We are living in a world of competition. Everyone wants to outdo and outsmart the other. This therefore makes competitors look for any loophole to take advantage. One of the ways corporates and businesses have not realized and haven’t taken enough precautions; is securing domain name extensions of your primary domain name. For example, my …
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How To Transfer a Domain Name in Kenya (Update)
Wondering how to transfer a domain name in Kenya? But let’s back up a little bit, how did you get here? I mean, when you started a website or purchased that domain, you knew things were going to be great. I can still see the optimism in your eyes and you can still remember how …
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What is an SSL Certificate and how do you get it.
A Secure Socket Layer usually abbreviated as SSL a digital certificate that encrypts data exchanged between a web browser and a web server. SSL Certificates normally allows private and sensitive data to be transmitted without interferences from third parties. An SSL Certificate usually contains the following data: – Certificate holder’s name, serial number and expiration …
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What is a domain name server and how does it work?
Domain Name Server usually abbreviated as DNS is the system used to convert word-based addresses of systems to their corresponding numerical IP address (Internet Protocol). For example https://www.truehost.co.ke to its equivalent IP Address (192.185.2.39).The translation of word based addresses to their corresponding IP addresses is important since that’s what computers use to identify each other …
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.htaccess and its importance
.htacess is a filed used by Apache Web server software to effect various configurations to the directory where it is located. It is a hidden file in unix based systems (since its name starts with a dot), and is placed in the root of the directory in which it is supposed to alter the configurations …