Month: June 2021

June 21, 2021

Domain Related

Reading Time: 6 minutes

Trends are trends, and the reason there’s often no stopping trends is because there’s a darn good reason everyone’s doing whatever it is. These days one such trend that’s got solid legitimacy behind it is moving from an on-premises Microsoft Exchange deployment to Exchange, and for most people it is nothing short of a huge undertaking. It’s often full of major issues along with considerations and decisions galore, and for a lot of people they won’t know what they’ve gotten into with moving to hosted Exchange until they’re well into the process. But you’re going to do what you’re going to do, and especially if it’s something you feel you need to do. I remember when I was very young and my grandfather said to me ‘some birds do, and some birds don’t. Some birds will, and some birds won’t.’ I had absolutely no idea what on earth he was talking about but I stared up into the sky anyways. The few birds I saw were flying around being birds like any other and I remember thinking what is it they would or wouldn’t be doing in the first place. But enough about that. Our discussion today is not necessarily about trends and about who is going to do what. It’s about getting your organization into Exchange Online and for some people it’s full of pitfalls that can make the whole thing far too unpleasant, especially if you have on choice but to continue on with it. So here’s what we know about what you should do, and what you shouldn’t do. Don’t underestimate the time required for moving the entirety of data over A whole bunch of factors can make this a lengthy ordeal. How many users do you have? How much data does each mailbox have stored? Do you have bandwidth constraints? The list can go on. Migrating email to the cloud can take anywhere from a few days to several weeks. In fact, Microsoft can contribute one major slowdown of their own – a less-obvious protective feature of Exchange Online makes it so that inbound sustained connections are throttled in order to prevent system overwhelm risk. A...

June 14, 2021

Domain Related

Reading Time: 5 minutes

Sharing the wealth is a pretty good rule to go by if you’re able to share it, and there’s been plenty of examples where if you don’t you end up with someone like Robin Hood who will share it for you. When it comes to the world of web development there’s never been any doubt about that, and that’s why source code is made available as open source as readily as it is. The widespread adoption has been of immense benefit to anyone who ‘builds’ anything worthy of mentioning for design and functionality. Here at 4GoodHosting we’re like any good Canadian web hosting provider in that there’s some of us around here that speak Programmer, but there’s others that don’t speak it at all and that’s alright. Some weeks our entries here may be a little bit more digestible for the less web-savvy of you all, but this likely isn’t going to be one of them. If you’re a coder or if your someone who can appreciate what web development is doing for marketing and promotion capacities for your business then this is something that will be of interest. Adopting new business strategies or implementing new technology is a proven effective way to grow and compete more effectively. More and more regularly it’s open source technology being tabbed as some seek a competitive edge and more of the latest innovations. A published survey not long ago found that 85% of enterprises reported using open source in their organization and in simple numbers adoption of the software really taken off over the last year. Almost half of these same teams are looking to rely more on open source in response to everything that’s changed (and they’ve learned) over the course of the COVID pandemic. The Right Fit Now You will be challenged to find anything around us that is NOT powered by open source today, from mobile phones to household appliances and more. Being able to build on the existing foundation of technology and not be hampered in making use of what you can to build your expansion on it is what open source is all about . Open source and...

June 7, 2021

Domain Related

Reading Time: 4 minutes

No one needs to hear how Malware has become such more sophisticated and far-reaching nowadays, as the topics been beaten to death and everyone knows that cyber security experts are hard pressed to keep pace with them. Well, here we go again with one of the more menacing ones to come out of the void in more recent years. That’s Siloscape, named that way because this is malware that’s primary aim is to escape the container, and what better way than up and out. To get technical, Siloscape is a heavily obfuscated malware built to open a backdoor into poorly configured Kubernetes clusters and then run malicious containers to go along with other sneaky and up-to-no-good activities. If an entire cluster is compromised the attacker gets served sensitive information like credentials, confidential files, or even entire databases hosted in the cluster. Experts are semi-jokingly comparing this to the novel coronavirus, as this malware bug is pretty darn novel in itself as there’s really nothing been like it before and that’s why it’s generating fanfare. Unlikely to be as calamitous in the big picture as this darn pandemic though, which is a good thing. All of this stuff tends to be fascinating enough for those of us here like it would be for any Canadian web hosting provider. Nature of the business and all, and while we have a formative understanding of web security practices there’s no one here who’d be able to pull up the drawbridge in any situation like this. So let’s have a look at his Siloscape malware and lay out what you might need to know if you’re your own cyber security expert. Cluster Buster For anyone who might not know, the reason this is as serious as it is is because Kubernetes is one of the most popular open-source applications around, and for good reason. Containers have been wonderful and that’s why it’s unfortunate Siloscape is engineered to do what it does. So many organizations moving into the club are using Kubernetes clusters as their development and testing environments, and the threat of software supply chain attacks has to be seen as a huge threat. Compromising...