by Richard W | Sep 14, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux
When you are a webmaster managing online servers, there some things you usually do when setting up a new server. Things like setting the root password, configuring the hostname of the server and many others. One area that’s very important is configuring the...
by Richard W | Aug 26, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Security
When managing online servers that can be accessed from anywhere, you may want to add some level of security by disabling SSH logon for the root account. By default when you install CentOS 7 and SSH server, the root account automatically have remote access via SSH....
by Richard W | Aug 18, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
With Google’s announcement that sites that implement HTTPS or SSL will get a small ranking boost, most webmasters are jumping onto the news and switching their blogs and websites to serve https traffic. We ourselves have switched to HTTPS. If you look in the...
by Richard W | Jul 14, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security
This brief tutorial is going to show you how to log on to a SSH server without passwords using only SSH encryption keys. The reason you may want to do this is to enable more secured form of authenticating to your SSH enabled servers. Using password authentication...
by Richard W | May 14, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web, Wordpress
Here’s the brief story behind this post. I was looking for a free web host to host a test blog for one of our customers. He wanted to see how the site would look and wanted to test a fully functional WordPress site. I didn’t want to register for a new web host or...
by Richard W | Jan 20, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web, Windows
If you’re not using Google Chrome at home, you may want to start using it because it offers improved security over some of its counterparts. I have used Chrome over the years and in my personal opinion, it’s faster, lighter and easy to use when compared to Internet...
