When creating a private Wi-Fi network for your home, you need to make sure your network is secure. You need to know that Wi-Fi access points (routers) can be used as a tool by hackers to access your data. That is because Wi-Fi signals are often broadcasted beyond the walls of your company or home which means that hackers or neighbors, who do not have access to the Internet, could be tempted to...
Public Wi-Fi networks can be extremely dangerous because your personal data that goes through the system can be accessed by hackers, such as credit/debit card numbers and the passwords to use them. You can follow a series of simple rules to avoid becoming a cybercrime victim. 1. You should always enable the option to use a secure connection (HTTPS) in your device settings. This is also...
When choosing a web hosting plan, we need to consider several aspects such as data transfer speed and bandwidth. These concepts can be confusing for some users, so let’s try to explain what we are talking about when using terms such as transferring data from a web hosting or bandwidth. The data transfer limit is an essential factor when determining what type of web hosting plan we need...
Sometimes, to increase computer speed, you need to upgrade the hardware components to newer ones. Let’s take a few minutes to present to our readers a few ways how to increase the computer speed without changing any part on their computer. 1. Make sure that all the files you have on your desktop are in folders. Organizing your files into folders cleans up the desktop and also reduces the...
Cloud technology is one of the most effective ways to describe web-based IT services hosted outside your location. When using cloud-based services, your IT infrastructure is hosted on dedicated servers and is no longer on your server at the office or home. In fact, what is the cloud? In a simplified form, Cloud Computing refers to storing, processing and using data on computers and...
Finding made easy At one point , some if not all, applications make some changes to their files infrastructure to some degree that a file like a cfg is no longer where it was “some time ago” leading to a broken script or just frustration and lost time searching the documentation. Here comes mlocate into play. It’s one of the simplest and quickest tools for finding the location...
While a VPS is sold as a service by an Internet hosting provider, they are practically virtual containers with their own operating system running within a dedicated server. On a physical server we host multiple virtual machines, each cut-off from the others. In the world of VPS hosting, a VPS node is a physical dedicated server configured to create and run virtual machines using a hypervisor...
The online thing One of the most important things in the online world is the humble dedicated server. It may have many shapes and forms, different hardware specs and capabilities but its role is the same. A dedicated server is an online machine leased to a single customer with full access to the available resources and not shared with anyone else. This is alot more flexible than a shared hosting...
Mount that drive You just got a brand new shiny USB stick for moving things around your devices fast and easy but your NAS or home server does not see the newly plugged in device. In this tutorial, you will learn how to mount it as folder in the linux OS using the console commands. Find the drive Run the following command to display the attached disks: fdisk -l The output should look similar to...
Yet another linux desktop Following up on the RDP tutorial found here , there is yet another Linux flavor available for a smooth desktop experience: Lubuntu (LXDE) . The install process is basically the same with a few minor changes. Make sure to use Ubuntu 16 or 18 as the OS in order to make sure this actually works. After logging in with Putty via SSH, run the following command to update Ubuntu...