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Speaking of network information, including internet protocols or IP addresses, is one of the important parts of the Internet. Similarly, ASN is a related term in this regard that you must know if you wish to expand the networking horizons of your business. As IP addresses and internet-connected devices proliferate these days due to cyber vulnerabilities, provisions such as ASN have become more important than ever. To handle the enormous amount of everyday data communications on the Internet, regulatory groups like the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and others have transitioned from the previous system, IPv4, to IPv6....

Before proceeding, please read the following text: What did you get? Nothing? Yes, that’s how you feel in front of your computer when it shows nothing but black. Helpless. It leaves little room for troubleshooting. A technical novice may try to throw the machine outside the window. But wait, most often, the culprit is easy to pinpoint. And, the remedy is far too easy to dial a technician. First, let’s discuss the possible reasons behind this, and then we’ll move to the solutions....

The keyword here is managed, as dedicated servers are available both as managed and unmanaged. To illustrate better, here’s a quick rundown of what managed to host is and why it can benefit you. What is “managed” hosting? Let’s say that your business website is using Drupal for content management and an NGINX server with MongoDB for the backend. This is a fairly common setup for high-end business websites but still infrequent enough that you might have to learn about each technology individually....

Although there’s no harm in using a text-based HTML editor while making some changes to a site, you will need to enter the code manually. This might not be a big concern for pro-coders but can be difficult for beginners or amateurs. Also, this would consume more time and effort. And in this highly competitive world, you need advanced, more efficient tools to complete your task. Therefore, the popularity of WYSIWYG editors is soaring high....

Currently, when each of us has hectic schedules and fully occupies timetables, it is tough to have time to purchase the items for cooking. Most of us have to look for precooked or readymade food from outside to fill our bellies. This alternative is not always relatively healthy since you cannot determine when the vendor made the food and the quality of the items used. The hygiene of the place where the cook cooked the food is also uncertain....

Only actionable and data-driven decisions can ensure effective management and business growth today. Intuition and accumulated experiences are not enough to make such decisions. Contrary to the old days when organizations did not have sufficient data, now they are drowning in it. If you are also overwhelmed with a huge amount of data but still want to come up with the right decision out of these, it is time to choose a business intelligence solution....

You need to integrate business, product development, and product operations in one single workflow to reduce waste, increase product security, and get maximum revenue out of the product. A business can only do that when it adopts the BizDevOps concept for product development. Most businesses in various industries were completely siloed before the digital transformation. After the digital adaptation, companies reduced the disconnected approach to any project. However, digital transformation also added many tools, apps, and workflows to different departments of a business according to their specialization....

Why Infrastructure as Code? Traditionally, if we look back when you wanted a server, you would raise a ticket, and someone from the ops team would create a VM instance or order a physical server. This could be using scripts, point and click, or even manual install. And then, with every request, there would be more VMs, for DNS, mail, databases, and so on. And then, there were continuous updates to the Operating systems, web servers, JVMs, and everything else....

With digital transformation, companies are now taking all the measures to effectively connect with their customers and resolve their issues with the motive of customer satisfaction. As a result, the companies use chat and helpdesk software or online programs that can help them reach out to their customers quickly. Under such programs, the website partners with brands to promote their products and obtain commission. It helps in maintaining and building a long-lasting relationship with customers....

If you plan to launch a website for your business, you would have an ideal website in mind. A review of such a website’s complete history and evolution will guide you throughout your website development process. However, it is possible if you have access to its step-by-step evolution. The Wayback Machine is the platform that plays a vital role in offering you such historical information about any website. With the Wayback Machine, you can explore how the leader websites looked once upon a time when they started their journey....

Supply chain management (SCM) is the lifeline of companies as it comprises everything from planning, control, execution, and managing how resources flow into and out of the organization. Since SCM also involves a company’s financial capital and data, it demands efficient resource management in sourcing raw materials, production, storage, and other related logistical components. This complex inventory management process comprises stock-taking, returning defective products, and other order-related issues. While new technology keeps transforming daily business procedures in SCM, the need for accurate delivery and real-time tracking systems makes supply chain management a field desirous of ongoing technological innovation....

Significant growth has been visible in the last decade when it comes to online learning and certifications. Due to the pandemic, people were forced to improve their skills through online media. Even before the pandemic, the markets for online education were forecasted to reach $350 billion by 2025. It is noteworthy that skills are more valuable than degrees. But a certification from a trusted authority will put you in a better place....

Why Jenkins Pipeline? Continuous Delivery (CD) is an essential part of DevOps Lifecycle. It makes sure that the software/application developers are creating is always production-ready. For this to happen, whenever the code gets updated, it needs to be built, tested, and deployed continuously. This is where Jenkins Pipeline comes into the picture. In DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is achieved through Jenkins Pipeline. Using Jenkins Pipeline for CD helps to deliver the software with faster and frequent releases....

Hosts files act as the local DNS servers. But before going further, let’s check out this incident involving Jack. Jack was a website admin at a regional eCommerce store in Toronto, Canada. He was asked to ensure the transfer to a different web host goes smoothly. He did it perfectly, and the site was live soon after DNS changes were made. The only issue was missing images from a significant number of products....

IPv6 has a performance advantage over IPv4. It can help to decrease the page load time from 25ms to 300ms. An interesting report by SUCURI shows 16% of the top 1000 sites in the world support IPv6 and 7% of the top 1 million sites. If not already, it would be good to enable on your site. Pre-requisite – you have to ensure IPv6 is enabled on the OS level....

Chef is a configuration management tool based on ruby. It is used to automate the management of configurations across all the nodes in the cluster and maintain consistency. There are three major components of Chef. Chef server Workstation Nodes All the configurations are managed from workstations and later pushed on to the chef-server. Chef server is the centralized store of all the infrastructure configurations. Knife is a command-line tool present on a workstation that is used to interact with Chef Server....

Changing WebLogic domain name is possible with modifying certain files under your domain. This, I tested in a development environment and worked well for me. In this exercise – I have renamed from base_domain to new_domain Take complete backup of your domain Copy old domain name folder to new domain name Search all files which contain base_domain in newly copied folder Modify base_domain to new_domain in all above files. You can use sed to modify or manually you can do one by one....

Learn how to safeguard yours. Let’s face it: when it comes to the topic of web security, most of us prefer to live in denial. “I’m too small to be hacked,” “I know I’m not that unlucky,” “We’ll see about it when I have more time” — there’s no end to the excuses we can cook up to evade the drudged, tedious toil of hardening your website security. Yes, even the thought of creating backups is enough to send us to sleep....

If your home or office’s ISP has slow nameservers or your server is performing lots of lookups, then you need a local caching DNS server. How will a caching DNS server help me? A caching DNS server works by performing all the DNS queries that your system makes and then saving, or caching, the results in memory. Once that the results are cached in memory any time that you make a duplicate request for a domain, the result will get served almost instantaneously from memory....

The battle for major Smartphone OSes has almost settled with the two prime candidates, Android & iOS: While the second half of 2021 had started to witness a gradual shift in favor of the Cupertino giant, a majority is nowhere on the horizon. iOS is still miles behind Android. And that will be the case for many years to come. In addition, it would be interesting to know that over 20% of iPhone users are planning a switch to Android....