Cybersecurity in the Age of the Machine
Your users want to access a web server instance as a staging or production environment for DevOps… They want access to the web server document root of the sites they manage. Your job is to maintain the integrity of the whole system in terms of cyber security.
If you happen to be running a web server on Linux—for example in EC2 on Amazon AWS—and need to provide site owners remote access in a secure and responsible manner, here is how to do it.
If you are running Linux kernel 3.6 or newer, anyone in the world on a network that allows IP spoofing can hijack your encrypted communications in less than a minute, with a success rate of 90%.
Here is how to fix it.
Have you ever seen one of these weird redirects? WordPress, for example, may refuse to show the log-in page, leaving you out of its admin interface for good. Here is what to do about it.
Leaving your current web hosting provider for the cloud experience may feel rather scary, but in reality, it is a liberating experience.
Just think of all the freedom you gain to run your web services your way: the ability to use any DNS provider of your choice, any certificate authority (such as, most notably, the disruptive force of Letsencrypt), install software to your heart’s content, scale up and out on demand, in other words, be in charge of your own services and infrastructure. Here is a quick tutorial on how to make the leap.