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Shared hosting - cheap and beginner friendly In a shared hosting environment, you share one server with other customers. These plans include the physical server and the software applications within the server. Each server works similarly to a bulked-up version of your home computer. It has hard drive space, a central processing unit (CPU), and RAM. In a shared hosting space, the host puts hundreds or even thousands of users on a single server. It’s likely that each user has more than one site, and that means one shared server can house thousands of websites. How does it work? These services are affordable because the costs to operate the server are lower. The host shared the cost between you and these other owners. There are, however, some downsides. The main drawback to using shared hosting is that you are sharing all the servers resources with the other websites. Who’s it suitable for? If you are on tight budget, shared hosting is a great option. More co...

We need this list because sometimes our Vulnerabiliy Scanning software points out that some old ciphers are WEAK. From the man pages of SSH:  -Q cipher | cipher-auth | mac | kex | key              Queries ssh for the algorithms supported for the specified version 2.  The available features are: cipher (supported sym‐              metric ciphers), cipher-auth (supported symmetric ciphers that support authenticated encryption), mac (supported message              integrity codes), kex (key exchange algorithms), key (key types). Supported cipher suites [vicky@vicky-centos-7 ~]$  ssh -Q cipher 3des-cbc blowfish-cbc cast128-cbc arcfour arcfour128 arcfour256 aes128-cbc aes192-cbc aes256-cbc rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se aes128-ctr aes192-ctr aes256-ctr aes128-gcm@openssh.com aes256-gcm@openssh.com chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com Supporte...

What is Security as a Service (SECaaS)? Security as a Service (SECaaS) can most easily be described as a cloud delivered model for outsourcing cybersecurity services. Much like Software as a Service, SECaaS provides security services on a subscription basis hosted by cloud providers. Security as a Service solutions have become increasingly popular for corporate infrastructures as a way to ease the in-house security team’s responsibilities, scale security needs as the business grows, and avoid the costs and maintenance of on-premise alternatives. Benefits of Security as a Service Cost Savings One of the biggest benefits of a Security as a Service model is that it saves a business money. A cloud delivered service is often available in subscription tiers with several upgrade options so a business only pays for what they need, when they need. It also eliminates the need for expertise. The Latest Security Tools and Updates When you implement SECaaS, you get...

The ultimate 3500-word guide in plain English to understand Blockchain. Author :  Mohit Mamoria SOURCE : https://hackernoon.com/wtf-is-the-blockchain-1da89ba19348

Flush privileges mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; when we grant some privileges for a user, running the command flush privileges will reloads the grant tables in the mysql database enabling the changes to take effect without reloading or restarting mysql service. Flush TABLES mysql> FLUSH TABLES; The command closes all tables which are currently open or in use. And clears cache which intern make better utilization on available memory. Flush HOSTS mysql> FLUSH HOSTS; The command uses host cache tables, if maximum number of connections has been reached for a particular host, mysql server will not able to make new connections. flushing host tables resets the process and again allows the connections for particular HOST. Flush LOGS mysql> FLUSH LOGS; The command closes and reopens all log files, if log files are to big and taking more time to load then you can run the command which will create an empty log file. REFERENCE / SOURCE : https://www.interserver...