by Visakh S | Jul 1, 2016 | cPanel, DDoS, FTP, Server Administration, Server Management
A locked gate is an obstacle, but a skilled attacker can easily defeat it. Now, what if this gate has 10 different kinds of locks, is rigged with an alarm, and leads to a mine field? Yeah, that would dissuade a vast majority of attackers. This approach to security 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 11, 2016 | Magento, Server Management
Magento is popular. It is second only to WooCommerce in the number of active installs, and that number keeps growing. This popularity has in turn led to a huge demand for specialized Magento Hosting Services. Customers now expect Magento Hosting companies to take care...
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 | Jun 1, 2016 | cPanel, Technical Support
Google blacklists about 8,000 to 11,000 websites per day for hosting malware or phishing contents. Of these, up to 98% are classified as “compromised” websites – which means, these sites belong to legitimate businesses, but were infected with...
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 Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 27, 2016 | cPanel, Plesk, Technical Support
From spam filtering to web analytics, an average website uses scores of hosting features for day-to-day operations. All leading control panels deliver most of these features, but each differ in usability, maintainability, security, and more. For eg., both cPanel/WHM...
by Visakh S | May 19, 2016 | LXC/LXD, Technical Support, WordPress
WordPress hosting is hot, and if Google Trends is anything to go by, it’s only getting hotter with each passing day. Most web hosting providers now offer specialized WordPress hosting packages, and some even focus exclusively on WordPress hosting. Perils of...
by Visakh S | May 7, 2016 | cPanel
A modern control panel such as cPanel/WHM includes hundreds of features useful for webmasters. But no webmaster uses all of those tools, and it is safe to say no web host uses all of the features in the panel. Also, it is known that cPanel does not offer many software...
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...
