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DDoS Attacks: Meaning and Mitigation

If you are someone who spends a fair amount of time on the internet, then you may not be oblivious to DDoS. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a malicious attempt to disrupt the service of a server or a network by sending packets of request from a network of botnets. The idea is to flood the network with fake traffic to deny legitimate users to go through. It is used by hackers and hacktivists to sabotage a company’s website for their malevolent gains.

How Does it Work?

The hackers compromise hundreds and thousands of computers or IoT devices, turning them into botnets. These botnets are then used to create fake traffic to a particular IP address flooding them with requests to a point where legitimate users are denied the service. It becomes very difficult to guard against a DDoS attack as the requests are distributed across many systems.

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by Harris Reel — February 1, 2020 in Web Hosting

Easily Start a Website for Anything

There is a number of reasons you might want to start a website. Perhaps you simply want to get your name out there on the web. You might want to start an online business, or just run a blog or information site that runs Google ads for profit. You can start a website to run your affiliate sites so that you can make more money with one website instead of several. Whatever the reason, it is easy to start a website for anything.

The Website to be about

The first thing you have to do is decide what you want your website to be about. What is the purpose of your website? This will make a difference in how your website is designed, and what site features you want to include. If you are writing a blog, design can be very simple and you do not need any features other … Read the rest

by Harris Reel — January 25, 2020 in Cool Graphic Design

Editing Your Website

Editing your website may not be as difficult as you think; if you can edit a Word document then you have the skills necessary to edit your website. Using the skills of a professional web designer can become quite expensive. If all your website requires are some basic changes to the text or images currently present you can make the necessary edits yourself using a word processing program such as Microsoft Word or Works.

Editing the contents

Many word processing programs that are currently available operate in the same way. In order to edit your website, you need to have a copy of the website or HTML file saved to your computer. Once you have located the file on your computer, your next step will be to open the word processing program you will be using and then open the website file. Now you will need to choose the text … Read the rest

by Harris Reel — January 19, 2020 in Retro Graphic Design

A New Online Venture and Complete Web Development

Every company that is planning to do business online has already come to the conclusion that a website is needed, and that website has to do more than just occupy a URL. It has to be the company’s 24 hr a day sales representative, ready to do business and to close the sale.

But getting a website that delivers the results and function in the manor you imagine takes more than a vision, it takes a solid web programming and design skills. Here are some of the services your website may require that a professional web development company can deliver:

Graphic Design, SEO/SEM (online marketing), Custom Software Development, E-Commerce Solutions, Intranet / Extranet Applications, Content Management Systems, Web Portals, Lead Generation Systems, Microsites, Flash Development, Identity Branding and Website Hosting.

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by Harris Reel — December 10, 2019 in Online Graphic Designer

What To Look For In Web Development Services

Most people don’t know where to start whenever they want to develop a website. It can be fairly confusing because there is quite a bit of technical knowledge that must be known to make everything work. This is why many people use web development services to help get their websites operational taking advantage of someone else’s expertise to get the job done. If you are considering using website development services, there are a few things that you should be looking for.

First of all, price is going to be an issue. If it is way out of your budget, you can’t work with that company. Sometimes the costs are very reasonable and other times they are so high that they are only intended for large companies to be using the service. Before asking too many questions or agreeing to anything, find out what the costs are going to be.

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by Harris Reel — December 8, 2019 in Publication Designs