Monit can be used to monitor your services on your VPS or dedicated server. You can use Monit to make sure MySQL (MariaDB, Percona etc) is always running in case it crashes because of bots brute forcing or it runs out of resources. Monit will check the MySQL process by looking at the unix socket it is … Learn more…
Image optimization is critical for high performing websites. The smaller your images are the less space they take up which is great for desktop and mobile users. Lossy compression yields smaller file sizes than lossless compression. Lossy Compression of PNGs can be done with pngquant hosted on github. This guide will show you how to batch … Learn more…
Sometimes you may find yourself wishing you had a list of all of the post, pages and category URLs of your WordPress or WooCommerce site. For example if you want to batch invalidate posts on Facebook for sharing, it can be very handy to have a text file of all your URLs for easy copy … Learn more…
When you self-host WordPress on your own VPS like Vultr or Digital Ocean you do not get a default ftp user (besides root). You do not want to use the root user or you will get permission errors. This post shows you how to correct the permission problems if you want to have an SFTP … Learn more…
If you forbid certain paths or URLs with nginx to protect content you may want to use fail2ban to ban these 403 requests nginx captures. For example if you have renamed your login page using a plugin then typically the hacker bots will receive a 403 forbidden error when trying to log in. Similarly if … Learn more…