Hosting and Servers

Richard Deeming20-Nov-17 2:22

Richard Deeming

20-Nov-17 2:22

Back in the dim and distant past of 2014, Troy Hunt recommended DNSimple over GoDaddy for various reasons:
Troy Hunt: Moving from GoDaddy to DNSimple – an illustrated journey[^]

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C-P-User-319-Nov-17 2:53

C-P-User-3

19-Nov-17 2:53

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
you may get more responses in the Lounge.

Would it be appropriate to post the actual question here, and a link to it over there in the lounge ?

Richard MacCutchan19-Nov-17 3:13

19-Nov-17 3:13

Why make things complicated?

How to purchase SSL in any wordpress website

Member 145548398-Aug-19 21:18

Member 14554839

8-Aug-19 21:18

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Member 1341814119-Sep-17 7:30

Member 13418141

19-Sep-17 7:30

I am a student learning digital marketing,
I have created an e-commerce website

I want to know how to put SSL on any website and how to purchase it.
tell me everything about SSL

Re: How to purchase SSL in any wordpress website

jschell29-Sep-17 7:31

jschell

29-Sep-17 7:31

Member 13418141 wrote:
tell me everything about SSL

Err...no?

But googling would probably be a good place to start. First to learn about SSL in general and second how to specifically set it up for your specific server.

Re: How to purchase SSL in any wordpress website

Member 134442793-Oct-17 19:29

Member 13444279

3-Oct-17 19:29

you can buy SSL From Godaddy use coupon code so that you get the discount

Re: How to purchase SSL in any wordpress website

majormans5-Jul-18 22:16

majormans

5-Jul-18 22:16

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral

are there any concurrent port range testing tool?

maze314-Sep-17 23:51

maze3

14-Sep-17 23:51

I am trying to test concurrent connections across a range of ports to check for concurrency network issues.

most tools im finding just do single client, single port checking, like the hw-group hercules.

apache was mentioned, rather not need to set that up.

windows server (2012).

any ideas?

thanks

Re: are there any concurrent port range testing tool?

jschell16-Sep-17 6:31

jschell

16-Sep-17 6:31

Not sure what that means.

Networks are serial of course. They handle multiple requests, but serially.

Presumably "concurrent connections" means open sockets - perhaps because you are not sure that the server is keeping them open? Or perhaps because firewall(s) might be dropping requests if limits are exceeded?

If you are not sure which, then if it was me, I would want to check with the actual server rather than a general tool. Since the server application itself could be the problem rather than the network and/or firewalls.

Rather simple to write code to do database (relational) connection testing. Just open connection and do simple do nothing query in a loop. Then wrap that in a loop for multiple connections.

More difficult for modern usage besides database since it is usually ReST (http) because the connection closes after the request. Thus what you really need to do is identify a rest call that takes a while. And really if you cannot do that they you need to put a Rest call in place that does take a while. Perhaps having it do nothing but return ok and have a sleep for 5 seconds or so before it returns to the ok. I will note that you could write http code that would keep the connection open but that is not normal and as such seems suspect to test in the first place.

If you can't control the server then you are going to need to bombard it with requests and that could incorrectly report results for normal firewall rules put into place to prevent DNS attacks.

Any tool of any sort requires understanding, configuration and even some messing about to get it up and running correctly.

Also why a "range of ports". Servers do not typically support more than several ports and functionality and even rules are different. Certainly shouldn't be doing performance testing on an app unless you know what that app does.

Just a warning, 'port scanning' is something that network infrastructures will flag and anomalous behavior and if it was me I would not do that unless I had it in writing (actual paper) from a superior that that is what they wanted done. That can lead to civil and criminal penalties and you want to be protected.

Code signing in cloud environment

Jb3void22-Jun-17 1:46

Jb3void

22-Jun-17 1:46

Hello,

Posting this right here as I belive that this is a generic issue.

Right now if you do app development in most cases you are also code signing the app, using your favorite tool and a private key.
Since February, due to Microsoft adopting a new set of standards, issuers are obliged to deliver the digital certificates on hardware mediums aka USB tokens

Minimum Requirements for Code Signing

While this works great for physical servers, on cloud environments supporting a USB interface is not as practical, for example Amazon does not support it, thus making the below use case unfeasible.

Server receives a request for a particular client app, based on the request param's server changes the app's resources then code signs it, replying with the final result.

Any opinions on this are welcomed.

Re: Code signing in cloud environment

jschell19-Jul-17 7:44

jschell

19-Jul-17 7:44

Jb3void wrote:
Right now if you do app development in most cases you are also code signing the app

Not me. I figure if they have access to the server such that they can replace components then everything is already compromised. Not to mention that if they can do so in a useful manner then I would suspect an inside job as well (which the vast majority of breaches are anyways.)

Jb3void wrote:
Server receives a request for a particular client app, based on the request param's server changes the app's resources then code signs it, replying with the final result.

Not sure I understand what that scenario is suggesting.

Code signing involves using a certificate when the code is built (part of the CM build process) to provide security when the application runs. It allows the application to verify resources that it loads, such as a library.

That is a limited scope solution. All that is required is that a local machine (not cloud) is using for the final step of the process before delivery.

Your statement above suggests you are doing something in the normal client message handling scheme. That would be outside the scope of what I laid out.

Now I can see that if you are using a cloud server to do your builds then that would appear to be a problem for normal code signing. But your description would not seem to jive with that.

Re: Code signing in cloud environment

Nathan Minier24-Jul-17 2:30

Nathan Minier

24-Jul-17 2:30

You'll need some form of middleware (such as ActiveIdentity) that will provide certificates from an external token and make them accessible to network connections.

I'm afraid that I don't have experience with your particular use case, but I'm sure that if you follow up with the issuer or with AWS you will be able to get a product recommendation.

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How to do like this?

felixjrz19853-Jun-17 14:39

3-Jun-17 14:39

I registered an account here in codeproject in a hope that i can upload file, like an xml file below:

http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Uploads/1740717/update.xml

How can i have a file, such as .xml file uploaded to codeproject so that i can use it's 'hotlink' like above... i am a newbie

Richard MacCutchan3-Jun-17 21:10

3-Jun-17 21:10

What happened when you tried to upload it?

felixjrz19854-Jun-17 2:36

4-Jun-17 2:36

Thank you Richard. My main problem is how to upload here in codeproject. I just want to make my own .xml file uploaded just like the link I previously posted. Im a newbie pls bear with me

Richard MacCutchan4-Jun-17 3:30

4-Jun-17 3:30

Your main problem is that you have still not explained what you have tried, and what did not work.

felixjrz19854-Jun-17 15:55

4-Jun-17 15:55

I am rephrasing my problem...
I have an .xml file that i want to [save remotely, store remotely, host remotely... i don't know the real word for it]. I just want to imitate this one [the link itself, and not the content]:
"http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Uploads/1740717/update.xml"

Say i have a file myfile.xml and want to get a "link" that literally look like:
"http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Uploads/1234567/myfile.xml"

where here in codeproject i can do that?

Richard MacCutchan4-Jun-17 21:15

4-Jun-17 21:15

Use the menu drop down at your username, near the top right of the frame, and select "My Uploads".

Peter_in_27804-Jun-17 21:29

Peter_in_2780

4-Jun-17 21:29

Ummm. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought one needs pretty heavy privileges to be allowed uploads. You and I have, but OP hasn't, as far as I can tell from looking at profile/privileges.

Cheers,
Peter

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

Richard MacCutchan5-Jun-17 1:54

5-Jun-17 1:54

You are probably correct. But quite frankly this is not a particularly difficult issue to resolve for anyone with a little gumption.

Eddy Vluggen4-Jun-17 23:42

Eddy Vluggen

4-Jun-17 23:42

You'll need a webhost for that, which codeproject isn't.

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hotlinking?

felixjrz19851-Jun-17 0:02