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 30, 2016 | Server Administration
On 29th May, we were alerted to a new ImageMagick vulnerability(NOT ImageTragick which we covered earlier) that allows arbitrary code execution on web hosting servers running Apache, Nginx or others as long as ImageMagick binary “convert” is accessible to...
by Visakh S | May 5, 2016 | cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, Server Administration
On May 3rd, ImageMagick disclosed a serious Remote Code Execution vulnerablity (CVE-2016–3714) that allows attackers to execute malware hidden in image uploads. ImageMagick is widely used to process images, and is a part of PHP, Ruby, Node.Js, Python and many other...
by Visakh S | Apr 13, 2016 | Server Administration
Containers are taking over the world. From VPSs to application hosting, more and more companies now use container technologies such as Docker, LXC and OpenVZ. The latest entrant to this list is rkt, pronounced as rocket. What is Rocket (rkt)? rkt is a container system...
by Visakh S | Apr 10, 2016 | Server Administration
Setting up a server can be time consuming. It involves installing an operating system, setting up networking, configuring various services and securing can take up to 2 hours per server. But what if you can deploy servers in a few mins? That’s what you can do...
