by Mohsin Sumar | Jan 9, 2021 | Server Management, SSH, Tips & Tricks
Earlier this week, I was presented with a challenge to copy over a website that wasn’t having a control panel like cPanel; and moving it over to cPanel web hosting service provided by Extreme Web Technologies. The traditional approach for such type of migration...
by Mohsin Sumar | Sep 20, 2020 | Security, Web Hosting, Wordpress
WordPress websites are commonly compromised to do a variety of malicious behaviours so there isn’t a one fix solution to all the WordPress problems out there. I hope that this quick read helps someone sometime to clear off left behind files from a recent...
by Mohsin Sumar | Jul 24, 2020 | Extreme Web Technologies, Web Hosting, Web Presence
DNS is short for domain name system. It’s at the core of every domain without which nothing on the internet as you know it would work. Every time you browse the web, send an email or make audio/video calls – it relies on the DNS system to know where to send your...
by Mohsin Sumar | Jul 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
A web address, also called a domain name, is the starting point of a web presence. They’re registered for minimum duration of 1 year upto 5 to 10 years in depending on the extension. A dot TZ can be registered for 5 years where as generic ones like a dot COM can be...
by Mohsin Sumar | Aug 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Recently, I needed to generate 4 digit random PIN number. Instead of exporting things out, making changes and doing things manually, or writing some code to do it — I decided to just use MySQL itself for the job. UPDATE contacts SET code = concat(...
by Mohsin Sumar | Oct 15, 2018 | Security
Over the past few weeks, some people have received emails from themselves claiming that a hacker has stolen their passwords and hacked their webcam, threatening to expose your data, as well as browsing habits if you do not remit to them some bitcoins valued between...
by Mohsin Sumar | Oct 12, 2018 | Words of Wisdom
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” — Peter Drucker
by Mohsin Sumar | Sep 30, 2018 | Extreme Web Technologies, Security, Tutorials, Web Hosting, Web Presence
Your website should most likely be labelled with “Not Secure”. What does it mean, and how do you get it fixed? BackgroundNearly two years ago, Google announced that Chrome would eventually start marking all sites that are not encrypted with HTTPS as...
by Mohsin Sumar | Apr 28, 2017 | Words of Wisdom
“Don’t be afraid of being different, be afraid of being the same as everyone else.” – Unknown.
by Mohsin Sumar | Apr 26, 2017 | Security, Server Management, Web Hosting
The very first email was sent about 45 years ago, in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. Tomlinson is internationally known and credited as the inventor of email. The Internet Hall of Fame in account of his work commented “His email program brought about a complete...
