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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 [...]

RAM up Your SWAP for Improved Stability

Clearly, the order of the day is to RAM your machine up to the hilt, but enhancing the use of the swap file can also be a benefit. Here's how, using Swappiness. Why? Because [...]

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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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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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VPS Bible Updated with New Nginx/WordPress Versions

The VPS Bible has been updated - and fully tested - to reflect the latest stable releases for Nginx (0.7.64) and WordPress (2.9.1). Dependency packages remain the same. The [...]

Categories: web development