What can I do with Windows VPS hosting?
What can you do with Windows VPS hosting? A better question might be what can’t you do. Windows VPS hosting is functionally the same as Windows dedicated server hosting. It has additional benefits over...
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We are always looking for ways to further improve and enhance our services here at CloudServers.com. One of our key goals is simplicity, so if there are things we can do to make sure that our Linux VPS...
View ArticleHow to implement IIS8 FTP Logon Attempt Restrictions
This walkthrough will guide you in implementing IIS8 FTP logon attempt restrictions. To begin with, let’s install the FTP Server. For this walkthrough, I am installing this on a freshly built VPS...
View ArticleUsing native IIS8 modules to increase security–Dynamic IP Restrictions
Microsoft has introduced some new native modules with IIS8 to aid in combatting brute force FTP attacks and DDoS attacks on the web server. These are very easy to implement on your CloudServers.com...
View ArticleUpgrading MySQL to MariaDB for WordPress
MariaDB is an alternative to MySQL. In most cases, MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, meaning that no data file conversions need to be done. If you would like additional information related...
View ArticleUsing Dash Shell to speed boot times with RHEL or CentOS
Dash shell is commonly installed on Debian distributions of Linux and is the default shell in Ubuntu. Traditionally, bash shell is used due to its large list of features. However, this also make bash...
View ArticleInstalling WordPress with MariaDB
WordPress is a very popular blogging application. It is really easy to install using WPI but in this case, we want to use MariaDB rather than MySQL. Because of this modification we will have to...
View ArticleDefining VPS Feature: Cost-Savings
Please note up front that “cost-savings” does not equal “cheap”. Sometimes super-low-cost items are also “cheap” – and cheap isn’t a good thing when it comes to something like managing your data. In...
View ArticleScaling SSL With IIS 8 Server Name Indication (SNI)
Server Name Indication (SNI) is one of the great new features of IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012. SNI is an extension of the TLS protocol that specifies the virtual domain or hostname during SSL...
View ArticleCloudServers.com is Closing
*This is an important announcement for all CloudServers.com users* Today, we are announcing the closure of CloudServers.com and all its services. We will be merging with SherWeb.com, an internationally...
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