Do you want to hear a secret? It is not often that well engineered solutions have their hardware stressed. There are however also situations where, no matter how well you have planned your traffic goes through the roof. At which point people start running around with their hands in the air trying to find solutions… Keep Reading
This is an article about the application and capabilities of the virtual platform we offer, our first true ‘Cloud’ platform. The platforms we offer can be generalized into three families: – Shared; – Virtual; – Dedicated. … and sure, this is an exceptionally broad brush I am using. To start this story – you need… Keep Reading
The rules, they are changing… It happens. We change our addresses, our email addresses, our phone numbers – and from time to time we will find ourselves locked out of something or other. You find yourself between a rock and a hard place, looking for a means to validate who you are using details that… Keep Reading
All too often we take this protocol for granted. Sure signposts in a field works just fine – but it pays to understand a little more about what is going on here. A colleague (Alex) saw this on Imgur (alas without credit… and now without all the comments) – and it seemed far, FAR too… Keep Reading
Contrary to popular belief – the internet is not magic. It’s okay to think of it as a series of black boxes – with a given input and a given output – but there are services and connections that layer up into what you see as the end user. For want of a better word… Keep Reading
Spam gets through. It is a fact of life. We are no exception. If anything we are more of a target than yourselves, as be it Salesmen, Accountants, Network or Systems Engineers – they are likely to have access to some resources that would be both ‘interesting’ and ‘fun’ to your average, and your not-so-average… Keep Reading
Following up on my earlier article about deployment of LET’S ENCRYPT within Linux Plesk and cPanel, and with an angle towards Encryption Everywhere or at the very least by default… did you know there were free S/MIME certificates out there for non business use? Well there are! Major brands (such as COMODO) provide these to… Keep Reading
For non for profits that are using either Linux Virtual Machine / Virtual Private Servers, or Dedicated Servers with Hosting UK you may be interested in this release that came out from Cloud Linux in the last few days. “In light of the recent Dirty Cow exploit, said by experts to be the “Most serious”… Keep Reading
For those users using cPanel on their VPS or dedicated servers – there has been an advisory released regarding EasyApache3 and PHP – specifically the GD module. If you are using EasyApache4 then the RPM’s will have happily downloaded and upgraded without your intervention (unless you have set it to otherwise). This is a live… Keep Reading
I was sent this article over today by a colleague – and thought it was well worth sharing here. So – you use two factor authentication, you use long passwords, high entropy you … well you know what think again – social engineering is very much alive and well – someone to let them in… Keep Reading
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