PoC exploit – Windows PrintNightmare bug
Unfortunately, researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in Windows operating system. The proof-of-concept Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-1675) has been published online by mistake. Microsoft classified this vulnerability as remote code execution, hackers might be able to take full control of unpatched computers. This vulnerability affects both personal computers and cloud servers. […]
NGINX Caching Makes Your Website Load Faster – officially supported by cPanel
The most common question we get from our clients is “how to make my website load faster?” Unfortunately, there is no magic fix but Caching typically helps your website load faster. In simple terms, Caching is a process of storing the static website data on your visitor’s computer, or on a server closer to your […]
Plesk Onyx Is Reaching Its End of Life
It is time to say goodbye to Plesk Onyx, if you are still using Plesk Onyx to manage your websites time is running out to upgrade your control panel to the latest Plesk version (Plesk Obsidian). As we highlighted this in our previous blog Plesk Onyx will reach its end of life on April 2021. […]
cPanel and Plesk Price Hike
In October 2020 cPanel and Plesk announced new changes to the pricing structure and these changes will become effective on January 1st 2021. cPanel has increased the monthly licensing fee across the board, for detail information please visit here. The price breakdown is as follow: Plan Current Monthly Fee New Monthly Fee – starting Jan […]
Why Should I Pay For SSL Certificate? Paid SSL certificate vs Free SSL Certificate
In a nutshell, SSL certificate enables secure communication over the internet by encrypting data such as your password or credit card information which is being transmitted between your computers and the server. When visiting a website or blog that is secured by an SSL certificate you will see a padlock icon or green bar on […]
Windows Web Hosting – Plesk Obsidian on Windows Server 2019
Here at Cirrus Hosting, we are pleased to offer our latest Windows Web Hosting solution. Our new plan is running on the latest Windows Server version and the latest control panel (Plesk Obsidian). If you are looking for the most stable and up-to-date .net, MS SQL, PHP and MariaDB hosting then we got you covered. […]
Cirrus Hosting Is Supporting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Cirrus Hosting is pleased to announce that we are now supporting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS; a new operating system is now added to our dedicated server plans as well as the latest Cloud VM and Virtual Private Server (VPS) plans. As you might have already known every Long Term Support (LTS) release has a 5 years […]
Windows, Linux, Cpanel & Plesk Life Cycle
Has Your Windows/Linux Or Control Panel Reached Its End Of Life? Every software product including Operating System (Windows & Linux) and control panel (cPanel & Plesk) has a life cycle. The beginning of life is when the software is released to the public and the end of life is when the software developers stop supporting […]
How To Disable TLS 1.0 & TLS 1.1 on a Windows Server, VPS or Cloud VM
We talked extensively about Google, Microsoft and PCIs push to create a more secure internet. From supporting an open-source SSL certificate initiative like Let’s Encrypt to prompting “Not Secure” warning when visiting all HTTP sites through chrome, IE, and Mozilla. Those of you who are running an e-commerce site are familiar with PCI and already […]
Latest Update On Apple and Google’s Effort to Shorten The SSL Certificate Lifetime
Once again Apple and Google are reshaping the global Certificate Authority (CA) market. In 2018 we published a blog post about Google’s effort to enhance connection security; Google was encouraging – some might say forcing- website owners to secure their blogs and websites by installing SSL certificate. In October 2017 Google Chrome started showing “Not […]
