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Web Server Management
The program that handles your Web pages on the "back end" is called a Web server. Scalability, security and speed are all impacted by the Web server. Like the way your computer stores files on its hard drive, the Web server stores files which makes up a website.
Server configuration is critical to protect your website from third-party tampering. It is vital that your Web server supports security protocols like Secure Socket Layer (SSL) which encrypts messages. Through SSL, any sensitive transaction which was made from your Web server is translated into a secret code which is difficult to crack.Other Security protocols are Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (SHTTP), Private Communication Technology (PCT) and Internet Protocol Security.
Why Content Management is Important
One of the biggest contributors to a successful website is providing new and enticing content. Adding new content (including images and videos) that is relevant to your website is a great way to increase your search engine positioning and to keep visitors returning to your site. Providing new content for a website can be time consuming because procedures are involved.
However, many of these time consuming steps can be skipped by adding a Content Management System (CMS) to your website. What is CMS? A Content Management System is computer application used to create, edit and publish computer files, images, videos, audio files, documents and web content to be published on the Internet. In other words it is used to manage your website content including its files, storage, and publications. This system allows updates on your site to be done very fast and easily. Recently, this feature has become very inexpensive to implement, making this not only practical for large companies, but also for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Website Security: What can we do about it?
Is your website vulnerable to hackers?
Everyday, several high profile websites are hacked as a result of a poor security practices on websites and web servers. This is the situation wherein we need to consider various factors of web security in order to ensure the safety of sensitive data such as customer’s credit card details and personal information.
Every year around the world, several high profile websites are hacked. If they can hack into the Department of Defense website, what chance does your site have to stay protected? More often than not, websites are hacked as a result of poor security practices on websites and web servers. You need to be aware of the various factors of web security to protect sensitive data like customer’s credit card and other personal information.
All programs that are running on the Internet are prone to security risks so it’s absolutely correct to say that there is no place safe from hacking on the Internet.Spammers and hackers often target delicate corporate information in order to gain access of the company’s financial information. Sometimes they are simply vandals trying to ruin a company’s reputation or cause havoc. They’re using web applications such as login pages, contact forms and shopping carts to gain access to the back end databases. It’s sad to know that these unethical acts are committed by developers and programmers who are either hypnotized by the lust of money or mean spirited individuals who have no respect to others.