NGINX is more than just a web server; it's an open-source software suite that offers a myriad of services, including reverse proxy, load balancing, and HTTP caching. Initially released in 2004, it has gained a reputation for its robustness, high-performance capabilities, and architectural simplicity. Its event-driven architecture allows it to handle large volumes of traffic with ease, making it a go-to solution for businesses of all sizes. According to industry surveys and data, NGINX is one of the top players in the web server market, often compared favorably to other industry stalwarts like Apache and Microsoft's IIS.

Given NGINX's crucial role in today's digital landscape - serving as the backbone for numerous high-traffic websites, API endpoints, and cloud-based services - securing it should be a top priority for system administrators and developers alike. The aim of this article is to equip you with the absolute musts and best practices for fortifying your NGINX server's security posture.

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have become a crucial part of the modern internet, providing lightning-fast delivery of websites and applications. As the world increasingly embraces cryptocurrency, CDN providers have also started to accept digital currency as payment, keeping pace with the evolving financial landscape. In this article, we'll explore what CDNs are, who needs them, how they speed up websites, and why paying with cryptocurrencies is a game-changer. Additionally, we will discuss the potential implications of this convergence of technologies on the broader internet ecosystem and how it might shape the future of digital service delivery and online transactions. By understanding these emerging trends, businesses and users alike can better adapt to the ever-changing digital world and harness the full potential of both CDNs and cryptocurrencies.

During the last couple of years, Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) have gotten a lot more popular, due to the fact that they’re cheap and easy to carry out, and they basically require no effort whatsoever once a stable script is put into place.

For those who do not know, DDoS attacks take advantage of one of the biggest vulnerabilities of serves- the fact that they can only handle a set amount of connections or traffic at the same time. Based on this, they basically flood server with requests, which in turn, either slows or takes sites down completely.

We are glad to announce the highly anticipated VPS improvements that include the following new features:

- new VMware ESXi hypervisor setup

- DDoS protection up to 10 Gbps free of charge

- minimum billing cycle is 1 month

We are glad to announce that as a result of our recent investment in hardware and uplink bandwidth capacity CoinsHost is now capable of mitigating against any DDoS attack that scales up to 400 Gbps.

CoinsHost team is glad to announce that we have installed and tested the new DDoS migitation solution capable of handling attacks that scale up to 200 Gbps. In fact attacks of this size still are a very rare occurence (less than 0.5% of all attacks according to our statistics), whereas an average attack size and duration keep growing on a monthy basis. Be sure that when your websites or servers are hosted with CoinsHost, we will be able to mitigate against any attack that targets your web properties or infrastructure, no matter how big the size of attack actually is.