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S3 (Simple Storage Service) — Amazon’s object storage service, launched in 2006. Its API has over time become an industry standard: today “S3” often refers not to a specific Amazon service but to the protocol …
When you need to work with files directly on the server — open documents, save projects, keep shared departmental folders — you use network file system protocols. There are two: SMB, familiar to Windows users, and NFS, …
TFTP and SCP do not compete with FTP and SFTP for the role of the primary file-transfer method. They are narrow tools: the first is needed for network equipment and network booting, the second — for fast copying between …
FTPS and SFTP differ by a single letter, and they are often confused. In fact they are two different protocols with different designs. FTPS is regular FTP with TLS encryption added. SFTP is a standalone protocol that …
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) — one of the oldest Internet protocols. Its current specification, RFC 959, was adopted in 1985, and the protocol has changed little since. FTP is still encountered at hosting providers, in …
Cloud automation services — Zapier, Make, Albato — and their comparison with n8n are covered in the third part of the series. This article is about something else: which platforms you can deploy on your own server …
Chats, notifications, market quotes, collaborative editing, and neural network responses that appear as words — all of this requires the server to push data to the client immediately, without repeated requests. HTTP is …
Jitsi Meet — an open-source video conferencing application (Apache 2.0 license). You can use it on the public server meet.jit.si or install it on your own server: then calls go through your infrastructure, and …
Caddy, Traefik, HAProxy, Nginx and Apache solve overlapping problems — they accept HTTP requests, terminate TLS and forward traffic to applications — but they are built differently and are good in different places. Below …
Traefik (pronounced “traffic”) is a reverse proxy and load balancer that takes routes not from a static file but from the environment: from Docker, Kubernetes, files, or service discovery systems. Start a …