by Visakh S | Oct 1, 2018 | Apache, Server Administration
Payment gateways such as Stripe and Authorize.net handle billions of dollars worth of business per month. That is why payment gateways and shopping carts are juicy targets for hackers to steal Credit Card info, User identity, etc. As a defense, Payment Gateways...
by Visakh S | Sep 22, 2018 | cPanel, Server Administration
Spam! We all hate it. And that is why people have invented a gazillion ways to fight it. Anti-spam systems range from SPF & RFC checks to Sender verification & Mail queue cleaners. Every hosting company provides almost all of these tools to fight spam through...
by Visakh S | Sep 19, 2018 | Apache, Server Administration
Apache’s CGI mode allows webmaster’s to reduce memory usage. It is the preferred way to run many low traffic websites. But the CGI mode is pretty sensitive to things such as permissions and file encoding, that leads to 500 Internal Server Error. In our...
by Veena Venugopal | Sep 12, 2018 | Server Administration
Almost every PHP application relies on mail functions to send contact requests, newsletters, and more. The most secure way to send these mails is to use SMTP authentication – that is, the PHP app uses a username and password to transfer mails to an SMTP server....
by Visakh S | Sep 10, 2018 | Server Administration
Managing a website can be hard. To keep your site business ready, you need to routinely optimize the databases, replace bulky plugins, renew SSL certificates, upgrade software, optimize pages for SEO, and more. That’s quite a lot of work, considering you still...
by Visakh S | Sep 8, 2018 | Server Administration
Here at Bobcares.com, we provide Outsourced Tech Support to web hosting providers. As part of our service, we resolve website errors posted by hosting users. A common error we’ve seen in PHP applications is: Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to...