PHP Programming (NEW)

PHP – Why Learn…

Why should you learn PHP when there are two many “better” languages available? It’s easy to learn. You can build practical web apps within a week of starting. Finally a huge number of legacy web […]

PHP Programming (NEW)

PHP – What is…

PHP is a Hypertext Preprocessor. This essentially means that PHP dynamically writes web pages for you. So it can query a database and print a report from it, or change CSS and such based on […]

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XAMPP – What is…

XAMPP is a package that installs Apache, MariaDB, PHP and Perl onto Windows, Linux or Mac. It is a very simple way to get a web development environment up and running with little knowledge.

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LAMP Server – What is…

LAMP Servers are the standard build for web servers. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This gives you the operating system, http server, database server and PHP scripting language.

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Subdomains in DNS – What are…

Subdomains are prefixes to domain names that allow administrators to provide different web services to users, but do so using the same namespace so that it is easier to remember. Such as MAIL.failednormal.com, WWW.failednormal.com, VPN.failednormal.com… […]

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MX Record – What is…

MX Records (Mail Exchange) are DNS records that are used to route email to email servers. You can have numerous MX Records posting to different email servers to prevent loss of email due to downtime. […]

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Deplatforming – What is…

Deplatforming is when people are removed from the platforms that they use for communication. The relevance is expanding as not just Social Networking sites, but also PayPay and GoDaddy have started to proactively remove accounts.

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Doxxing – What is…

Doxxing is when personal information is released about people online. More than the act of doxxing itself, the more damaging component is the call to actions that accompany doxxing.

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DNS Registrar – What is…

A DNS Registrar is authorized by ICANN to sell domain names. They essentially do the admin work required for the Domain Name System. Registrars have become important because they are private companies and they have […]