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Ever wondered how you can host several websites on the same server without using virtual machines or complicated setups? Nginx virtual hosts is what you’re looking for.

This guide will look at how to configure a virtual web host on Ubuntu using the Nginx web server. Nginx is a highly performant web and reverse proxy server. It is lightweight, cross-platform, and open-source.

What Is a Virtual Host?

A virtual web host is a method of running or hosting several websites with different domain names on a single physical server or virtual machine.

Virtual hosting is widely used by website hosting companies in order to achieve economies of scale and to cater to multiple clients without spending much on dedicated server resources or hardware.

If you’ve ever used shared hosting, it is…

The best web hosting platforms ensure that your website will stay live as close to 100 per cent of the time as possible. They allow people to access your site quickly, wherever they are in the world, and keep your data safe and secure. A good website host also offers great customer support if you have problems, and all at an affordable and competitive price. In this guide, we’ve brought together the web hosting services to offer all this and more. 

Below, we present the very best web hosting services available today, and explain what each has to offer. Without drowning you in information or baffling you with jargon, we’ll give you the information you need to choose the best web hosting for your specific needs. 

A pernicious botnet used for cryptojacking has taken a major blow thanks to Google, whose free cloud-based services it relied on to propagate. The company has identified and removed thousands of accounts, hosted files and ad accounts that were being used to spread malicious files.

The botnet, Glupteba, has been operating for some months and was thought to be compromising thousands of people per day at its peak. The cryptojacking botnet quietly installs coin miners on Windows PCs and attempts to steal login credentials and authentication cookies. It spread via Google advertisements promising software cracks and phishing emails linking to malicious files hosted with Google Docs.

Notorious cryptomining and credential theft botnet crippled

Google cautions that…

The hack that exposed the details of 1.2 million GoDaddy customers has spread to six more web hosts. As Search Engine Journal reports, the six additional web hosts are all resellers of GoDaddy’s WordPress hosting services and include 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, and tsoHost.

Customers of at least two of these web hosting companies have been sent emails very similar to the one GoDaddy sent out regarding the security breach. The hack they experienced also targeted Managed WordPress accounts and managed to leak email addresses, customer numbers, WordPress Admin passwords, sFTP database usernames and passwords for active customers, and in some cases SSL private keys.

WordPress security plugin maker Wordfence confirmed the hack has spread to these web…

The GoDaddy data breach that affected up to 1.2 million web hosts has expanded to six more web hosts serving customers worldwide. The six additional compromised web hosts are resellers of GoDaddy’s hosting services. The extent of the intrusion appears to be the same as with GoDaddy, with matching dates of when the security intrusion began.

The six compromised web hosting providers are:

• 123Reg
• Domain Factory
• Heart Internet
• Host Europe
• Media Temple
• tsoHost

Precise Dates of Intrusion

The state of California published notification of a security breach submitted by GoDaddy on November 23, 2021.

In the California notification GoDaddy provided specific dates for the security intrusions.

The dates of intrusion…