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Putting It All Together

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Other Components

What can be used to host static files and speed up a clients visit to a website?

CDN

What does a load balancer perform to make sure a host is still alive?

health check

What can be used to help against the hacking of a website?

WAF

How Web Servers Work

What does web server software use to host multiple sites?

Virtual Hosts

What is the name for the type of content that can change?

Dynamic

Does the client see the backend code? Yay/Nay

Nay

Quiz

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Deploy the quiz by clicking the "View Site"-button. Insert the contents into the list in the following order:

  1. Request tryhackme.com in your browser
  2. Check Local Cache for IP Address
  3. Check your recursive DNS Server for Address
  4. Query root server to find authoritative DNS Server
  5. Authoritative DNS server advises the IP address for the website
  6. Request passes through a Web Application Firewall
  7. Request passes through a Load Balancer
  8. Connect to Webserver on port 80 or 443
  9. Web server receives the GET request
  10. Web Application talks to Database
  11. Your Browser renders the HTML into a viewable website

By completing the list you will get the flag:

THM{YOU_GOT_THE_ORDER}