by Reeshma Mathews | Aug 31, 2016 | cPanel, DirectAdmin
Managing and troubleshooting mail servers forms a vital part of the Outsourced Website Support services we provide to shared server owners. Among the common mail server errors, 421 is a common one that happens due to ‘too many concurrent SMTP connections’....
by Reeshma Mathews | Aug 29, 2016 | Docker, Server Management
Maintaining adequate disk space is a crucial task we perform in our outsourced server management services. Lack of free space can often lead to server crashes. In Docker machines, ‘/var/lib/docker’ is the directory where the Docker images and the container...
by Reeshma Mathews | Aug 27, 2016 | Server Management, VPN
In our previous post, we saw how to secure your OpenSSL servers from SWEET32 Birthday Attack. But OpenSSL isn’t the only server that’s affected by this bug. Use of block cipher encryption algorithm makes OpenVPN servers also vulnerable to this attack. The...
by Reeshma Mathews | Aug 26, 2016 | Apache, Nginx, Server Management
Over 80% of websites on the internet are vulnerable to hacks and attacks. In our role as hosting support engineers for web hosts, we perform periodic security scans and updates in servers to protect them from hacks. A recent bug that affects the servers is...
by Reeshma Mathews | Aug 25, 2016 | cPanel, Technical Support
Secure transmission of data requires encrypting the data in many ways. Ciphers are the tools used for data encryption. RC4 is one such cipher. RC4 generates a stream of pseudo-random bits. These bits are combined with plain text using ‘bit-wise...
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