Have you ever heard the saying 'How many beans make 5'? and wondered if anyone had actually answered it? Not happy that it is just a rhetorical question and thought it deserves an answer? Answer We dug deep and came up with the answer for you. The Genie says that...
Everything is fine until one time Plesk asks for a licence key after logging in and won't go any further. Ionos Hosting Some Ionos hosting comes with a licenced Plesk installed to make it easy to manage your sites. There is a licence key held for your Plesk in... Read more
You may see some very old browsers or misconfigured UserAgents for browsers in your logs. These odd user agents are seen visiting from IP addresses and ASNs linked to Hosting companies. You can expect these to be some bot, a computer script that visited websites for whatever reason the... Read more
Random-looking things appearing in the logs are explained. Breakdown Here is a breakdown of the code step by step. This code is an example of an SQL injection attempt, and it's designed to manipulate an SQL query. and/**/convert(int,sys.fn_sqlvarbasetostr(HashBytes('MD5','1212093799')))>'0 Manipulate SQL The goal of this code is to try to... Read more
Odd random stuff appearing in the weblogs gets explained. SQL Injection attempt The code is an SQL injection attempt. SQL injection is a type of security vulnerability that occurs when an attacker is able to manipulate the SQL query being executed by a web application, typically by inserting malicious... Read more
You are expecting to see a video, but all you get is this message in white text on a black background: 'This video has not been configured to be allowed on this domain.' The error messages relates to a Cloudflare-hosted video, and it is in the control of the... Read more
If you are running your website on Plesk and want to view the visitor statistics, you can use the AWStats program that reads the relevant log files and produces nice HTML tables of visitors and their relevant numbers. AWStats AWStats is installed by default on Plesk hosting. You can... Read more