Fast WordPress Sites with Bluehost & Cloudflare Workers

WordPress is the most popular CMS (content management system) in the world, powering over a third of the top 10 million websites, according to W3Techs.

WordPress is an open source software project that many website service providers host for end customers to enable them to build WordPress sites and serve that content to visitors over the Internet.  For hosting providers, one of the opportunities and challenges is to host one version of WordPress on their infrastructure that is high performing for all their customers without modifying the WordPress code on a per customer basis.

Hosting providers are increasingly turning to Cloudflare’s Serverless Workers Platform to deliver high performance to their end customers by fixing performance issues at the edge while avoiding modifying code on an individual site basis.

One innovative WordPress hosting provider that Cloudflare has been working with to do this is Bluehost, a recommended web host by WordPress.org. In collaboration with Bluehost, Cloudflare’s Workers have been able to achieve a 40% performance improvement for those sites running Workers. Bluehost started with Cloudflare Workers code for Fast Google Fonts which in-lines the browser-specific font CSS and re-hosts the font files through the page origin. This removes the multiple Continue reading

Exploit found in Supermicro motherboards could allow for remote hijacking

A security group discovered a vulnerability in three models of Supermicro motherboards that could allow an attacker to remotely commandeer the server. Fortunately, a fix is already available.Eclypsium, which specializes in firmware security, announced in its blog that it had found a set of flaws in the baseboard management controller (BMC) for three different models of Supermicro server boards: the X9, X10, and X11.[ Also see: What to consider when deploying a next-generation firewall | Get regularly scheduled insights: Sign up for Network World newsletters ] BMCs are designed to permit administrators remote access to the computer so they can do maintenance and other updates, such as firmware and operating system patches. It’s meant to be a secure port into the computer while at the same time walled off from the rest of the server.To read this article in full, please click here

Flaw found in Supermicro motherboards could allow for remote hijacking

A security group discovered a vulnerability in three models of Supermicro motherboards that could allow an attacker to remotely commandeer the server. Fortunately, a fix is already available.Eclypsium, which specializes in firmware security, announced in its blog that it had found a set of flaws in the baseboard management controller (BMC) for three different models of Supermicro server boards: the X9, X10, and X11.[ Also see: What to consider when deploying a next-generation firewall | Get regularly scheduled insights: Sign up for Network World newsletters ] BMCs are designed to permit administrators remote access to the computer so they can do maintenance and other updates, such as firmware and operating system patches. It’s meant to be a secure port into the computer while at the same time walled off from the rest of the server.To read this article in full, please click here

Exploit found in Supermicro motherboards could allow for remote hijacking

A security group discovered a vulnerability in three models of Supermicro motherboards that could allow an attacker to remotely commandeer the server. Fortunately, a fix is already available.Eclypsium, which specializes in firmware security, announced in its blog that it had found a set of flaws in the baseboard management controller (BMC) for three different models of Supermicro server boards: the X9, X10, and X11.[ Also see: What to consider when deploying a next-generation firewall | Get regularly scheduled insights: Sign up for Network World newsletters ] BMCs are designed to permit administrators remote access to the computer so they can do maintenance and other updates, such as firmware and operating system patches. It’s meant to be a secure port into the computer while at the same time walled off from the rest of the server.To read this article in full, please click here

Flaw found in Supermicro motherboards could allow for remote hijacking

A security group discovered a vulnerability in three models of Supermicro motherboards that could allow an attacker to remotely commandeer the server. Fortunately, a fix is already available.Eclypsium, which specializes in firmware security, announced in its blog that it had found a set of flaws in the baseboard management controller (BMC) for three different models of Supermicro server boards: the X9, X10, and X11.[ Also see: What to consider when deploying a next-generation firewall | Get regularly scheduled insights: Sign up for Network World newsletters ] BMCs are designed to permit administrators remote access to the computer so they can do maintenance and other updates, such as firmware and operating system patches. It’s meant to be a secure port into the computer while at the same time walled off from the rest of the server.To read this article in full, please click here

What is AIGP – Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute? Where AIGP is used?

What is AIGP – Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute? Where AIGP is used? AIGP stands for Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute which is specified in RFC 7311. IGPs (Interior Gateway Protocols) are designed to run within a single administrative domain and they make path-selection decision based on metric value. This post is written based on the information in BGP …

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What is OTT – Over the Top mean? OTT Providers

What is OTT – Over the Top and How OTT Providers Work? Over the Top is a term used to refer to Content Providers. So, when you hear Over the Top Providers, they are Content Providers. Content can be any application, any service such as Instant messaging services (Skype, WhatsApp), streaming video services (YouTube, Netflix, …

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What is Carrier Hotel?

What is Carrier Hotel? Carrier Hotel is a Company that owns large buildings and rents out redundant power and floor space. And of course, attracts many Telco’s and Carrier networks to the building. Carrier Hotel often leases off large chunks of space to Service Providers or Enterprises. These companies operate the space as a datacenter …

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How to Find Singles Networking Events

Busy working singles usually don’t have time for many hobbies or social outings, let alone time to date. That’s where singles networking events come in handy. They may be social or work-related and could be used to form a romantic connection with someone or just to network professionally. 

Types of Singles Networking Events

Singles networking events run the gambit from purely social to purely business and everything in between. Here are some examples of types of singles networking events.

Parents without Partners

This is a group of single parents who share information and experiences on raising their children, dating with children, and raising children without a co-parent in the home. 

Single Professional Groups

Some of these groups meet for purely professional reasons, and some to make both professional and personal connections. If you’re a member of a professional association related to your career, attend their membership meetings to find other professionals for networking purposes.

Speed Dating

The act of speed dating among singles is arranged by churches, clubs, and more.

Meetup.com

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6 years of tech evolution, revolution and radical change

Exactly six years ago today—Sept. 5, 2013—Network World published my very first TechWatch blog post. It addressed the introduction of Samsung's Galaxy Gear and the problem with smartwatches.Since then, I’ve written hundreds of blog posts on a dizzying array of technology topics, ranging from net neutrality to phablets to cloud computing to big data to the internet of things (IoT)—and many, many more. It’s been a great ride, and I will be forever grateful to my amazing editors at Network World and everyone who’s taken the time to read my work. But all good things must come to an end, and this will be my last TechWatch post for Network World.To read this article in full, please click here

Multicast Traffic Monitoring and NetFlow

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Measure Twice, Cut Once: Ansible net_interface

As I was preparing the materials for Ansible 2.7 Update webinar sessions I wanted to dive deeper into declarative configuration modules, starting with “I wonder what’s going on behind the scenes”

No problem: configure EEM applet command logging on Cisco IOS and execute an ios_interface module (more about that in another blog post)

Next step: let’s see how multi-platform modules work. Ansible has net_interface module that’s supposed to be used to configure interfaces on many different platforms significantly simplifying Ansible playbooks.

Containous Maesh Barges Into the Service Mesh Morass

Is Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) really Protocol Independent?

Is Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) really Protocol Independent? What is that dependency? Does PIM require an IP or can it work with non-IP?  If you don’t know about PIM, please have a look at here and here. One of my students asked, is PIM require an IP (Internet Protocol), which triggered me to share the …

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Splunk Buys Omnition, Its Second Acquisition in Two Weeks

Datanauts 172: Getting Automation In Tune With Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) – Sponsored

Set phasers to automate! The Datanauts delve into Cisco's Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) on today's sponsored episode. We explore how NSO works, examine its architecture and configuration workflows, discuss use cases and more with guest Carl Moberg.

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Commvault Pays $225M for Hedvig, Harmonizes SDS and Data Management

ThousandEyes Expands Its Gaze With Synthetic Monitoring

Containous Builds a Service Mesh on Its Traefik Proxy

Traefik and Maesh, a new open source service mesh, one designed to be easy to use by developers. Maesh is built using Traefik to provide proxy functionality, which Containous CEO Service Mesh Interface (SMI) compliance. “This is really important because this standard means that everybody knows already how we work. And it’s provider agnostic, so if you want to change your service mesh, it can be done easily,” said Vauge. “This means that we are able to provide some observability features, some traffic management features like canary deployments, and some safety features like access control, which is super important. All of this is done thanks to the compliance to the SMI standard.” Feature image by Pixabay. The post Containous Builds a Service Mesh on Its Traefik Proxy appeared first on The New Stack.

Cloudflare IPO Targets a $483M Haul, $3.5B Valuation