If you haven't updated your domain DNS settings in the last year, to match the information in your control panel, you MUST to take action before January 15, 2019 or else your website will stop working when we deactivate an old deprecated server that you may be using. Last April we enabled free SSL for all websites, which required updates to your DNS settings (where your domain points). There are many wonderful benefits of SSL (security, speed, SEO, etc), but because you may have been busy (or intimidated by technical changes), you may not ...

The internet is a lot like the wildwest—it operates on trust with very little oversight and no policing, everyone has to look out for themselves. Which makes it very easy for bad actors to anonymously disrupt a website if they want to. One of the most common and difficult types of attacks to respond to is a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service). This type of attack isn't necessarily a security vulnerability, but it does cause a "Denial of Service" when so much traffic comes to your web server that it is not able to serve real visitors. And the ...

We have great news for all our Realtor Clients in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Due to historic MLS rules, only brokers were allowed receive the live MLS feed for San Francisco property data. But we have now been given approval to offer this feed to all agents who are members of SFARMLS. So if you've been wanting to allow your visitors to include San Francisco homes in their MLS search on your site, you now have the opportunity! Approval is easy for all SFARMLS members. Just send us a support email requesting this and we'll get you ...

You may notice that a new Cookie Consent notice appears at the top of your site today. This is a new requirement for compliance with GDPR, and we've added it to try to help your site be compliant. As of May 25, 2018, websites that process Personally Identifying Information of European residents, need to be compliant with the new GDPR rules (General Data Protection Regulation). There is still a lot of confusion (and hysteria) around the exact scope of this law. But over the coming weeks and months we will likely see the European Union audit ...

We are very pleased to share news about the growth of Gutensite.   More Agents - Some of you who have recently called into our Website Support line may have noticed a new voice on the other end.  That voice belongs to Mary, who joined the team just over a month ago. We are happy to have another team member who is obsessed with providing you with expert and proactive customer service. Quick Response Goal - We promised a 24-hour return response time for regular email support tickets.  This is pretty standard for our industry, but we ...

We are extremely excited to be nearing the end of a major Gutensite platform rebuild which will offer a completely new design, workflow and modern framework. This ambitious work on the 2.0 platform has taken all of our attention for the last 2 years. We will be sharing more information about 2.0 really soon, but in the meantime, one benefit of this development is going to be available for all our clients on the current 1.0 platform as well. So the good news is that we have just finished our new system for automatically providing free SSL ...

Some time ago, Google had updated it's reCaptcha spam filtering plugin to be more user-friendly, labeling it as V2. In case you're not familiar with it, reCaptcha is a powerful tool that has been used on most Gutensite forms and contact pages to prevent robots from obnoxiously sending spam emails out to you. Effective February 28th, 2018 the original reCaptcha V1 spam filter has been deprecated and can no longer be used. What this means for you is that if you have not made use of and added the new reCaptcha to your website yet, you'll find ...