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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...
by Richard W | Oct 15, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Here’s a brief tutorial that shows you how to create a virtual host or server block on Nginx web server. Virtual Host is a term used with Apache2 to host multiple websites on a single web server. Nginx on the other hand calls it Server Block. So to Nginx...
by Richard W | Oct 14, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web, Wordpress
This brief tutorial is going to show you how to easily install WordPress with Apache2 and self-signed SSL certificate support on Ubuntu 14.04. Since most webmasters are migrating to WordPress over SSL, this guide should help you get started in a test environment...
by Richard W | Oct 13, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web
Looking to enable SSL or HTTPS for Apache2 on Ubuntu? This brief tutorial is going to show you how it’s done. Since Google announced that websites that enable HTTPS for all their pages would get a small ranking boost, many webmasters and website owners are...
by Richard W | Oct 10, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Lost your MariaDB root password? Well, you’re in luck because this brief tutorial is going to show you how get into the database server and create a new root password. When you forget the root password for MariaDB database server, you can’t just unlock or...
by Richard W | Oct 9, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web, Windows, Wordpress
Currently it appears that our website traffic is recovering from Google Panda after the release of “Panda 4.1”. I don’t want to make any assumptions until a full recovery from Google Panda algorithm. If you’ve been visiting our blog regularly,...
by Richard W | Oct 8, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web, Wordpress
Migrating your WordPress blog to HTTPS is simple. Since Google started rewarding HTTPS pages with higher ranking, many webmasters are beginning to migrate their blogs to all HTTPS traffic. To enable HTTPS or HTTP over SSL for your blog, there are few things to...
by Richard W | Oct 7, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Web
We previously showed you how to install Nginx and Apache2 on Ubuntu 14.04 and now, this brief tutorial is going to show you how to install Lighttpd web server in Ubuntu 14.04 with PHP5, MySQL support. Most webmasters know a lot about Apache2 and Nginx web servers, but...
by Richard W | Oct 6, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web
Since Google announced that HTTPS pages would get a small boost on its search engine result pages, webmasters around the net are beginning to install and understand HTTPS or HTTP or SSL.. For those who don’t know, it’s just a way to encrypt information...
by Richard W | Oct 4, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security, Web, Windows, Wordpress
If you’ve been here over the last few month, you’d noticed the many changes that this blog has gone through. We’ve changed domain providers, switched web servers, switched host providers, changed WordPress themes and WordPress caching plugins. All of...
