Have you ever visited a website that uses https:// in the URL rather than http://? If you think not you should have another look at the URL for this page… there it is! You have been using SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, without even knowing it. So what is SSL and why does it matter? SSL stand for Secure Sockets Layer and it is a technology that facilitates an encrypted connection between a web server or host, and a web browser or…
Often it can be beneficial to force your website visitors access your site using an SSL-encrypted connection (https) rather than the standard http connection. These reasons could be for security or to ensure that your site is meeting the recently updated Google ranking rules where your ranking will be negatively affected by user not assessing you site via https. whatever your need, the following guide will should you how to ensure that all of your visitors are forced to use…
If you ever find that you cannot connect to a particular site of indeed any site on the internet due to this specific error DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG, then we have some suggestions to help you fix it. This type of error is definitely DNS related and it likely to be a local issue with your router or computers IP address. The first option is to restart your router. This is not a reset, just restart it by switching it off and waiting at least…
There can be a few reasons for this issue, the top two in our experience are unexpected changes to your router configuration or your hosting provider has blocked your IP address. The latter is more likely if only you, and anyone on the same WiFi network as you, suddenly loses access to your site or sites that are hosted by the same company. This can be a automatic trigger resulting in some event that the system interpreted as an attack…
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. You have probably heard of FTP and it is very likely that you have used it without even realising, but do you know what FTP is? Well, you’re still reading this so I guess the answer to that question is either a flat out no or a maybe, kinda, sorta but tell me anyway. FTP is a safe, efficient and flexible way to move (or transfer) data (or files) from one computer to another using a…
A client is a piece of computer hardware or software that accesses a service made available by a server. The server is often (but not always) on another computer system, in which case the client accesses the service by way of a network.
There are many different types of servers, for example: File server: a computer and storage device dedicated to storing files. Any user on the network can store files on the server. Print server: a computer that manages one or more printers, and a network server is a computer that manages network traffic.
A domain name is basically a Web site address. For example, “learningglue.com” is the address of the Learning Glue Web site; it’s also the site’s domain name. A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator and consists of the following components: scheme://domain A scheme refers to the protocol used to access a resource on the Internet, typically this will be either http or https. So the Learning Glue URL is: https://learningglue.com For completeness, a domain includes a domain name extension that is called…
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