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 Visakh S | Jun 16, 2016 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, FTP, MySQL, Nginx, Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support, WordPress, WordPress Hosting
Where do people host their WordPress sites? If Google Trends is anything to go by, more and more webmasters now prefer cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). It’s fueled by the popular notion that everything in cloud is super easy – one-touch...
by Visakh S | Jun 9, 2016 | DDoS, Docker, Nginx, Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support, VMware, WordPress, WordPress Hosting
WordPress now powers 42% of the web, and continues to add 52,000 new sites to its account every day. This huge popularity has given rise to a thriving industry that includes website designing, custom development, and specialized WordPress hosting. As per a Google...
by Visakh S | May 4, 2016 | Apache, Nginx, Server Management
Early today (3rd May 2016), OpenSSL released patches for two high severity bugs, and 4 low severity ones. The first bug, CVE-2016-2108 is a Memory corruption vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to crash a service or even execute malicious code. The second...
by Visakh S | Mar 3, 2016 | Apache, Nginx, Server Management
On March 1, 2016, a new SSL vulnerability called DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened Encryption) was disclosed by security researchers. This vulnerability (aka CVE-2016-0800) allows attackers to decrypt even strong TLSv1.2 connections, if the server...
by Visakh S | Jan 23, 2016 | Nginx, Server Management
On 24th Sep, 2015, ARIN (IP registry for North America) announced that there were no more free IPv4 addresses. It meant that the already scarce IPv4 addresses became even more difficult to obtain. This prompted many web hosts and website developers to look at...
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