Welcome to another Kiiff Blog post! Today, I want to explore the similarities and differences between TLS and, the more well known, SSL. If you would like a refresher on SSL, check out this earlier blog post. What is TLS? TLS stands for Transport Layer Security. It uses a handshake sort of protocol to negotiate […]
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What Is A Sitemap?
Sitemap: A Definition According to techterms.com, “A site map, sometimes written “sitemap,” is an overview of the pages within a website. Site maps of smaller sites may include every page of the website, while site maps of larger sites often only include pages for major categories and subcategories of the website. While site maps can be […]
What is Premium DNS?
If you shop around for web hosting packages, you may see some services offer “premium DNS” usually as a part of one of their more expensive packages. In this post, I want to examine what premium DNS is and what it can mean for your internet presence. If you do not understand the concept of […]
What is a Certificate Authority?
Welcome to a new addition of the Kiiff Blog. Today, we’re expanding our knowledge of web security by talking about Certificate Authorities or CA’s. They are the reason SSL is able to work, and websites are able to be trusted by regular website users. Background For a high level view of Certificate Authorities, abbreviated CA’s […]
What Is A CMS?
CMS – Content Management System Generically speaking, a content management system is an application that facilitates creation, modification, and publication of digital content. Specifically we care about the term in websites because they enable people to create, organize, modify, and publish professional looking websites themselves. Not to mention little to no programming experience is necessary. […]
What is a LAMP/XAMP Stack?
What powers your website? Do you know the infrastructure running that keeps the lights on every day? Of course, here at Kiiff we have Litespeed servers that host all of our clients, but what is inside of them? Today, I want to talk about what a LAMP or XAMP stack is. XAMP is pronounced “ZAMP” […]