by Richard W | Jan 8, 2015 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security, Web, Wordpress
This brief tutorial shows you how to run WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx webserver. When you combine these three, you may be able to improve your website performance dramatically, considering your host is great. Without a reliable and great host, you may not...
by Richard W | Dec 12, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web
To keep your system updated with the latest and greatest packages on CentOS 7, you must constantly update it. The yum update commands will fetch and download the latest updates for your system. By default, it only fetches pre-installed repositories which can be...
by Richard W | Dec 9, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security, Web
Running a successful blog or website can be a full time job at times. Every successful webmaster wants their sites to be up always. No one wants to go to a website that’s frequently down or unstable and that’s why many webmasters take managing their sites...
by Richard W | Nov 17, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security
Some webmasters believe that changing SSH port number from the default 22 can enhance security. The notion is since SSH default port number is 22 and everyone knows it, including the hackers, it isn’t safe. Changing the SSH port number to something other than 22...
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 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...
