Results for ‘Secure Shell’

The Benefits of Jailing SSH Users
Friday, April 13th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Yes, SSH users should be jailed, but only within the confines of your server’s virtual prison. SSH, which stands for Secure Shell, is a tool that gives users command-line access to a server. Those technical savvy web hosting users who...

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Want Security? Abandon FTP for SFTP
Monday, December 19th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Security through obscurity rarely works as well as one would hope. Instead, you run the risk of being hit by an anonymous hacker who found you through a random vulnerability scan. In the old days FTP was the best option...

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Do You Need SSH with Shared Hosting?
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE One the benefits of a shared hosting account is that the operation of the server, by and large, is managed by the web host. Your website itself is still your responsibility, but pretty much everything else is up to your...

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Using SSH for Secure File Transfer
Thursday, September 8th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Transferring files to and from your web server is one of the most important tasks you will do. Although most websites these days have content management systems that allow you to create dynamic content from within your web browser, there...

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5 Basic SSH Security Tips
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE SSH (Secure Shell) is designed with security in mind.  In the old days, people often used Telnet to connect to their servers, but that was back when servers were down the hall, not over the vast expanse of the uncharted...

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