If you own a website, it’s imperative that you constantly monitor it like a hawk. You need to monitor things like the performance of each page, how it responds to users, and of course, its up-time. In other words, you need to make sure that your website is behaving the way it’s supposed to.

The last thing you would want is for users to repeatedly end up in your website » Continue Reading

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is a form of large-scale cyberattack aimed at a website or network with the ultimate goal of shutting down its services and resources, either temporarily or permanently. Unlike a DoS attack, which is launched from a single computer and internet connection, a DDoS attack originates from hundreds of compromised computers.

How does a DDoS attack work?

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VPN

A virtual private network (VPN) is a technology that provides you with an encrypted channel to access the internet. Basically, a VPN handles all your internet traffic instead of your internet service provider (ISP), though you still need the latter for internet connection.

But what are its benefits? Here are four key advantages of using a VPN.

1. Secure connection » Continue Reading