11 Best Methods to Secure Windows Server

Microsoft’s Server platform can perform many different functions: Active Directory domain controllers, DHCP, DNS, IIS, File and Print, and on and on and on. The versatility of Microsoft server has also been counted among its weaknesses, because a large footprint means a large attack surface. However you’re using a Windows server, the rule of thumb should be to make that footprint as small as possible to operate as intended. So let’s get started how...

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How to Use Azure Command-line Tool for Data Transfer

AzCopy Command-Line Tool is used to transfer data to/from storage accounts and also from on-premise and storage accounts. Here, we will briefly explain some basic task using Azure command-line tool for data transfer.Follow the below steps to perform a simple data migration between a local-PC and Azure Storage.Download a BLOB from Azure:1) Download AzCopy Command-Line Tool from here and install it.2) Navigate to Azure storage container from Azure...

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Avoiding DDoS and a Brute Force Attack

The days of civil war is over instead, cyber warfare is in the latest trend. As we all know, nothing is secure if it is connected to the internet. One way or another way it is vulnerable to cyber-attacks. On the other hand, we are being part of an attack on someone else. If you haven’t got any of these yet, let me tell you, you are in luck. If you think your server is fully secured, I would ask you to download Nessus Professional and do an advanced...

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How to Tune and Speed up WordPress Site

A slow website means users will potentially leave your website before it even loads. Check your WordPress site speed through 365andup.com and take your report. Use the report to make WordPress specific optimizations that improve load times.A good page load time is below 2 seconds. Google recommends a >200ms response time.Studies shows that the average human attention span have reduced from 12 seconds to 7 seconds in the period 2000 to 2016. i.e...

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How To Install And Configure FreeNAS

FreeNAS is a free and open source storage operating system based on FreeBSD and the OpenZFS file system. You can easily create SAN and NAS storage using this OS. This blog explains how to install and configure FreeNAS.1. Download the ISO image from FreeNAS website and make it bootable using a USB or any other media.Website URL : http://www.freenas.org/download-freenas-release/2. Boot the OS from USB and you can see the first menu as shown in the...

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