Virtual Private Server Hosting (VPS) is a type of hosting that is used to split a single server into multiple environments. Web developers prefer VPS hosting to establish their online presence. It offers more security than shared hosting, and it’s much faster. VPS hosting is the most popular and widely used solution for all hosting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
A Content Delivery Network is a vital component of any good-old-fashioned website and software these days. The content you see on your smartphones today, on almost any site or app, images or videos, or any other sort of online content will be delivered over a content delivery network. This means the internet is divided up […]
In the world of web hosting, you’ll come across two very popular web servers: Apache and Nginx. Both are the most popular web servers for Linux. They both serve over 50% of all web traffic on the Internet. It’s no surprise that these two are so popular. This article will compare the two to see […]
What is CentOS? CentOS is a Linux distribution targeted towards Web servers. Centos was founded by Gregory Kurtzer and Lance Davis in 2004. CentOS is basically a one to one copy of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) but without RHEL branding and commercial support and is built from the same source code. CentOS appealed to […]