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Whitelist A Sender Domain in Gmail

Clients using the Ezmlm mailing list software provided with their hosting, may experience problems with subscribers to the mailing list getting purged off the list if mail to them is bouncing. Gmail is a common culprit which sometimes bounces back valid emails. Generally speaking recipients should whitelist the domain that their list emails come from. […]

2025 Donations

Each year we donate a portion of our profits to charity, and contribute to OpenSource projects and freeware! This year we donated to the following organizations doing important work in Canada: And contributed to these projects that we find helpful, or benefit us day-to-day:

2024 Donations

Each year we donate a portion of our profits to charity, and contribute to OpenSource projects and freeware! This year we donated to the following organizations doing important work in Canada: And contributed to these projects that we find helpful, or benefit us day-to-day:

Price Changes as of Sept 2024

It’s been nearly 10 years since we’ve increased our rates (and over 12 years for our hosting prices!), but pressures on prices caused by inflation and recent increases from our suppliers have finally caught up with us. This year some broad increases in our expenses have necessitated a modest increase for Avinus services. Our hosting […]

Online Scams Targeting Website Owners

Owning a business or personal website, as most of our clients do, will open people to a large variety of scams, beyond your typical phishing scams and spam emails. In this article, we describe some common scams targeting website owners that we and our clients have encountered. Common Phishing And Spam Awareness is starting to […]

New: Stripe And Paypal Integration

For years we’ve been helping clients integrate PayPal into their website to accept payments and donations. Recently we’ve added Stripe to our toolkit. We can seamlessly integrate the Stripe API for payments that happen within your website but keep private credit card information securely with Stripe. Need to add ticket sales, invoice payments or products […]

2023 OSS Contributions

This year we decided to donate to two projects we make almost daily use of, but don’t always think of as free and open source because they are such ubiquitous office software. We donated to the Gimp image editor and to LibreOffice the free suite of office tools. We’ve used both of these for many years and they’re an […]

2023 Donations: Trees From Techies

This year we’re launching a fundraiser called Trees From Techies along with Hackforge Windsor to raise funds through One Tree Planted. Join us and donate to our fundraiser here: forest-fundraiser.raisely.com/treesfromtechies In light of the recent wildfires across Canada, Avinus Web Services and Windsor Hackforge are partnering to raise $1000 to support the replanting of native trees. We’re running this initiative through […]

New: Web Maps

We build custom, dynamic and interactive maps with your geospatial data to communicate with your clients, teams and/or the public in a uniquely clear and visual way. Share data from your existing process pipelines and/or publish information that is better communicated in a geographic context. >> Learn More

2022 Donations

Each year we donate a portion of our profits to charity, and contribute to opensource projects and freeware! Our donations for 2022 were to the Red Cross Ukraine Humanitarian Aid fund to help Ukrainian people affected by the international conflict. We also made a donation to Let’s Encrypt, the non-profit which provides free TLS certificates which we use […]