Posted at September 26, 2018 at 6:43 pm by Stacey Talieres
To follow up with our latest article, besides CBT Locker Ransomware affecting WordPress websites, this past month many internet users experienced another well known ransomware program called WannaCry. This malicious program would encrypt files by adding .WCRY to the end of the files. Those affected were threatened to pay a ransom of $300 in bitcoins. If those infected did not comply the amount would double eventually leading up to the deletion of the infected files.
As of May 12th, Europe experienced the worst of WannaCry. The United Kingdom was a huge target suffering major losses in their healthcare industry. Read More
Posted at August 7, 2018 at 3:08 pm by Ylber Popaj
Plesk has recently added a few Plesk Toolkits that might have a massive influence on your customer experience. Here is a breakdown on what’s new.
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This toolkit is one of the most outstanding features of them all. First and foremost, it utilizes the world’s most popular CMS, WordPress. Plesk describes it as, “the most complete, secure and versatile toolkit for WordPress.” The most notable CMS feature is its user-friendliness and simplicity; the Plesk WordPress toolkit takes that even further. Read More
Posted at June 18, 2018 at 8:13 pm by Ylber Popaj
Two Factor Authentication is a super effective and easy to setup security measure. This cPanel feature provides an additional layer of security by requiring a code authentication upon a successful login attempt. So, after logging into WHM with the correct username and password, you would be prompted to input a code generated by an authentication application like Google Authenticator. In this blog post, we will help you activate Two-Factor Authentication and explain the benefits of using it.
The initial process begins in your Web Host Manager (WHM). Read More
Posted at June 13, 2018 at 1:22 pm by Ylber Popaj
Without a GUI, servers must be configured and operated through SSH, which requires extensive knowledge of command line syntax. Control panels provide a centralized and intuitive way to manage your servers.
Bread Basket, which is included for free with InterServer VPS plans, take the tedium out of having to type line after line of commands — after all, webmasters are humans, not robots.
InterServer’s customized control panel is designed for maximum usability and cost savings. While competitors often charge additional fees for control panel access, Bread Basket allows users to easily deploy hundreds of cloud applications at no extra cost. Read More
Posted at April 18, 2018 at 3:46 pm by Ylber Popaj
You may have become familiar with our InterShield blog posts. It has become a special security series of ours which serves of high importance to us and Web Hosting our customers. Due to its ongoing success and popularity, we have decided to describe the step by step process of which InterShield follows.
A request to access a website comes in, someone has entered http://domain.com into a browser.
Using litespeed web-server and the RBL rule, Interserver InterShield queries our own internal RBL blacklist. This blacklist contains known bad ips; ips that have been blocked for bad activity, hacking, uploading malware and a number of other activities. Read More
Posted at March 19, 2018 at 7:17 am by Ylber Popaj
InterServer’s InterShield system is able to stop many attacks and updates daily based on new data including new possible malware, known exploits and other Common Vulnerabilities. However, sometimes even with all these a new type of malware comes up.
In a recent case a site was redirecting to a pharmacy website but only when coming from a google search engine result. The site initially passed all scans of known vulnerabilities, the url did not exist in the code or database and it was reproducible. In this cases advanced debugging is needed. Read More
Posted at February 21, 2018 at 8:46 am by Ylber Popaj
The month of February brought yet another scare to the hosting world. A WordPress vulnerability was exposed which allowed hackers to initiate what is known as a denial of service (DoS) attack on ones website. Ultimately, under a DoS attack, your website becomes unreachable by anyone including you. The technical understanding of performing the DoS attack is rather simple.The flaw begins under the well-known “/wp-admin” directory. Every WordPress site is assigned this path as an administrative source. It was discovered that while loading this path there exists a script which fetches a number of JS/CSS files. Read More
Posted at January 12, 2018 at 12:07 pm by Ylber Popaj
You may have heard of terms like Meltdown and Spectre in recent tech news. Both exhibit a hardware vulnerability exposed by a small team in Austria. Through software, both are able to access private data on a server, but how is this possible? The vulnerability begins at the most inner core of a computer, the Central Processing Unit (CPU). By observing micro processes and transactions, these programs were able to access other parts of the computer that may not be relevant to the actual programs running. Read More
Posted at December 18, 2017 at 5:25 pm by Ylber Popaj
In recent news, you may have noticed the subject popularity on Bitcoin. The following questions may come up,
We will help you get a clear picture of the internet currency without getting into the nitty gritty details that may confuse most people.
Firstly, Bitcoin is an internet currency or better known as, a cryptocurrency. It offers a way to make transactions without the common use of the U.S Read More
If you want to run your own website, you are going to need to have a server where all the files for the site can be stored. While it is technically possible to host your own website on your own computer or server, that is far from reliable and will require some very specialized knowledge. This is why the vast majority of websites today are hosted on servers run by a company that specializes in web hosting, such as InterServer. Even if you know the basics about what web hosting is, there are some things you will want to understand before you sign up for an account.
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Posted at December 24, 2021 at 8:21 am by Michael Lavrik
Owning your own business is the dream of millions of people. When successful, owning your own business allows you to make decisions about how things are run, set your own schedule, and hopefully make a lot of money. Unfortunately, starting a traditional business can also take a lot of time, effort, and capital to get going, which puts it out of reach for many. If you want to start your own business without having to invest tens of thousands, or even millions, of dollars, the internet might be the solution you are looking for.
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Posted at December 10, 2021 at 10:04 am by Michael Lavrik
Raptoreum mining is a new cryptocurrency making waves around the internet. We have been fielding a lot of requests from customers asking if they can purchase the AMD Ryzen Dedicated Server and use it for mining. The most important question is if this is profitable? Will the costs of the server be covered? If you are using the server for other purposes. Are you looking to offload some processing power to generate a new source of income? Is it a good idea to run a crypto mining app alongside your important workloads? Read More
Posted at December 2, 2021 at 7:05 am by Michael Lavrik
Making money online is the dream of many people. Having the ability to work from home (or anywhere you would like) and support yourself and your family with a steady income may sound too good to be true, but it is a reality for many people. One of the most popular ways to make money online is by publishing a WordPress blog. A blog, or weblog, can be about anything you can imagine. Whether you create a site about a hobby you are passionate about, or you publish content to support your existing business, there are lots of opportunities to make money.
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Posted at November 26, 2021 at 10:12 am by Michael Lavrik
WooCommerce is the most popular module for WordPress that is used by businesses today. A large majority of companies that want to have an eCommerce presence online will turn to WooCommerce because of the many benefits that it brings to the table. One of the many things that really makes this system great is the fact that it can be customized so much using available extensions and plugins. Anyone who is new to WooCommerce will want to take some time to browse through the list of available plugins and extensions. With just a quick glance, it is easy to see that you can add just about any functionality you desire to your eCommerce site.
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Posted at November 19, 2021 at 6:00 am by Michael Lavrik
Greetings, maybe it's just me, but, I do not see a way to utilize your coupon, also, how many websites can be added to your vps servers?