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Guv’s Book: ‘WordPress 3 Ultimate Security’ – Press Release

Some of you will remember or first found this 'lil site off the back of a pretty well-known WordPress security blog post here, Video How-to: 10 Tips To Make WordPress [...]

Maintain Unmanaged VPS – Part 11: Copy Website Files between Windows/Linux Computers using the CLI

Here's how to copy/backup/upload files between Linux & Windows hosts using PuTTY's Secure FTP terminal. Faster, easier and way safer than FTP. If you're using Linux locally [...]

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Maintain Unmanaged VPS – Part 6: Backup a MySQL Database from the Terminal

This guide shows how to save a MySQL database using a terminal, with a simple syntax command. And faster than using phpMyAdmin, for sure. Just replace the db name, username and [...]

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Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 17: Nginx Control Panel Workarounds

No viable panel, huh? OK, so we'll use some super-cool workarounds. Every cPanel module is listed here, together with the copy/paste code for the Nginx-equivalent alternate [...]

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EDIT/INCREASE server_names_hash_bucket_size

If you're using nginx, and your domain name exceeds 32 characters, you may receive an error message when you restart the web server. Quite likely, you need to tell nginx to allow [...]

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