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Domain validated, organisation validated, extended validation, wildcard and multi-domain certificates all encrypt the same way and differ in what they prove. Which one a site actually needs.
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Choosing a name, picking an extension, checking that it is free, registering it with contact details that will pass verification, and pointing it at a server without your site going dark while the change spreads.
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A distributed denial of service attack floods a server with more traffic than it can answer. How the attacks are built, the signs that one has started, the three families they fall into and the defences that work against each.
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