Microsoft’s SQL Server Reporting Services is a popular Business Intelligence framework. Through SSRS, administrators can analyze, collate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources into easy to consume web-based reports. It is common for …
F5’s BigIP is one of the world’s premier load balancing platforms. Under the BigIP umbrella, there are many product options which act as plugins to TMOS (the underlying linux-based operating system upon which BigIP is built). From a load balancing …
HomeAssistant is an extremely popular self-hosted platform for integrating with an impressively large selection of smart home devices. HomeAssistant allows users to create rules called “Automations” that trigger on various conditions and execute …
FTPS has always been a topic of much confusion among systems administrators. It has also largely fallen out of favor in deference to SFTP which has fewer networking requirements. But what is the difference between FTPS and SFTP? What about FTPS is …
Instant Messaging is a popular method of communication both at home and in the workplace. It is not always easy however to ensure that communication remains private. One of the best ways to guarantee message privacy is to both self-host the …
Microsoft’s .NET framework is a collection of tools and libraries accessible from various “.NET Programming Languages” used by developers to build applications on the Windows Platform. ASP.NET, which runs natively on IIS (Microsoft’s web server …
Two of the most important considerations for any website owner are security and speed. Historically, these goals have been ever at odds. One of the most effective techniques for insuring a consistent experience for end users is a caching layer. …
OCSP Stapling is an exciting technology supported by all recent servers and clients that with just a few minutes of your time will allow you to reduce the network load on your servers and provide faster load times for your sites and services.
Generating a CSR can be performed in a lot of different ways. However, only the Certificates MMC comes installed by default on Microsoft Windows clients and servers. It can be a little finicky at first, but once you understand the underpinnings of …
SQL Server is a popular database platform choice for database-driven applications. Based on interpreting TSQL, Microsoft’s proprietary dialect of SQL, SQL Server facilitates remote connections to your structured data. Unfortunately, SQL Server is …
An authenticated SSL/TLS reverse proxy is a powerful way to protect your application from attack. Both users and bad actors first connect to the proxy (which should live in your organization’s DMZ) and need to provide some form of authentication …
Previously, we took at look at how reverse (both terminating and non-terminating) are handled in the Linux world. In Windows though, we have two very viable options supported by Microsoft without using any third party software. These are …
HAProxy is an incredibly versatile reverse proxy that’s capable of acting as both an HTTP(S) proxy like above, and a straight TCP proxy which allows you to proxy SSL connections as-is without decrypting and re-encrypting them (terminating). It …
Reverse proxies accept connections on behalf of a server coming from a client. They are the opposite of forward proxies, which accept connections on behalf of a client destined for a server. They’re incredibly useful in two main cases: tightly …
There are a few options when it comes to securing your Magento store and in this article we will cover some of the best practices to do so. We will also look at our options when it comes to Multiple Stores with or without different domains in your …
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