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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 [...]

Guvnr Gets Steroids – Pursuing The Holy Grail of Less HTTP Requests

An often overlooked blog or web site improvement is reducing HTTP requests. Good for page load, improved usability, SEO and ultimately for traffic. Normally I wouldn't bother [...]

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Improve Your PC with Driver Updates

Here's how to ensure your Ubuntu-driven PC is up-to-date with the latest hardware drivers. The hardware drivers required varies, of course, from machine to machine. Ubuntu [...]

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Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 8: PHP5, MySQL and Xcache (for Platforms like WordPress)

Bolt on PHP5 for server-side web applications, Xcache to speed things up and MySQL to handle our databases. And tweak that lot for optimum performance of platforms from [...]

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Video How-to: Backup & Restore a Database with phpMyAdmin

Phpwhatnot? Aargh! Scary? It's not. How often do you backup your mySQL database? Does the idea fill you with horror? Or do you think the "full backup" option at your ISP [...]

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