Archive for 2023

For the past ten years, we have been using the familiar User Interface (UI) of our Service Centre to manage technical tasks, make administrative changes and everything in between. The functionality of our Service Centre has expanded steadily over the years, but the design and structure of these pages have never received the attention they deserve.

Today, we are excited to introduce the first step in the design project that aims to rectify this. We plan to enhance the user experience without compromising the functionality you already know. Because the Service Centre has grown to be a large system...

Planning to upgrade your Greenhost VPS? Great! Keeping a VPS's operating system up to date is important to make sure it keeps running smoothly and safely. OS updates bring new features, as well as security improvements, bug fixes, and resource-saving optimisations.

The latest versions of Debian and Ubuntu made a significant change in how some system files are stored. In some situations, you will need to do a quick and simple intervention before upgrading to Debian 12 Bookworm, releasing today (June 6th, 2023), or Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, as the upgrade will not work out of the box on a...

It is not uncommon to read in the news about websites being taken offline by malicious DDoS attacks. At Greenhost, we strive to provide the best protection for your website against such threats.

In this article you will learn about various types of DDoS and similar attacks, and what we do to protect your website.

DDoS attack, what is it?

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to take a website offline. The attacker floods the website's server or network connection with massive amounts of requests or data, overwhelming...