CloudFlare Flexible SSL provides a free SSL certificate for WordPress and WooCommerce sites. Flexible SSL encrypts the connection between your visitor and CloudFlare providing the green lock in web browsers which signals trust. For login forms and checkout consider using Full SSL instead. If using Flexible SSL with Varnish you may find visitors get broken … Learn more…
Webmin is an awesome tool for people self-hosting WordPress on a VPS (Digital Ocean or Vultr) or dedicates server. It can help bridge the gap when moving from the chains of cPanel to a more flexible solution since you can add cronjobs, update your Linux distribution’s packages and more management tasks. I like to get email … Learn more…
Aelia Currency Switcher for WooCommerce allows shop owners to set different currencies based on customer geolocation. This technology is known as GeoIP location detection and is provided by the MaxMind databases. Automatic currency detection based on country adds extra polish to your store, however it can add extra loading time because PHP must be used to look … Learn more…
Previously I have shown how to upload WordPress backups to Dropbox without a WordPress backup plugin. If your site isn’t that large than Dropbox’s free limit of 2 GB may suit your needs. However, if you have a larger site then Google Drive may be a better option since you get 15 GB of space … Learn more…
Monit can be used to monitor your services on your VPS or dedicated server. You can use Monit to make sure nginx is always running in case it halts or freezes up – note this is very rare but it is better to be safe than sorry. Monit will check which port nginx is running on … Learn more…