Many companies wonder whether Private Cloud or Public Cloud is the best option for their business. On the one hand, a private cloud environment, like those we design at Stackscale, offers the best balance between performance, costs and scalability. On the other hand, a public cloud environment usually allows to deploy and scale resources at
In this article we are going to explain how to install Plesk on Linux step by step. You will also find a section about how to update the Plesk control panel on Linux and a list of the operating system and virtualization systems compatible with Plesk. How to install Plesk on Linux Plesk is one
Accelerating a website load speed by installing Varnish Cache on Linux is a simple way to improve SEO and increase visibility. In this post we are going to explain how to install Varnish Cache step by step on different Linux distributions. Reasons to install Varnish Cache for web acceleration Loading a web page as fast
DDoS attacks aim to take down online services by flooding them with an enormous amount of incoming traffic, originating from multiple sources. This type of cyberattack can have many negative effects on business profits, as well as damage a company’s reputation. Let’s see what a DDoS attack consists of and how to protect services and
The Polkit Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, PwnKit, has been hidden in plain view for more than a decade — 12 years to be precise — in Linux. The vulnerability was identified by Qualys’ researchers in November, 2021. Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities, such as PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034), allow unprivileged local users to get root privileges. The PwnKit vulnerability was
Migrating your infrastructure from on-premise to Private Cloud will allow you to focus on your core business, without wasting efforts and money on managing and maintaining your own in-house IT infrastructure. Unlike most Public Cloud solutions, a private cloud environment, as those we design at Stackscale, allows more specific and custom configurations, making the migration
Grafana’s versions 8.3.4 and 7.5.13 were released on January 18th, 2022. These two new versions include some patches to fix important security issues for all installations of Grafana 7.5.x and 8.x. These versions are only vulnerable in case that the administrator has used “OAuth forwarding” for data sources and uses API keys. OAuth Identity Token
CentOS Linux was launched in 2004 and has been regularly updated until the discontinuation of CentOS 8 in 2021. Distributed under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), it stood out as a stable, predictable and easy to use Linux distribution, with a big community supporting it. CentOS is short for “Community Enterprise Operating System”.
Zero Trust is an approach to the design and implementation of IT systems based on the principle of “never trusting, always verifying” every device. In this security model, inherent trust in the network is removed; no matter whether a device is within a corporate LAN or whether it has already been verified before. Every request-response
The terms “container” and “containerization” are borrowed from the shipping industry. While in the shipping industry containers are used to physically separate different cargoes, in IT, virtual containers package the code, config files, libraries and dependencies an application needs to run. A container is another form of virtualization, as virtual machines are, and Docker and
