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Trying to understand the difference between FTP and SFTP? Using FTP (or SFTP) is the easiest way to connect directly to your server – but what are the differences between the two protocols & which should you use? In this article, we’ll compare FTP vs. SFTP as commonly used data transfer protocols, go through their advantages …

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A Domain Name System, or DNS, acts as a bridge between your device and the website you want to visit. Without it, you’d have to manually input the IP address of every site you want to visit instead of using a human-readable domain name. Slow DNS servers can result in poor load times, and, in …

WordPress is the world’s leading (and by far the most popular) content management system (CMS) – currently powering over 40% of all websites on the internet & continuing to gain market share year after year. After all, it’s trusted by prestigious brands like Bloomberg, the BBC, and TechCrunch – just to name a few – for good reason. …

A proper backup and disaster recovery solution is an absolute necessity for anyone running a website. Whether it’s something going wrong with a server/infrastructure provider or a change on the application level that takes your site down, you need to be ready to handle it fast. Fortunately, setting a backup solution that’s actually usable and …

There has been a lot of talk lately surrounding Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) initiative, which is quickly becoming a hot-button topic both in the tech community and major mainstream publications. In this blog post, we’ll cover what Google FLoC is, why it matters, and how we’ve made it easy to disable it in …

Introducing The Latest Version Of PHP 8.x PHP 8.x was released on December 23, 2020 and RunCloud has been working hard to ensure compatibility with its servers. Several weeks later, today, RunCloud is ready to introduce to its users that PHP 8.x which is now available to all accounts located in the web application settings, …

With AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing platform, you can create virtual servers in the cloud using either Amazon EC2 or Amazon Lightsail. Amazon EC2 is for highly configurable and performant environments, while Amazon Lightsail is for easy-to-use and affordable ones. This tutorial will guide you through hosting your web applications on Amazon EC2. You can also …

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google. All GCP data centers are connected through Google’s backbone network – one of the biggest and fastest in the world. RunCloud is a cloud server management tool that allows you to maintain full control of your server, and host multiple …