DKIM

DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is a system for verifying the legitimacy of an email message using an e-signature. When DKIM is activated for a specific domain name, a public cryptographic key is published to the global DNS database and a private one is kept on the email server. If a new email message is[continue...]

SMTP

The SMTP acronym stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and this is the set of scripts that allows you to send out emails. If you work with an email application, it creates a connection to the SMTP server. The latter then searches the DNS data of the domain name, which is a part of the[continue...]

InnoDB

InnoDB is a very popular storage engine for the MySQL RDBMS. It’s an alternative to the default engine – MyISAM, and it has got a lot of upsides that have made it the preferred engine for a lot of script-driven web apps, including Joomla™ and Magento, which have shifted over to InnoDB permanently. For example,[continue...]

Guide to Email List Manager Scripts

A mailing list manager script allows you to send batch emails to a group of subscribers. Also known as newsletter script, it proves to be extremely useful to send bulk emails for your email marketing campaigns including newsletters, publicity lists and other notification emails. How Mailing List Managers work? A user signups up (opt-ins) for[continue...]

IonCube

What precisely is IonCube? Why is it present on almost every present-day hosting server running PHP? In order to avoid the reverse engineering of script applications, a lot of developers encrypt their code with tools like ionCube PHP Encoder and make it human unreadable. The latter is valid for paid apps in particular, since anybody[continue...]

Debian

See why a lot of system administrators head straight for Debian whenever choosing an Operating System for their servers. Debian is a Linux distribution, that's widespread for desktop machines, but it has been becoming more popular as a server OS over the last few years as well. It is very dependable and secure, as fixes[continue...]

Node.js

Node.js is a leading-edge event-driven system, which is used to set up scalable web apps. It is built with the Google V8 JavaScript engine and it handles HTTP requests and responses between a server and an immense number of online users much more efficiently than any conventional platform. What makes Node.js unique is the fact[continue...]