Creating a professional looking website for your online business is the first step to branding and gaining customers. Until drag and drop website builders became a common thing, , website owners had to contact professional web developers to build their website but with various DIY website builders available, setting up your own website is a hassle-free task. There are many website builders available today, each with their own set of features. One of leading website…
What is web hosting? Web hosting (in layman’s terms) is the service of providing storage space for a website or application on a server on the internet. Once your website is made available on the internet, it can be accessed by other computers connected to the internet. How web hosting works: Web hosts are companies that rent out their services and technologies to host websites on the internet. Once the hosting company hosts your website,…
As a web pro, one of the things you need to manage your business website effectively is a control panel. cPanel is a popular web-based dashboard that helps you with many administrative tasks. In this article, we’ll see how to use cPanel to create a website in some simple steps. What is cPanel? cPanel is a web-based graphical control panel that helps you create websites and manage your web hosting account. It has a simple…
If you’re a developer/blogger who is tech-savvy and just plain adventurous, you might feel confident enough to host a domain/website on your own. That’s right, in your basement (if you live in a part of the world where most people have one) or maybe just in your own bedroom. If you think a hosting company like us wouldn’t even want to broach the topic with you–you’re mistaken! We are as geeky as some of you are and…
So before we start with the steps involved to configure a firewall in Linux, first let’s make sure we understand what a firewall is and how it works. Understanding what a firewall is and how it works: A firewall is a program that surrounds the interface between a private network and the rest of the big and (usually) bad internet. You can think of the firewall as a gateway. It follows pre-configured rules that allow…
In today’s day and age words like ‘mobile application’ and ‘cloud’ are creating quite a stir. Each day there is some new application in the market with the aim of delivering the best performance to their users. Mobile backend services help achieve this by building a better infrastructure. What is BaaS? These days most mobile applications need a backend that’s connected to the internet. BaaS (Backend-as-a-Service) is the service that helps enable that, helping you…
SSH or secure shell service in Ubuntu allows a safe remote access while logging in. It also allows other network communications within an organization. To understand how to enable SSH in Ubuntu and Linux and use it like a pro, let us first understand what is SSH, how important it is and how we can enable it in Ubuntu and Linux. What is SSH? SSH is Secure Shell Service, a secure way or channel to…
What is OpenSSH? OpenSSH is a suite based on SSH (Secure Shell) protocol providing a secure network for services like remote login or remote file transfer. OpenSSH is also known as OpenBSD Secure Shell and was initially developed as a part of OpenBSD operating system. What are the features of OpenSSH? OpenSSH is freely available for everyone, their code encourages reusing and auditing of the code. OpenSSH has a secure tunnel to forward remote TCP…
Many people do not think a company blog is as important as content on social media platforms. Here’s a few stats that should make you think differently about corporate blogging: B2B marketers that use blogs receive 67% more leads than those that do not. Companies who blog receive 97% more links to their website Blogs have been rated as the 5th most trusted source for accurate online information -HubSpot, 2017 How corporate blogs can help…
As a website owner, the security of your website is of utmost importance. An SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Certificate ensures and authenticates a website by encrypting the data within your website’s network basically your computer and the end destination server. OpenSSL is a powerful toolkit for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) and licensed under an Apache style license. SSL widely known as Secure Socket Layer is the security protocol that encrypts…