(The Hosting News) – If you try visiting Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia or social site Reddit tomorrow and notice things aren’t working, it’s not a technical glitch. The popular online sites are staging a blackout in protest of controversial anti-piracy legislation including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Critics of [...]
(The Hosting News) – It’s known as the Stop Online Privacy Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the U.S. Senate, there’s a similar bill called the Protect IP Act. No matter the name difference or house of Congress, the legislation has the intention of cutting down on internet copyright violations by giving authorities [...]
(The Hosting News) – New server processors are ready to take over the market. Just yesterday, tech company AMD unveiled its processor series known as Opteron 6200 and 4200. With the launch, AMD focused on three areas including higher business performance, virtualized scalability, and cloud efficiency. Concerning the matter in a company press release, Paul [...]
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Today’s websites almost always use web applications of some form. The days of static HTML pages are long gone. We depend on scripting languages, databases, and other tools to dynamically generate our websites as they are requested. As a result, a new type of security threat has emerged, one that targets vulnerable scripts, database weaknesses, [...]
(The Hosting News) – A new web service called Pagebin has just launched that provides instant free web pages with no user registration required and does not force advertisements onto user’s pages. In the past there have always been free web hosting providers, but never before has there been a Pagebin. Free web page hosting [...]
(The Hosting News) – SoftLayer® Technologies, the innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Managed Hosting, today announced the release of its Mobile app for Windows Phone 7 and Mobile HD app for iPad. Specifically designed for the Windows Phone 7 environment and iPad’s screen size, the new apps bring robust server and account management tools [...]
One of the major security threats an Internet-connected server might encounter is a DDoS attack. It is a violent, often faceless, intrusion on a server that can leave all of its websites paralyzed. DoS stands for denial of service, and a DoS attack is one in which the attacker typically exploits a protocol, application, or [...]
