain rental services. Therefore, the service of registering and renewing domains with them earlier, and especially now, is cheaper. For example, our partner SprintHost registers and renews domains in the .ru and .rf zones for only 140 rubles (when using their hosting).

If you need help transferring your domain or website, please contact us, we will help!

Сообщение The cost of renting a domain has increased by an order of magnitude появились сначала на Эйфория.

HTTPS is an extension of the HTTP protocol to support encryption for improved security. Data in HTTPS is transmitted over the cryptographic protocols SSL or TLS. Encryption of connections is considered a necessary measure to reduce the risk of modification or theft of user data by intruders. Thanks to HTTPS, data is protected from third parties, and the user can be sure that he has entered the real site, and not a copy.

Passwords and bank card data transmitted over the Internet are the most interesting “prey” for intruders. Therefore, now when entering sensitive data into forms on sites that work via HTTP, users will receive a message that their actions are not safe.

Also, as part of the campaign to protect the Internet, Google already notifies mobile users (and will soon notify users using PCs) when they navigate to insecure sites (without encryption) in their search results. All these actions will soon lead to the fact that either sites will start using the HTTPS protocol by installing SSL/TLS certificates, or they will begin to lose traffic and audience.

In order not to lose visitors and sales, we recommend that you plan to move your site to HTTPS now. Check with your hosting company’s website to see what options they have for SSL/TLS certificates. For example, our partner SprintHost has an option to install a free lifetime TLS certificate from the Let’s Encrypt project.

The Let’s Encrypt project was created to ensure that the majority of Internet sites can migrate to encrypted HTTPS connections. Unlike commercial certificate authorities, this project does not require payment, reconfiguration of web servers, the use of email, or the processing of expired certificates, which makes the process of installing and configuring TLS encryption much simpler. The sponsors of the project include Google and Mozilla, so you can be sure that the certificates will not lose trust, as recently happened with certificates from WoSign and StartCom.

If you need help choosing an SSL/TLS certificate and transferring your project to HTTPS, please contact us, we will help!

Сообщение Encrypt or die появились сначала на Эйфория.