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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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, [...]

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How to Disable Windows XP Services

Microsoft is well-known for bloating it's operating systems with a bunch of, well, crap that noone seems to need. Then there are all those functions that someone needs, only [...]

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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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