Tech

WP Engine Launched DevKit, Will Synchronize All Tools in One Place

Published

4 years ago

June 12, 2019

WP Engine, the WordPress digital experience platform, has launched WP Engine DevKit. This tool will be helpful to merge SSH gateway access, easy development, and local development environment. Some other WordPress tools such as developer tools for building, debugging and deploying digital experience are also synchronized with DevKit. It is like a master tool which holds other tools. DevKit is free to download till now, and it is available in beta version. Only Mac and Linus operating systems are compatible to use this tool yet with graphical user interface and Command line interface.

WordPress is the responsible editor for 34% of all the websites with its multipurpose WordPress themes. Making themes is not an easy task to do for WordPress developers; it takes too much time, repetitive processes, manual tasks, and debugging to make a theme. But now DevKit would be helpful to reduce the developers’ efforts by blending all the tools in DevKit. This tool will help give an intense workflow and actual WordPress development.

Jason Cohen, the founder and chief technical officer at WP Engine, said, “We talked to hundreds of customers over the course of the last nine months of building DevKit, to ensure we created the development workflow and environment that developers actually want to use to experiment and iterate digital experiences faster, We want to create the best development environment for WordPress and we will continue to invest in and iterate on our DevKit in the months ahead.”

WP Engine DevKit is free for all users who work on WordPress editor. WP Engine’s existing customers can download DevKit from customer portal and the prospective customers can download it from the DevKit landing page.

Tech

CDN Security: Protecting Your Content and Users

Published

14 hours ago

June 7, 2023

Jonathan Grilli

Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated and can cause companies severe disruption and financial loss. On average, IT outages cost companies $5,600 per minute. That’s why providing layered cloud protection is essential to improve organizations’ security. The CDN service guarantees such protection, so today, we will delve into what it is and what advantages it provides to users and organizations.

What is CDN security?

The main task of a CDN is to speed up page loading and improve website performance. Along with that, CDN also helps improve security. CDNs are content delivery networks comprising geographically distributed servers connected and optimized through private global networks. This allows the CDN to avoid overloading ISPs and public networks.

The technology is based on caching, where copies of the content are stored on different data processing servers and local caching servers worldwide. Content is served from edge servers closer to users than from the origin server. This is how technology ensures fast, reliable, and secure content delivery. Almost every popular service you use currently uses such solutions: from Netflix and YouTube to online game providers, large e-commerce companies, and government and public institutions.

How does a CDN improve the security of a website and its users?

A content delivery network uses reverse proxy technology to place its servers in front of websites at the network’s edge. This allows CDNs to prevent threats such as DDoS attacks before they even reach a website. In addition, a CDN can balance the load by efficiently distributing traffic between servers, which helps avoid congestion. It also sits at the network’s edge, filtering threats before they reach a website.

How to choose reliable CDN protection?

It’s worth using an integrated, intelligent CDN security solution, and this is precisely what GCore offers its customers. In addition, it is important to pay attention to the following points:

The service must include advanced threat detection capabilities, such as sophisticated bot attacks, malware, and layer 7 DDoS attacks.
A CDN must provide encryption to protect against network failures and other threats.
Evaluate your network size and security infrastructure to select the optimal service package.
Give preference to solutions compatible with the SSL certificates used.

Integrated, intelligent CDN security solutions with analytics and reporting are among the services the GCore team offers. Take care of your online security with GCore before cyber threats become a real problem rather than a potential one.