Ask yourself, would you stick around if this page didn’t load almost immediately, but instead, there was a blank white page for a few seconds? Around half of the internet’s users leave if it takes longer than 2 seconds to load a web page. Two years ago, I used Cloudflare’s Page Rules, specifically the “Cache […]
Apache Performance: Disable .htaccess
Back in 2013, I searched the web for a performance article which I could forward to a client of StackLinux. One that explained how using WordPress Cache plugins that use .htaccess is almost always slower than plugins that don’t use it. Surprisingly, that search took longer than expected. I finally found this article, where Martin, […]
Best WordPress Cache Plugin 2019
Update January 20th, 2019: Hyper Cache is now being actively developed again. Thus, it has returned as my #1 go-to WP Cache plugin. Changes marked in green. This blog post was originally posted just over 4 years ago. WordPress Cache plugin options have changed a lot since. As such, I’m updating this list of 5 best WordPress plugins. Are you […]
WordPress Plugin being exploited. Delete inactive plugins
For the past few days an increasing number of WordPress websites have been infected by attackers exploiting a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin: WP Mobile Detector. The plugin with over 10,000 active installs was at one point removed completely from the WordPress repository with no patch available. However, as of today the WP Mobile Detector plugin has been patched […]
LEMP Raspberry Pi 2 Web Server – Arch Linux, Nginx, MariaDB (MySQL) & PHP
Download the Latest LEMP Raspberry Pi 2 Web Server Image To Do: – Update my.cnf for RPi2 (1G of memory) and enable InnoDB by default. – Fix broken PHP modules. (gd, imap and mcrypt) Change log 09-16-2015 – Fixed sshd root access and enabled autostart of sshd on boot. 09-12-2015 – Tested image on 3 […]
10 Easy WordPress Remote Backup Solutions
We all know how important it is to backup our data on a regular basis. Disk drives fail, databases crash, human error, hackers, hurricanes, fire, flood, you know the drill. Yet, only 6% of medium-sized companies that suffer catastrophic data loss ever recover and 51% close down within two years. With that in mind, do you have a […]