Insights for Tag: Applications

Simplifying SSL: Understanding The Basics

This is the first in our series of insights which seek to explore and simplify the topic of SSL (and TLS) in the context of web application hosting. What is SSL? In the simplest terms, SSL and TLS pro...

Emergency Website Migration to New Host – Fast, Secure Transfer

Hosting Emergency? Migrate with Pipe Ten Your website or application is frequently not just a representation of your brand; it’s the core of your business operations. These digital assets, from ...

Behind the Vault: Secret Management Choices

Protecting sensitive information has become a top priority in today’s digital landscape. Secret management software offers tools to help avoid plain text secrets and unencrypted storage of secre...

Critical Forminator Plugin Flaw: Unauthenticated File Deletion (CVE-2025-6463)

Should I be worried? Well, this vulnerability is a biggy, with over 400,000 installations and allowing arbitrary file uploads, there will be a lot of compromised WordPress sites that use the affected...

Azure AD vs Microsoft Entra ID: What Changed & What It Means

Microsoft has decided to rename Azure Active Directory (AAD) to Microsoft Entra ID (As of this post’s writing, no acronym has been offered by Microsoft). This change reinforces Microsoft’s...

Is it just me or is my website slow?

We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in a meeting, and someone casually mentions, “Is it just me, or is our website slow?“. The room goes silent for a moment, and everyone star...

WordPress HTTP Headers Plugin Vulnerability – Security Risk

WordPress, as prevalent as it is, running a massive 43% of the websites on the internet, will always have baddies poking a prodding for ways to put their malicious code/redirects/links/spam/emailing o...

Let’s Encrypt Android 7 Support Ended in 2024 – What to Do

TLDR; Let’s Encrypt, the free SSL provider, has announced it’ll stop issuing and allow the intermediate SSL certificate to expire during 2024*, which enabled continued support for Android ...

Proactive Application Monitoring: Performance, Capacity & Trends

Monitoring beyond failure When discussing monitoring, the focus is often only on how we detect things that have failed and how quickly we can find them, but this is a small part of monitoring and is w...

Reverse Proxy vs Load Balancer: Which Should You Choose?

A load balancer is a device or software that distributes network or application traffic across a number of backend servers. Its primary purpose is to enhance the reliability and performance of applica...

Independent Web Hosting Provider – Reliable, Personal & Trusted

We still do web hosting! We love it when customers pay attention to changes we make and provide feedback; there’s always something new to learn! It’s often difficult to take a moment and c...

Case Study: Supporting growth with cloud repatriation to on-premise infrastructure

This study explores areas where the utilisation of on-premise compute power is preferable to public cloud computing, looking at a scenario where our client brsk in partnership with Pipe Ten Hosting ch...