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Like so many others, I’m an intermediate web developer who is starting to get into the security side of things and I’m looking to start running a Linux VPS (Debian). For years, I’ve resisted the move to VPSs because of the security implica… Continue reading Securing a Linux VPS: is the standard advice enough? [closed]
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-serve-flask-applications-with-gunicorn-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-18-04#step-6-%E2%80%94-securing-the-application says for running a flask web application with gunicorn and nginx with https:… Continue reading Are the following two ways to obtain server certificates for web servers to host web applications?
AWS today quietly brought spot capacity to Fargate, its serverless compute engine for containers that supports both the company’s Elastic Container Service and, now, its Elastic Kubernetes service. Like spot instances for the EC2 compute platform, Fargate Spot pricing is significantly cheaper, both for storage and compute, than regular Fargate pricing. In return, though, you […] Continue reading AWS launches discounted spot capacity for its Fargate container platform
At its re:Invent conference, AWS CEO Andy Jassy today announced the launch of AQUA (the Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift, the company’s data warehousing service. As Jassy noted in his keynote, it’s hard to scale data warehouses when you want to do analytics over that data. At some point, as your data warehouse or […] Continue reading AWS speeds up Redshift queries 10x with AQUA
I want to make a client-side, Windows-based application that allows the user to register and it will store the registration details in an online MySQL server.
However when i googled ways to do this, I found that to establish… Continue reading Risk of getting MySQL database compromised with a client application
Cloud Foundry, the open-source platform-as-a-service that, with the help of lots of commercial backers, is currently in use by the majority of Fortune 500 companies, launched well before containers, and especially the Kubernetes orchestrator, were a thing. Instead, the project built its own container service, but the rise of Kubernetes obviously created a lot of […] Continue reading Cloud Foundry’s Kubernetes bet with Project Eirini hits 1.0
Could the website owner (admin) determine whether to record users IP?
If the website owner (admin) doesn’t want to record users IP, will the host provider or domain name provider still get and record users IP?
For example I… Continue reading Would my IP be recorded when I visit a website
Last Monday I received two emails from my hoster:
10h42: Connection notification
10h42: Confirm your notification
I didn’t login that day, so I knew something was wrong. I immediately logged in, changed the password and a… Continue reading Hosting password compromised
The attack on local web-hosting provider Pro-Service – likely politically motivated – took out 2,000 websites and the national television station. Continue reading Country of Georgia Suffers Widespread Cyberattack
Is it legal to host Servers in DarkNet? it should be
Is it still legal if those Servers are used for criminal activities? Couldn´t one argue that it is not possible for the host to determine what his servers are used for?