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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 9: Reset a Lost MySQL Password

So you've gone and locked yourself out of MySQL? Feels a bit like leaving the car keys in the trunk, huh? :D Sorry to laugh! But I can, 'cos I'm gonna show you how to get back [...]

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Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 1: VPS (Virtual Private Server) vs Shared vs Dedicated

Outgrown shared hosting? Under-using dedicated? Considering leaving managed to save costs? Need a custom solution? Or just want to set up your own server at a reasonable [...]

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Maintain Unmanaged VPS – Part 5: Get phpMyAdmin Working with Nginx

How to install PMA with Nginx, to administer multiple MySQL dbs from anywhere. View table structure, browse data, run queries, backup and more. Adding phpMyAdmin to the Nginx [...]

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Windows Authenticode Nag Screen

Seen this nag screen? Or rather, this scare screen, from Microsoft? Let me answer that! If you install software from a vendor that hasn't been "approved" by Microsoft, you [...]

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