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5 Best Cheap Black Friday VPS Deals - November 2025

Every November, hosting providers bombard your inbox with massive discount percentages. 70% off here, 80% off there. It sounds incredible until renewal hits and your monthly bill triples. The real question isn't "how big is the discount?" It's "what will I actually pay over the next 2-3 years?" That's where the actual value lives.
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When Stripe's SSL Certificate Belonged to Someone Else

In 2010, Stripe bought stripe.com and started building the payment infrastructure that would eventually process billions of dollars. They bought their domain and ordered the SSL certificates. Except the previous owner of stripe.com still had a valid certificate. Valid for almost 2 more years.

Immutable Storage: The Backbone of Modern DevOps Resilience

Nearly 94% of ransomware attacks initially targeted backups. Mainly to encrypt them. That means, for SaaS and DevOps platforms, backup alone no longer solves the problem of data protection. A copy of backup data is worthless if it can be altered (corrupted) or blocked when you need it most. Besides, integrity has to be provable and data recovery certain. That’s why immutable storage is a baseline requirement for resilience in modern IT architectures.

Searching Certificate Transparency Logs (Part 3)

Clickhouse is an incredible database. Here at Certkit, we’ve long worked in the world of “No SQL” databases like Elasticsearch precisely for their ability to query large amounts of data. But for every database, there’s an amount of data that’s “Too big”. Too big to query quickly or too big to store affordably. Clickhouse manages to thread the needle by efficiently storing truly ridiculous amounts of data while still providing impressive query performance.

Introducing The GitGuardian IDE Extension for VS Code, Cursor, Antigravity, And Windsurf

Ship fewer secrets with your code. In this video we walk you through installing and using the GitGuardian IDE extension in Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Windsurf, and any VS Code compatible editor. You will see how the extension uses ggshield, the GitGuardian command line tool, to scan for 500+ types of secrets and catch plaintext credentials as soon as you save a file, long before they can be committed.

Searching Certificate Transparency Logs (Part 2)

In the last post we discussed why we’re building our own Certificate Transparency (CT) search tool. There’s good background on the CT ecosystem in that post, so check it out if you haven’t. This post assumes a certain understanding of terminology covered previously. Now that we know where the CT logs live, and the different kinds of logs, we need to start reading them.