2015 - eQualitie

np1sec challenge

By: dmitri On: November 25, 2015 Uncategorized Comments Disabled

The challenge involve partially implementing some of our XMPP test client event handlers for namely join, receive and send. The result will be a client that people can use to join and chat securely. Note that the purpose of the challenge is for the EQ team to get to know the candidates and be comfortable […]

Be the (Web) Master of your own (Secret) Domain

By: dmitri On: October 20, 2015 Uncategorized Comments Disabled

We are very pleased to announce that all websites signing up for DDoS protection with Deflect will now receive an authenticated password giving them easy access to their admin panel without having to reconfigure settings on their host server. In the past, our practice has always been to set up a special secret login address […]

Creating a Hosts File Entry

By: dmitri On: September 30, 2015 FAQ, General, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

If you wish to access your domain before your DNS has been updated, you can update your local ‘hosts file’, which will allow your computer to view your new site. Follow the appropriate instructions below. Please note that this will work only with HTTPS and not with HTTP. If you need any help with this procedure […]

Migrating Your WordPress Site to Us

By: dmitri On: June 24, 2015 Help, Hosting, Migration Comments Disabled

If you already have a working WordPress site that you wish to move to eQPress, the first thing you need to do is sign up with Deflect and specify that you would like to move your existing website to eQPress, providing us with the first and last name of your admin (they don’t have to […]

How to Flush Your Local DNS Resolver’s Cache

By: dmitri On: March 19, 2015 General, Help, Hosting Comments Disabled

If your computer cannot reach a certain website this could be because your local DNS resolver’s cache contains an outdated record. For example, you updated your DNS records to point to eQPress but instead you are seeing your old website. This is when flushing your DNS cache will speed things up. Mac (OS X) In […]

Deflect – 2014 in numbers

By: dmitri On: January 29, 2015 DDoS Comments Disabled

The Deflect projects protects human rights and independent media websites from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. It is a free service for qualifying organisations and the source code is publicly available on the project wiki. In our third year of operations we protected websites from over 60 countries and present herein some interesting facts […]