by Richard W | Oct 30, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
Nginx is a fast, powerful and secure HTTP server. It’s used by many webmasters looking to improve their website performance. Most people even think it’s better than Apache2 in the way it handles web traffic. In this brief blog post, I am going to show you...
by Richard W | Oct 28, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web
There are many ways to manage MySQL database servers. The most popular and easiest way to manage MySQL is using your web browser via phpMyAdmin tool. PhpMyAdmin is a PHP application that enables webmasters and database administrators to easily manage and maintain...
by Richard W | Oct 25, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web, Windows, Wordpress
Many times when I use Google PageSpeed Insights to grade my site, I end up with 100% optimization score. Not many websites can boast of that. These PageSpeed Insights scores are based on how well your site is optimized. PageSpeed Insights is not the only tool one can...
by Richard W | Oct 20, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web, Wordpress
Few days ago we showed you how to install and use DenyHosts on Ubuntu 14.04. This post is going to show you how to install and use similar tool called fail2ban on Ubuntu 14.04. Like DenyHosts, fail2ban also checks your server logs to look for patterns that resemble an...
by Richard W | Oct 18, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web
Vanish is a proxy and cache server which is designed to improve websites performance. Vanish works great for busy and dynamic websites by redirecting dynamic calls to static cached pages thus reducing the number new requests that can be served. For example, a website...
by Richard W | Oct 16, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Security, Web, Windows
DenyHosts is a python tool that monitors your webserver logs for activities that may signal a brute force attack against you. A brute force attack is a method used by bad guys to gain access to your servers using hundreds, sometimes thousands of random username and...
