In the WordPress performance world we often have to debug speed issues. Hosts like Flywheel provide an easy way to generate a zipped backup file with the site and database so you can make a local copy. This tutorial will show you how to generate the Flywheel backup and prepare a local copy by unpacking … Learn more…
Let’s Encrypt has transformed the internet. Every website can now have a free SSL certificate! You can authenticate your website with Let’s Encrypt using the .well-known path but if you have multiple virtual hosts then this can get tedious so Let’s Encrypt made it possible to add wildcard SSL certificates by using DNS to authenticate … Learn more…
Canonical’s Livepatch helps avoid Ubuntu reboots due to kernel upgrades. Livepatch is an alternative to KernelCare from CloudLinux which I showed how to set up here. Canonical are giving you up to 3 servers per account so you can keep those server’s kernels up to date without rebooting and avoid critical downtime! Getting Started with … Learn more…
In the performance world we generally like to avoid doing unnecessary things because they add overhead. This includes unnecessary redirects, wastes of bandwidth and more. This post will show you multiple ways to force Apache or LiteSpeed to redirect your primary domains from http to https in one single hop to avoid unnecessary redirects. For … Learn more…
Globalization has made cyberattacks much easier 🙁 unfortunately. As a result, you may not want certain countries to visit your site if you mainly get malicious traffic from specific countries that overload your server and slow it down. In this tutorial we will be configuring nginx to use the latest GeoIP database and blocking a … Learn more…