Cirrus Hosting’s 2019 Year in Review
Happy New Year from everyone at Cirrus Hosting, we wish you joy, happiness and peace for 2020. Let’s review some of the highlights of 2019. Revamped Dedicated Web Hosting Plan In the first quarter of 2019, we revamped our Dedicated Web Hosting plans. Dedicated website hosting offers the best of both worlds; ease of use […]
Backup, Backup, Backup, Reliable Backup Solution for your VPS Cloud VM
In today’s digital economy a reliable Backup and Recovery strategy should be part of your business continuity plan. There are many reasons why you need a backup solution, to name a few server failures, deleting files by mistake, Hard Disk Drive (HDD) corruption and Virus / Malware / Ransomware attack. As we highlighted in our […]
cPanel Automatic Conversion from EasyApache 3 to EasyApache 4
As you know cPanel deprecated EasyApache 3 on 31st December 2018. A few days ago cPanel announced a date for EasyApache 3 to EasyApache 4 Auto conversion; the automatic conversion will take place in early 2020 and it might break your site. Optmods will not be migrated automatically and you have to fix it manually. […]
Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack
As our dependence on computers and computer network connectivity grows so do the vulnerabilities and the risk of falling victim to a costly cyber-attack(s). We tend to forget that most computer systems and their underlying technologies are susceptible to cyber-attacks. According to Kaspersky researchers, Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) are […]
What Can You Do With Windows Virtual Machine 2019 – 2020
A Windows Virtual Machine (VM) or Windows Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a program that emulates a computer system and offers the same functionality as a physical Windows server. VM performs and executes tasks exactly like an isolated standalone server, it can be rebooted independently and have its own administrator access, users, IP address, Memory […]
Cirrus Hosting Is Now Deploying CentOS 8
Cirrus Hosting is happy to announce that we are now offering the latest version of CentOS on our Dedicated Server plans and we are in the process of offering it to our cloud VM/VPS clients. CentOS 8 comes with lots of new features and upgrades. Let’s take a look at some of them: Introduction of […]
New Vulnerability in Exim Mail Server, CVE-2019-16928, cPanel & WHM Patch Is Out
National Vulnerability Database (NVD) posted a warning on 27/09/2019 about the new vulnerability effecting Exim Versions 4.92 to 4.92.2, to read more please click here. For those of you who are not familiar with Exim, Exim is an open-source message transfer system and its main task is to accept the messages from the source and […]
How To Protect Your Apache Against DDoS With mod_evasive
In 2019 we have seen a surge in number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, according to the Kaspersky researchers number of DDoS attacks have gone up by 84% this year and the prediction is these types of attacks will get more sophisticated and more common. As a web admin you should explore different […]
Cirrus Tech Ltd. – Web Hosting and Hosted Infrastructure Solutions for Small and Large Business
“Cirrus Tech Ltd., based in Toronto, Ontario, is a private, family-owned corporation founded in 1999. It is now one of Canada’s largest web hosting companies and a leading provider of comprehensive Internet services. Cirrus Tech provides locally based sales and engineering support for its Internet services in Canada and hosts its entire infrastructure in its […]
