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Just to let people know that Gigarocket will be ending it's free hosting on 6th of December. The owner made an announcement that no more applications for hosting will be accepted with immediate effect.

Main reason is financial. The cost of cPanel has gone through the roof, and on top of hosting was no longer financially sustainable during trying times. The owner however said the Forum will stay open as he is still hoping that times may improve to the extent he can re-introduce hosting again at a future date.

If you guys know of any other quality cpanel free hosts, please let me know.

I am dipping my toe in sql lately. My goal is to extend the games I've been working on with multiplayer functionality. I've had some success, but it's a steep learning curve as I'm not well versed with php or sql, the systems being used to integrate the database with the client.

While I experiment with new and interesting ways of organizing user data to enhance the gaming experience, I've got my thoughts centered on security. To have a multiplayer game, I need a way to identify different users, and each must be unique. This necessitates a user database, and means that I'll have to maintain user data and keep it safe while being able to access it and transmit it over the interwebs as needed.

Here's what I've tried so far:

After a great deal of thought, I decided to create a wordpress site to start the database. While probably not the most secure option, it is "the industry standard" as the most popular cms in the world, and with many minds working on it, it's probably better than anything I could come up with on my own on the fly.

Wordpress does make the effort to hash passwords before storing them, and there are numerous plugins to extend security, and regular updates: which I feel good about.

Next, I create my php scripts. The php scripts take a POST response over https and use it to move data into the database. The output is passed as JSON back to the client.

I am by no means an expert in security, but I did make some effort: I made sure to use PHP VALIDATE filters and on all user inputs. But I've noticed after hours of research that there are a ton of topics on this subject, more than I could ever read; which makes me wonder: What's the best way to go about it? It's like buying shampoo... how do I know what's the best shampoo when there's a whole aisle full of options, more than I could ever try?

 I'm still a little apprehensive about transmitting user data over the internet, and would like to keep considering other options to increase security and safety for myself and others.

I have thought of creating a login token that would expire after a time; an hour or two? This could become tedious for the end user, but I'm less anxious about transmitting a randomly generated token than sending a user name/password, and expiring tokens would limit the opportunities for cheating. I could even bind each token to an ip although some users might not appreciate having their ip stored :/ I think there is no perfect solution. I need to focus on finding the best solution for my particular scenario.

After all that, here are the questions for any who might have an answer, and wish to extend the discussion:

1. At current, how "safe" would my operation be? I know that no system is completely secure, but can I proceed with relative confidence that I've made a solid effort to protect the integrity of the data?

2. If not, what other systems should I consider putting in place? What search terms can I put in google to return the topics I would be well to learn?

Hello all! I am going on month two of using my VPS provided by @cubedata and I have learned a lot to say the least. In this review I will be breaking things down by my thoughts, some benchmarks followed by my current use and what I hope to accomplish with the VPS in the next month or so. So let’s get right into it. 

My thoughts:
I honestly did not know what to expect when I first got the keys and got behind the wheel of this VPS. As you will see in the benchmarks, there’s a lot of power behind this plan and honestly with my love of Wordpress I needed something that was going to be able to handle the load that my main site and developer site were going to produce. My last host, many of you noticed the long load times, but with the transition of my main site nearing completion I could not be happier. The panel was a little confusing for me to understand right off of the jump, but I quickly got use to it, using the built in HTML5 VNC client to fool around with things until I was able to get the VNC client built into macOS setup properly followed by getting SSH enabled so I can tinker even on my iPhone. I would say CubeData exceeds expectations with 99.99% uptime, so I know my clients and business will always be connected.

Pros:
Consistant uptime
Fast and easy to setup
Panel Tools are powerful, limited and direct

Cons:
I noticed with the Panel that the Virtual CDROM would often unmount itself while I was trying to get my server reset up and optimized.

Server Specs:
OS: Ubuntu Server 18.04.5
Virtualization: XenHVM
Location: Huston, TX
Web Server: Apache2
Configurations: Domain + Subdomains with SSL, SSH and MFA
Storage: 50GB
Memory: 3.91GB
Bandwidth: Unmetered 
Swap: Disabled
Network Card: Intel E1000

Benchmarks:
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 CPU Model             : Intel® Xeon® CPU           X5560  @ 2.80GHz
 CPU Cores             : 2
 CPU Frequency         : 2800.136 MHz
 CPU Cache             : 8192 KB
 Total Disk            : 45.5 GB (4.3 GB Used)
 Total Mem             : 3833 MB (600 MB Used)
 Total Swap            : 4119 MB (0 MB Used)
 System uptime         : 5 days, 9 hour 23 min
 Load average          : 0.05, 0.03, 0.01
 OS                    : Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
 Arch                  : x86_64 (64 Bit)
 Kernel                : 4.15.0-123-generic
 TCP CC                : cubic
 Virtualization        : Xen
 Organization          : AS40676 Psychz Networks
 Location              : Houston / US
 Region                : Texas
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 I/O Speed(1st run)    : 211 MB/s
 I/O Speed(2nd run)    : 232 MB/s
 I/O Speed(3rd run)    : 202 MB/s
 Average I/O speed     : 215.0 MB/s
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 Node Name        Upload Speed      Download Speed      Latency     
 Speedtest.net    937.72 Mbps       927.97 Mbps         1.59 ms     
 Shanghai   CU    1.06 Mbps         287.86 Mbps         314.52 ms   
 Guangzhou  CT    0.18 Mbps         124.39 Mbps         230.33 ms   
 Shenzhen   CU    0.27 Mbps         232.71 Mbps         303.80 ms   
 Hongkong   CN    464.33 Mbps       368.77 Mbps         190.04 ms   
 Singapore  SG    388.06 Mbps       301.57 Mbps         212.40 ms   
 Tokyo      JP    191.15 Mbps       23.63 Mbps          151.87 ms   
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My plans for the future:
With this server going above and beyond my expectations, some of my plans for the future is to continue developing softwares and CMSs that I've had in development for a while now along with venturing into new technologies such as creating an AI Assistant for said projects.The sky is the limit and I see my self keeping up with and continuing to maintain access to this VPS until I out grow it. One thing I would like to do is create a small mail server, so I can move my email from gmail to have a [email protected], but that can come at a later time and date. Thank you once again to Post4VPS and @cubedata for the wonderful server.

Today I spent some time with checking out YouTube tutorials on Linux Mint.  Linux Mint looks like a promising alternative for someone used to Windows, how good it is I'm not sure, but looks like it is one of the Windows alternatives that is being used.

I was wondering whether there is any one here who has been using Linux for a Windows alternative.  What distribution are you using, and what has your experience been compared with Windows?

If you have some experience with Linux Mint, would be great if you could share it here.  I've noticed that Linux Mint was upgraded to Version 20 in July of this year and Linux Mint fans didn't like the new version that much.  Something to do with the way that Ubuntu, on which Linux Mint is built has changed how it deals with apps.  Would it be OK to stick with Linux Mint 19, or would Linux Mint 20 be better.  The negative of course being Linux Mint 19 would have many more updates, but maybe be more user friendly for a first time user?

I just wanted to do a survey kind of thing to check how many of us are mining / taking part in the pi community.

As the title suggests, 

Are you mining pi coins on your mobiles. If yes, then how much approx do you have right now ?

let me state mine here,

slightly over 2000 coins.

Hi,

   This is mainly for all of you who may have some mined pi coins in your accounts and have gone inactive now for some reason.

 They have started a drive to do full KYC for free for some contributors / miners to help boot the activities through them [ may be others who join later or dont get the free offer or ignore the free offer will have to bear some cost of sending the documents or some kind of processing fees or charge. I have no idea. sorry ]
   and also offering an option to change your name so that matches your identification documents.

You wont be able to claim the coins if the name you used in your profile their do not match with your KYC documents. This is to prevent fraud.

So all inactive pi miners with some mined pi coins in your accounts,  please login and check your status.

Thank you
rudra

re. I am posting this just cause I wanted to let you all know. I am not benefitting in any way from this except may be having some pleasure of doing what I wanted to.

Thanks for reading.

hey guys how all are doing? recently i finally reached legendary rank in multiplayer rank matches of cod mobile ! the legendary rank really make feels like im pro but when i had start playing with pro players who are seniors then me i thought it has wrong there r still many pro players in legendary rank, even though Im happy that i made my self in legendary rank with 128 mp matches with 6.78 K/D ratio   meanwhile i made this happen against china players I downloaded cod mobile VN version and i was against VN players i faced many hackers also but at least i reached my dream rank !
watch the video below 

I know there are 2 Windows 10 related topics already out there but  I want to keep this separate because those 2 are about technicals about the Windows 10 Operating system. This thread is to focus on everything we run on it. Since Windows 10 OS we can run apps too, so I guess it makes a difference from Windows 7 or other previous versions.  I want to talk about which apps, programs, Utility recommendations plus what's good - what's bad, etc.

Anyway, my first question is about virus guards since that's something we need to get sorted out anything else in a fresh installation. Now, has built-in real-time antivirus named Windows Defender. Is this one is good enough? or do we need another third-party virus guard? I guess this is the successor of Microsoft Security Essentials which we had in Windows 7 but I was not impressed with that one. I hope Windows Defender is better. Since this comes as a built-in thing I guess it's gonna be a bit of a pain remove it or disable. Right now I'm using Avast on my Windows 7 PC and it's pretty good since I haven't found anything bad yet. It's good at the web protection department too.

And Windows 10 firewalls seem to be good enough for an average PC.

Hello All,

I was just notified today that my cPanel host is closing their doors Dec 7 so I am in the process of moving my main domain over to my VPS. I am currently running into an issue where tbelldesign.co is redirecting to dev.tbelldesign.co and I am not sure how to remedy the problem. I have cruised around the internet for a bit and I am not fining any viable solutions, so I am wondering if anyone else has seen this issue and know how to fix it. Thanks!