CloudFlare provides a free service for CDN, security and speed. Many people think CloudFlare only offers security to Business and Enterprise customers. Granted they get more security like the Web Application Firewall but free users get some basic protection from DDoS and bots. CloudFlare allows 3 custom page rules for free accounts which we can use to … Learn more…
Memcached is a high speed caching system for storing objects in RAM. It works well with WordPress and WooCommerce as an object cache for storing transients so they are not stored in the MySQL database. On WooCommerce particularly object caching can help considerably because of the number of transients used by plugins and orders. Unix sockets … Learn more…
WPScan is a WordPress vulnerability scanner written in Ruby. Sucuri sponsored WPScan which hosted on github. With its security vulnerability database for WordPress core, plugins and themes hackers can get a report on your site’s known security problems which can be exploited. You can install WPScan yourself on Debian 8 (guide) or Ubuntu 16.04 (guide). WPScan provides multiple ways … Learn more…
CloudFlare is a pretty sweet free security, firewall and acceleration service that I use on all my WordPress sites. The old CloudFlare API is being retired shortly (November 2016, source). Since the CloudFlare v4 API is already live, I wanted to be prepared for the new API switch. I use fail2ban to protect my wp-login … Learn more…
Suhosin hosted on github is a PHP security extension. Suhosin can protect you from insecure code and possible buffer overflows. Install Suhosin on your VPS or dedicated server only takes a few minutes and could protect you from poorly coded WordPress plugins. This tutorial was tested on Debian 7 (Wheezy), 8 (Jessie) and Ubuntu 14.04 … Learn more…