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December 28, 2007

Lunarpages FTP/TLS Fiasco and Conclusion

Filed under: Web hosting lounge, Web hosting solution — Administrator @ 3:23 pm
Posted about 2 years and 7 months ago

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Introduction



Lunarpages is one of the largest web hosting companies in the U.S. The hosting company claims that there are more than 100,000 websites hosted by Lunarpages.

Lunarpages lets the users of Basic Hosting and Business Hosting plans access the FTP server through Transport Layer Security (TLS). It’s an unauthenticated root certificate. But it’s way more secure than the ordinary file transfer protocol (FTP), through which FTP client sends login information in a simple form without encryption on either side. (more…)

December 24, 2006

VTC for Web Hosting: Using htaccess

Filed under: Video tutorials — seo @ 12:02 am
Posted about 3 years and 7 months ago

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If your website runs Apache HTTP Server (1.2 or higher) on a Unix machine, you may want to utilize mod_rewrite module. This Apache module is quite useful. It can be used to redirect users who arrive at one URL to another. Actually, cyber criminals and sex-related websites often use this redirect function by setting up multiple domains and attracting visitors with different preferences and redirecting them to a single one.

This video tutorial, at first, shows a simple example of using Apache’s htaccess module. We use it to redirect visitors at one address to another. We also show briefly how we can apply this module to remove www from our URL. Furthermore, you can use the htaccess module to block specific IP addresses. In fact, we happen to use it a lot. (more…)