Any site, application, service, script or anything else that runs on the internet is susceptible to attacks by malicious parties – always. This is particularly true when a service requires authentication. There are many unauthorized users, both human and robot, that will do what they can to break » Continue Reading
In an active server system, whether it’s a single machine or an entire network, every single component must function properly in order for the system to operate as it is intended. But what if one integral part – say, for instance, the processor – suddenly fails? Shouldn’t the system » Continue Reading
A Content Delivery Network, or CDN for short, is a special, distributed network of servers that are located in several strategic places around the globe. With the servers geographically-dispersed, the caching and serving of content to end users becomes much faster than it would normally be if all the » Continue Reading
A DoS (denial-of-service) attack is a form of attack (intentional event) that renders a machine or network resource unavailable for its intended users. DoS attacks involve temporarily (or sometimes indefinitely) interrupting or suspending services of a host connected to the web. DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks are a specific » Continue Reading
When communicating through the HTTP protocol, a server is required to respond to a request – for example, a web browser creating a request for a certain webpage (IP address). Servers respond through numeric codes, known as server response codes.
Although these response codes make more sense to » Continue Reading