Imagine an internet with literal freedom of content where governments can never take any content off the internet or ban any website. Well, that’s exactly what the IPFS protocol promises. IPFS utilizes a decentralized file-sharing system that uses peer-to-peer networks instead of relying on a centralized network like the HTTP protocol. But before we explain […]
HTTP and HTTPS, the literal building blocks of today’s internet. HTTP and HTTPS are responsible for powering each and every website that you visit through the internet, yet a lot of people don’t know what exactly are they, what they do and how they work, and that’s what we are going to explain through this […]
Service names and port numbers are utilized to differentiate between services used over transport protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP and SCTP. The organization responsible for assigning the name and port number of the services is called Internet Assigned Numbers Authority or IANA for short who also maintains the registries where service names and port numbers […]
Web cookies are usually compact text files, given ID tags that are saved on your computer’s browser directory or program information subfolders. Cookies are made when you use your browser to visit a website that uses cookies to keep track of your moves within the website, enable you to restart where you left off, remember […]
In computer networking, a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) is an attack in which the attacker seeks to render a specific system or network resource temporarily or permanently unavailable to its victims. Distributed denial of service attacks are performed by attackers that control multiple victim systems. Unlike traditional types of Internet attacks, where an IP address […]
You may have heard the term “brute force” when looking for information on hacking, but you may not understand what it means. It’s a common term that is often used in the security world. Basically, the attacker submits many passwords either through a dictionary(password list) or auto-generated passphrases until the computer guesses the correct combination, […]
As we mentioned before in the DNS explained article, the domain name system is what makes up the internet as we know it. The domain name system translates the human-friendly URLs that we can read, write, and memorize into IP addresses that connect to websites that we use. If you plan to run your own […]
Google FLoC beta: Google announced that they launched the beta of Google FloC and that around 5% of Chrome’s users will be included in this experiment. For those of you who don’t know FloC is short for Federated learning of cohorts and is Google’s alternative for third-party cookies. Instead of letting third-party cookies track you […]
The Domain Name System or DNS as it is more commonly known is undoubtedly one of the most important and underrated parts of the internet. Without DNS, the internet as we know it today will simply cease to exist. Most of us know that the internet is made of large groups of servers connected to […]
Have you ever wondered what website defacement is and how to prevent it? If not, then it is high time that you do some research for yourself. Defacing a web page is to change its appearance (when viewed by the user) by removing, adding, or altering files in the webserver, which is generally done by […]
So you’ve been researching web development because you want to make a website for your business or even a personal (blog) website, but you’re not tech-savvy enough to build a website yourself and don’t have the budget to hire a web developer. What do you do? Well, the answer is very simple, use a website […]
Using cPanel to manage your servers makes your job ten times easier and saves you a lot of time since most of your tasks and configurations will only take a few clicks to do. But it can be daunting, especially for inexperienced beginners who might make decisions that can affect their website performance and flexibility […]