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Procure, and maintain backups with your LAMP webhost
Tweet If you’re reading this article, you are likely aware of the benefits of maintaining backups for your website. If you happened to stumble upon this, please take note; A successful backup can save hours, weeks, or months of work. … Continue reading
5 ways your website is vulnerable to security attacks (PART 2)
Tweet In our last post, we discussed 5 different ways your website can be made vulnerable to security attacks. In this post we’ll discuss the negative effects of a security breach, and give some tips on how to protect your … Continue reading
5 ways your website is vulnerable to security attacks (Part 1)
Tweet No one likes to be inconvenienced by website security issues. It eats away at productivity, patience, and profit. In part one of this 2-part series, we’ll look at 5 common issues behind what can make your website susceptible to … Continue reading
6 Things Every Website Owner Must Know About IPv6
Tweet Are You Prepared for IPv6? Relax, you probably are – you just don’t know it. Even though this might sound like the latest pandemic, surviving IPv6 won’t require a single inoculation or even a booster shot. Why are we … Continue reading
Why do Developers seem to Love PHP?
PHP is the most popular and widely used server side scripting language in the world. Why do developers seem to be so fond of PHP? Continue reading
Using WordPress as a Content Management System
Tweet For non-ecommerce sites, one of the best simple CMS’s out there is WordPress. Yes, WordPress is the most popular blog software out there – but in reality, it does a whole lot more. Setting WordPress to Serve a Static … Continue reading
What the heck is an iNode and do I have an inode limit?
Tweet In computing, an iNode is a data structure on a file system that stores basic information about a regular file, directory, or other file system object. Each iNode has an number to identify it, and whenever you create a … Continue reading
Joomla: Sometimes, even software feels vulnerable.
Tweet Joomla is an awesome CMS and lots of people use it. It’s also one of the most commonly exploited pieces of software we see. Securing Joomla can be a chore, and telling you how to do it completely is … Continue reading
Load Impact: Stress Test Your Site for Free
Tweet Most web hosting companies won’t tell you about this little tool, and we are – which likely makes us either totally confident, or totally crazy. http://loadimpact.com/ is a site that offers stress testing for sites with a graphical output … Continue reading
How Stuff Gets on Your WordPress Site
Tweet I have a personal blog that I don’t blog on much, but I randomly thought today I might decide to change that. I don’t have much time to devote to it so I wasn’t very interested in creating my … Continue reading