Your online store reliable by using SSL certificates

SSL Certificates… for what?

First of all, what is an SSL certificate? SSL Certificates are issued by a trusted Certificate Authorities, which offer different types of this according to your website’s needs. They are used to establish a secure encrypted connection between a browser (user’s computer) and a server (website).

An SSL connection protects sensitive data, such as credit card information, and user login credentials exchanged during each visit (session). SSL Certificates also protect your information by keeping it safe as it makes its way through the internet, avoiding other users from tracking, copying or decode it.

This serves as an electronic signature that gives identity and credentials when a secure website is accessed or a transaction that implies offering confidential information is made, such as giving credit card numbers on an e-commerce shop.

By having an SSL certificate you can make your customers trust that their information and the buying process will be safe and secure.An easy way to know if your website currently has SSL protection is by looking at its URL, if it has it, then it would sure have the HTTPS prefix, which means HTTP secure.

Other way is looking in some part of the browser window for an icon with the shape of a padlock, if you click on it will display information about the certificate and the entity that generated it.

Now that you know what SSL certificates are, have you ever thought about the importance of having one in your website?

If you are having a trouble with people buying in your website and also you don’t have a Certificate, your customers have probably dealt with their browser displaying an untrusted error message, and this may have given them lack of confidence on your e-commerce, causing you to lose potential business.

Make sure to look for providers of this service and choose the best option for you. The most time you wait, the more customers that you’d be losing.

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Windows vs Linux

Windows vs Linux

Users who are considering making a change from Windows to Linux often want to know what are the advantages and the disadvantages of each of the operating system. Here we are going to list some of the most common topics that are comparing and which one is better:

 Distros: While Windows has a more easy structure, with progressive iterations divided by tier, Linux is more customizable. Distros, that are the name given to hundreds of different Linux-based operating systems, can vary wildly in design, sophistication and functionality. However, as it is an open source, it can be modified and altered by anyone to create their own custom versions of the software. Which is great?

  Installation: As for the installation Linux is easier because the distro can be installed from within the lived-booted OS or simply run live for as long as toy need. Although, polished distros require more technical know to how to get up and running. By contrast windows installation is more time consuming and requires a minimum of user input compare to many distros

 Security: Linux security is one of the principal reasons for its popularity among the IT community. One of the most effective’s ways Linux secures is throughout their privileges that help to avoid virus attacks while cyber-attacks targeting Windows are much more likely to succeed.

 Support: Linux has a large amount of information to fall back to, as for tips, tricks, tutorials, forums etc. from other users and developer, because they don’t have a very cohesive support structure, it makes it very simply for anyone with access to Google, write their problem and find the solution. While Windows has a more effective structure of support which make it easy to access and understand it but there is not always an answer for everything.

•     Verdict: Given their different strengths is difficult to choose whether Linux or Windows is better. The one that will work for your business depends on how your company operates, and what applications it uses, so for instance you have to know how does your business operate and what systems should have. If you have a small business that works primarily in software then Linux is the best option for you, the free availability will reduce overheads, and set-up won´t be too complicated to manage. For a large business it will be a little bit more complex, but in the end this change, can bring much more benefits in your company for example in the security area.

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Cloud computing, a green alternative

Why is cloud computing a green technology?

To understand the potential advantage of cloud computing in more detail, it Is important to look at the different factors contributing to a lower per- user carbon footprint. These factors apply across cloud providers in general and are even relevant for many on-premise scenarios.

The comparatively smaller carbon footprint of cloud computing is a consequence of both improved infrastructure efficiency and a reduced need for it infrastructure, to support a given user base. In turn, these primary levers are heavily influenced by four key factors.

Dynamic Provisioning: Cloud providers can reduce the inefficiency caused by over-provisioning by optimizing the number of active servers to support a given user base.

Multi-tenancy: Major cloud providers are able to serve millions of users at thousands of companies simultaneously on one massive shared infrastructure.. By operating multi-tenant environments, cloud providers can reduce overhead for on-boarding and managing individual organizations and users.

Server Utilization: Cloud computing can drive energy savings by improving server utilization. As large-scale cloud providers tend to run their infrastructure at higher and more stable utilization levels than corresponding on-premise operations, the same tasks can be performed with far fewer servers.

Data Center Efficiency: data center design-the way facilities are physically constructed, equipped with IT and supporting infrastructure, and managed- has a major impact on the energy use for a given amount of computing power. A common measure of how efficiently a data center uses its power is called power usage effectiveness ratio.

In addition other important factors to the four primary drivers of cloud computing´s environmental advantage, other contributing factors are worth mentioning:

Hardware comes with an “embodied” carbon footprint from the energy associated with producing, distributing and disposing of equipment.

Cloud providers are more likely to take an active role in tailoring hardware components to the specific needs of the services they run.

Cloud computing drives the efficiency of IT with unprecedented economies of scale, higher sophistication and strong incentives to create ongoing efficiencies and continue improvement while protecting the environment.
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Manage your Linux server via Web Interface

Most of the people want to have a website, but having a website means managing a server so they think that managing it can be painful and costly and they fear about it. Let me tell you that there are Graphical User Interfaces (GUI’s) that can help you with the management of a Linux server with just installing them. You can do as much as you want in your server with just a few clicks and all of this in your web browser, no need to access the server command line.

Here are a few examples:

WHM

Web Host Manager, designed for system administrators providing full control of the server as if you were logged into the command line. It allows to web hosting providers to add unlimited hosting accounts, new technologies, applications, security, etc.

WHM allows to the host provider basically the same functions as it was a cPanel but with full system access to it. Credentials for authentication, support sections, security, server configurations, everything for their clients. They can setup different hosting plans, according to the client needs and server requirements for everyone. Set reseller plans is very simple as setting a cPanel account giving certain privileges to them

 

cPanel

cPanel is an user interface that any person or website owner can use in order to make and manage their website. It is mostly used and provided by Web hosting companies to help website owners perform essential tasks quickly and easily and control every aspect of their websites.

With cPanel you can manage users, passwords, sub domains, upload files, create ftp users, emails, install shopping carts, create and delete databases, protect your directories, backups, etc. Pretty much you can install any software you need and/or your web hosting can provide.

 

Virtualmin

Virtualmin is a powerful and flexible free web hosting control panel for Linux a-like systems based on Open Source web-based systems management. There you can manage your virtual domains, mailboxes, databases, applications, and the entire Linux server, from one comprehensive and easy interface.

There are also paid versions of Virtualmin depending on the number of domains that you need, from 10 to unlimited domains and like every GUI available, it counts with support.

 

Webmin

Webmin is an Open Source web-based interface for system administration. You can use it with any web browser; you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. It also removes the manually edition of the Linux a-like configuration of servers and allows you to manage a system from the console or remotely.

It works like cPanel, you do not have full access to the server specs, you can’t control everything but your own folder/domain in which you are. You can change everything within your rank of permissions but you won’t have full access to do anything you want.

 

Conclusion

Utilizing user interfaces that allow you to control and manage your server needs are a huge help to website owners that don’t know how to use the command line, or for people that do not want to get into troubles with the server needs or anything. You can always find well known hosting providers that will offer you these tools in order to make your experience better and pleasant.

Advantages of using a GUI:

Simple installation process: Installation of these interfaces is very simple and can be installed in a few steps.

Preconfigured Services: After installation you can find preconfigured services which can help you to start setting up your required environment.

Friendly user interfaces: the interfaces are very simple to understand and start configuring your server as you like.

Automatic processes: With just clicks you can add users, mails, etc

Easy management of the server (through web browser): You can access from any browser and configure it without even login into the server.

No command line knowledge required: You don’t need any knowledge of the command line since they do your job automatically.

Disadvantages of using a GUI:

Slower response time of the Hosting providers: if you encounter a problem with your configuration, you can always request technical support, which in some cases you will need to wait from 5 minutes to 24 hours for them to reply, depending on the customer service.

Slows the server down: sometimes installing any Web hosting manager system can slow your server down.

License Costs (WHM and cPanel): most likely you need to attain a license to start using them.

Restricted for size: Panels are most meant for websites that fall in the range of small and medium.

Hosting systems Vulnerabilities: Remember these systems can vulnerable as it can prone a security risk to your content due to its time of update process.
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