Differences between Shared, VPS, and Dedicated Hosting There are many different types of hosting available nowadays. While purchasing a hosting service, it will be confusing as to which service is right for your need. Whether you should choose shared hosting, VPS hosting or dedicated server hosting. In this article, we will discuss in brief...
IBM to acquire software company Red Hat for $34 billion
IBM announced that it will acquire open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion. This deal will help IBM to expand its reach as an enterprise cloud computing provider. Red Hat describes itself as a leading provider of open source software and services for enterprise customers, focusing on cloud computing and Linux servers. In...
VestaCP Server Compromised
Open source hosting control panel VestaCP became a victim of cyber attacks recently. Attackers were able to compromise VestaCP server and they changed all all installation scripts to log admin password and IP address in addition to the distro name. One of the team members from VestaCP confirmed the hacking attack in response on...
How to change the domain of a WordPress Multisite
If you wish to change the primary domain of your WordPress multisite installation, you need to update five values in the website’s database. Before you proceed to follow the below steps, please ensure that you have secured full data backup at your end. Following are the list of tables in which you need to...
Create an FTP account in Plesk Onyx
While working on a website, you may need additional FTP accounts to provide limited access to other user. Today, we will discuss how can we create additional FTP account using Plesk Onyx hosting control panel. To create an FTP account from Plesk Onyx, you need to follow the below steps: Go to Websites &...
Why Is WordPress Optimization A Continuing Trend In Hosting?
Cloud hosting is the future of web hosting. According to Andrea Miller, “The cloud is essentially a series of climate-controlled rooms that contain massive banks of servers. The cloud has become popular as it is less expensive; it offers high performance and better security. The hosting service you use for your WordPress website can...
Cloud Hosting – The Future Of Web Hosting
A lot of businesses, both large multinational companies, and smaller startups are increasingly moving their web hosting from traditional physical servers to the more versatile cloud hosting. Why is this? Are companies proffering traditional hosting solutions going the way of the Dodo? What exactly are the differences between these two forms of hosting? These...
SQL Server 2017 – VS Shell Installation Has Failed with Exit Code 1638
You may receive the following error while installing SQL Server 2017 or upgrading your SQL server from the previous version: Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Setup The following error has occurred: VS Shell installation has failed with exit code 1638. For help, click: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=14.0.1000.169&EvtType=0x5B39C8B9%25401434%25403 Solution This issue is caused by Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable...
7 tips to protect information online in an onslaught of data breaches and cybersecurity meltdowns
If you have been watching the news for the last few months, you might have noticed an uptick in the reports about data breaches and ransomware attacks by cybercriminals. The victims of these cyber-attacks do not number in their hundreds but are often in their millions and while the danger might seem far away...
Top 5 Live Chat software and service providers
Live chat is an important option for business. It allows their customers to contact them immediately to get support and assistance. Today, we will evaluate top 5 live chat service providers. LiveChat Inc. LiveChat is one of the widely used Livechat application. It has almost all features which are required by businesses. Following...
Apple iOS 11.2.2 update to fix Spectre vulnerability in modern CPUs
The latest iOS patch from Apple addresses the Intel chip flaw that affects every single device. Apple has released iOS 11.2.2, which closes the Spectre vulnerability caused by faulty chip design. Apple has released update 11.2.2 for iOS, which addresses holes in Safari and WebKit that allow Spectre to affect iPhones, iPods, and iPads....
Windows emergency Meltdown patch: Microsoft stops update for AMD PCs after crash reports
Microsoft has recently released a patch to mitigate Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaw. Microsoft has scaled back its rollout of Windows patches against the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws after reports the updates were crashing computers with AMD processors. “To prevent AMD customers from getting into an unbootable state, Microsoft will temporarily pause sending...
(104) Connection reset by peer
Generally you get this error whenever remote server sends you a RST packet, which indicates an immediate dropping of the connection, rather than the usual handshake. There could be many issue for this error from server side and only server administrator can troubleshoot and fix the issue. If it is temporary issue, you can...
No symlink protection detected on cPanel Server
If you are using cPanel on CentOS 6 or CentOS 7 server, you may see the following security advisory: No symlink protection detected You do not appear to have any symlink protection enabled on this server. You can protect against this in multiple ways. Please review the following documentation to find a solution that...