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August 10, 2022
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Securing your WordPress Website This article will discuss the steps you can take to harden and secure your…..
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August 10, 2022
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Protecting the WordPress Login Typical WordPress Login Attacks The WordPress login page is the most popular attack vector…..
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Secure, Protect and Lock Down your WordPress site with Cloudflare Custom WAF Rules (was Firewall Rules)
Jordan
August 10, 2022
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Head to the Juicy Bits. TLDR; This is a huge article that covers a lot of topics. If…..
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August 4, 2022
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I ran into an issue with a site when installing Gravity Forms, it resulted in an error with…..
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August 1, 2022
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Gaining SSH Access Instance Connect User Data Replace Key Pair
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Jordan
July 25, 2022
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WP Intense and Dave Hilditch You may or may not have heard of Dave Hilditch, he’s behind WP…..
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Jordan
July 21, 2022
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Why should you tune MySQL, MariaDB or Percona? The stock configuration for MySQL, MariaDB or Percona is untuned……
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Jordan
June 9, 2022
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What’s Dragonfly? There was a post on the GridPane Community forum (members only) talking about Dragonfly, which is…..
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Jordan
May 24, 2022
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I’ve created this page to track the caveats I’ve found in the GridPane platform. This is an opinion…..
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