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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 [...]

Adding Old /home Docs to a New System

This is pretty obvious for many, but just to be clear for noobs, or those migrating from a previous Ubuntu system to a new one for the first time. If you're migrating from a [...]

Categories: pc

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) .. The V-P-S Bible

Welcome to the_guv's 20 part VPS how-to bible, complete with video tutorials. If you are outgrowing your shared host, are paying big bucks for a managed VPS or want to [...]

Categories: web development

Maintain Unmanaged VPS – Part 4: Create or Bin MySQL DBs using the Terminal

This how-to guide maps out two pretty basic but handy MySQL operations, creating and binning a database, using the terminal interface. Sure, you can do those with, say, [...]

Categories: web development

The Fine Art of WP Upgrades. Wait up!

You click on the shiny upgrade button on your WP Dashboard, but then something is broken - a plugin, a function, whatnot. Easy tiger, not so fast .. A typical scenario:- The [...]

Categories: blogging