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Configuring fast loading and secure WordPress is always challenging. It requires excellent skills and effort. Thanks to Kinsta, a modern, fully managed WordPress hosting approach where you can take advantage of all the latest speed and security technologies without spending big bucks and time. Wondering, what is Kinsta? Kinsta is a premium hosting provider, powered by Google Cloud Platform infrastructure to provide the best hosting experience ever with friendly support....

Hosting sites on the Cloud server gives much flexibility compared to shared hosting. You can install whatever you like, scale up or down, and configure for better performance and cost-optimization. If you are running multiple business sites but don’t want to host them separately, you can take advantage of Virtual Server in web servers. Let’s take a look at this scenario. I have the following two sites which I would like to point to my one cloud VM....

It’s because payroll and HR are directly associated with your employees, who are the backbone of your company. And keeping your employee happy is necessary to ensure everything runs just fine in your organization and make them feel valued to serve you for the longest time. It not only boosts loyalty but can also take your business to great heights. And to help you with all this, you need an excellent payroll and HR solution like ADP....

In any programming language, loops help you perform certain actions repeatedly, depending on a looping condition. Python supports the while and for loop constructs but does not natively support the do-while loop. However, you can emulate a do-while loop by understanding how it works— using existing loops and loop control statements in Python. You’ll learn how to do this over the next few minutes. Let’s begin! What is the Do-While Loop Construct?...

Not to mention the tiresome feeling of not keeping things in professional order. This is why businesses are turning to use virtual phone numbers for business inquiries, and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t as well. A virtual number is a telephone number without directly being connected to a telephone line. You can access and use it from as many devices you want, including laptops and mobile phones. It lets you receive calls, text messages, and even share the same number across different employees....

Ansible is one of the most popular configuration administration and infrastructure automation tools. It helps to automate infrastructure configuration/provisioning, software deployments, and general infrastructure management. Ansible was initially available on Linux. However, with Microsoft’s new viewpoint on open source, their community improvements, and their acceptance of a more agile, DevOps-minded software development method, Windows support is gradually catching up with the pace. Although Windows support requires a slight bit more configuration, it’s not very bad once the initial setup is done....

Slicing Python supports negative index slicing along with positive slicing. Negative index starts from -1 to -(iterable_length). We will use the negative slicing to get the elements from the end of an iterable. The index -1 gets you the last element from the iterable. The index -2 gets you the 2nd last element from the iterable. And it continuos till the first element. Let’s see an example. The above program will print the last and first characters from the string using negative indexing....

It’s a high-tech tablet that’s capable of browsing the web, displaying photos and videos, running apps, capturing beautiful moments and so much more. However, just like any tech device, there are times it can get glitchy and even malfunction. When this happens, it can be super annoying, especially if your screen is frozen in between doing important work on the tablet. In those cases, it’s a good idea to reset your Kindle Fire tablet to fix the problem right away....

The database is known for utilizing high resources like CPU, Memory, IO so it would be a good idea to host the database separately. A typical WordPress site would be something like below. Where all the software like Nginx/Apache, PHP, WordPress, MySQL/MariaDB is running on the same server. Having everything on the same server is ok for small to medium traffic, but if you are managing a heavy-traffic website and optimizing each layer for optimal performance then you may want to decouple the database server....

As we get more competitive and dedicate more and more time hustling and working towards our dream, sleep takes a backseat in our priority list and even though we don’t see it, it hampers our growth in the long run. Gadgets and apps such as Muse Meditation Headbands are a revolutionary breakthrough that not only measures our brain activity through 4 Electroencephalographic (EEG) sensors but also converts these EEG signals into audio feedback that is sent to the user via headphones....

The future warehouses, supply chains, manufacturing plants, and logistics hubs will be IoT-enabled. Since the technology is complex, only a few IT giants know what is under the hood. However, you can also decode it by learning about the technology inside out. Continue reading if you also want to make your business smarter or offer IoT solutions as a service. The article explains IoT architecture, the core that offers automation and convenience, and some popular use cases....

The hardware and software used in an organizational setup were designed differently, meaning they were not necessarily built to work together. However, such an organization needs assurance that its hardware and software applications can work together. What is Middleware? Middleware can be defined as software that different applications use to communicate with each other. It thus acts as a hidden transition layer that enables data management and communication for distributed applications....

Namecheap started as a domain registrar in the year 2000. Since then, it has added web-hosting, cybersecurity products, and a whole lot more to its portfolio. Its latest offering is a virtual private network: Namecheap VPN (now known as FastVPN). Namecheap VPN is a curious case of a rookie trying to beat veterans. Let’s analyze its case. But first things first. What’s a VPN? I’ll start with the same graphic to illustrate a VPN I’ve used with my HideMyAss VPN review....

A lot is going on in the competitive VPN market. Privacy people are shouting at you to get a VPN from their rooftops. While suggesting a VPN is easy, only a few understand what actually happens behind the scenes. Stay tuned for my breakdown of HMA VPN with some testing for you to see it through. But you should start from here if you don’t know… What is a VPN?...

It combines two or more disk storage arrays into logical units that behave like a single drive. This offers The grouping is implemented using software and hardware. In simple terms, RAID allows multiple hard drives to couple with a single larger storage capacity disk. Along with creating a larger storage space from numerous smaller drives, it also helps in different performance tasks, such as protection across drives to improve write and read speed and mirroring for data redundancy....

Over the past few years, technology has witnessed massive growth, and it is continuously happening. Technology has contributed a lot to the betterment of human lives and has created limitless multifunctional devices such as superfast computers, smart mobiles, advanced robots, self-driving cars, and a lot more. Internet of things (IoT) was experienced by everyone who has mobile phones, laptops, wearables, washing machines, smart speakers, and electronic gadgets connected with the Internet....

It’s quite interesting to know – there are 93 % of a website is vulnerable to SHA1 on the Internet. Google has started gradually sunsetting SHA-1 and Chrome version 39 and later will indicate visual security warning on websites with SHA-1 SSL certificate with validity beyond 1st Jan 2016. Web Administrator is busy with so many vulnerabilities this year like Freak Attack, Heartbleed, Logjam. Well, that’s how Web Security is evolving, and one of the challenging tasks for Web Security Administrator would be to keep up-to-date on one’s knowledge and act wisely on security vulnerabilities to secure Web Applications....

Whether it is a website or an application, everything has a database to manage all the available information like account credentials, personal information, and countless other data points. These databases can include a variety of databases and can even be NoSQL(Not only SQL) databases in some cases. If you are curious, you can also look for NoSQL clients for administration and development. And thanks to SQL, you can manage all that data easily using SQL queries....

Application security has always been a hot topic that has only gotten hotter with time. Even with a horde of defensive tools and practice at our disposal (firewalls, SSL, asymmetric cryptography, etc.), no web-based application can claim that it’s secure beyond the reach of hackers. Why is that? The simple reason is that building software remains a very complex and brittle process. There are still bugs (known and unknown) inside the foundation developers use, and new ones are being created with the launch of new software and libraries....

Your ISP cannot track your activities when using a VPN. Similarly, no malicious actor can snoop on your activities, considering your network connections remain always encrypted. But what if your network disconnects/reconnects for a moment? What if the connection drops for any reason? Well, that exposes your internet activity to the ISP and takes away the privacy you hoped to get. In other words, your connections become insecure. That’s when the ‘VPN Kill Switch’ is helpful....