by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 23, 2023 | Firewall, Networking, Security, Web design
In plain English, a CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a collection of servers spread across different locations around the world. Its purpose is to help deliver digital content, such as web pages, images, videos, and other files, to users in a faster and more...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 19, 2023 | Firewall, Networking, Security
What are port numbers? As we were discussing the OSI model and the difference between TCP and UDP we already learned some of the bits how protocols work on the transport layer. Together with the transport protocol used (these are not limited to TCP and UDP only but...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 15, 2023 | Firewall, Networking
Let’s spell out the acronyms first. TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol and UDP stands for User Datagram Protocol. In networking we often use the OSI model as a reference to clarify on which layer of the OSI model a protocol is used. We did an article...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 12, 2023 | Firewall, Networking
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. As the name implies it’s protocol that facilitates the transfer of a file from one client over the network to another client. FTP modes: active versus passive FTP connections can be made using one of these two modes. In...
by Kristof Vandenborn | Jun 3, 2023 | Firewall, Networking, Security
This is probably going to be one of the shortest posts I have ever written, about an invaluable protocol for every network. NTP stands for Network Time Protocol and is a protocol, you guessed it, that is responsible for time synchronization in a network. There are...
