Mike Andreasen
Varnish is one of the best WooCommerce caching solutions I have tried. I’ve managed to get WooCommerce shop load times under 1 second! The Varnish control language (vcl) gives you incredible control over what should be cached and how, providing greater flexibility than with nginx proxy or fastcgi cache systems. Using Varnish will give your … Learn more…
Monit is an awesome tool for monitoring your WordPress server. It can ensure your web server like nginx or Apache is always running as well as other crucial services. Monit will also send you email alerts. For maximum security you should not host an email server by yourself. Especially when there are free services like … Learn more…
Linux systems make solid web servers for hosting WordPress sites. Like all servers, for one reason or another services can be unstable or crash. Monit can help monitor your web server to ensure all of its essential processes are running. It will send you email alerts if load becomes excessively high usually meaning a process … Learn more…
Most tutorials for protecting wp-login.php for WordPress block users who are actually trying to make login attempts which makes logical sense. The problem with this method is that these brute force protection methods are still expensive for your web server. When a user tries to log in, PHP processing occurs and MySQL queries are made … Learn more…
WPScan is a WordPress vulnerability scanner written in Ruby. It is sponsored by Sucuri and hosted on github. Using its security vulnerability database for WordPress core, plugins and themes it will provide a report on your site’s known security problems which can be exploited by hackers. If you ever wondered how a hacker knows your … Learn more…