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 […]
What Is a Web Server?
A web server is a software that is running on dedicate, virtual or embedded server, which is capable of delivering the requested data made through the web. Typically web server’s task is to process and deliver the requested information (website contents and data) that is stored on the server. Thanks to uptick in internet of […]
4 Tips To Speed Up Your WordPress Website
There is no secret that WordPress is one of the most popular CMS/Web design tools available in the market and according to some estimated almost one-third of all the websites on the internet is powered by WordPress. The most common question we get from WordPress users is “how to make my site load faster?” Unfortunately, […]
cPanel Price Hike and Changes To Licensing Structure
On Thursday 27 Jun 2019 cPanel announced new pricing and licensing structure. cPanel no longer offers unlimited account, instead effective immediately they introduced multi-tier licensing structure: cPanel Admin (up to 5 accounts) – US$20 per month cPanel Pro (up to 30 accounts) – US$30 per month cPanel Premier (up to 100 accounts). US$45 per month […]
Plesk Obsidian Features and Release Date
Plesk has recently announced the major release “Plesk Obsidian” and published a release cycle calendar. Although “Plesk Obsidian Release candidate 1” was released on June 4, but General availability of stable version will only be released on October 2019. This major release intends to move Plesk closer to achieving their goal of becoming a “complete […]
Vulnerability in Exim mail server, CVE-2019-10149, cPanel & WHM patch is out
National Vulnerability Database (NVD) posted a warning on 06/05/2019 about the flaw that was found in Exim Versions 4.87 to 4.91 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 […]
