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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 [...]

Categories: web development

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 6: Harden the Secure Shell (SSH) & Create a Firewall

Having set up our local-to-remote connection and tunnelled it, in this tutorial we'll add a final, cast-iron layer of security, so there. If you're following this series, you [...]

Categories: web development, web pages

HOSTING PROBLEM – Notice to My Splendid Subscribers & Rock-on Readers…

Hey folks, Guv here! Just a quick note to say I've had some pig-ear problems with my hosting provider this last week, and am taking steps to ensure this doesn't happen again. [...]

Categories: blogging

“Microsoft Swindles” – Fighting the Cartel Caper Con Scam, Tsssk!

So I bought a new machine last week and, gparted, have been busily treating it to Ubuntu. It's cooler now. Literally. And I figured, I'm fed up of being forced to pay for an [...]

Categories: pc