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I'm a NameHero team member, and an expert on WordPress and web hosting. I've been in this industry since 2008. I've also developed apps on Android and have written extensive tutorials on managing Linux servers. You can contact me on my website WP-Tweaks.com!
Updated: July, 7 2023 If you’re using the latest version of PHP, your site will automatically have OPCache enabled. This is great news for us because we no longer have to install it manually. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to manage your OP cache and check if it’s working correctly. What Is OPCache? […]
I had struggled for a while to find the answer to this vexing error clogging up my CSF logs. I’ve written before about the ConfigServer Security & Firewall plugin for VPS and dedicated servers, and how to add log files for monitoring. But whenever I opened my Apache httpd error_log file, it was filled with […]
Updated: May 1, 2023 One of the ways you can speed up your dynamic page generation is by increasing the amount of RAM your database uses for storing its queries and temporary objects. For WordPress sites, this is called the InnoDB buffer pool size. A lot of people on shared hosting don’t have the permissions […]
Sometimes a perfect confluence of events proves what you’ve suspected all along. And when it comes to SEO, I’ve had a hunch about BS emanating from Google and fawning SEOs for years. Of course, the latest evidence shows that Google lied to us about AMP. The person presiding over this misinformation is John Mueller, but […]
The ConfigServer Security and Firewall plugin for your VPS does a better job at managing your server’s firewall than the default option. In addition to being more user-friendly, it has a bunch of useful features that I wouldn’t want to do without. One of the more useful features is the ability to monitor a long […]
Under what circumstances can we safely disable ClamAV – the ubiquitous antivirus on a Linux server? I recently migrated my site WP-Tweaks to a NameHero “Managed Cloud” VPS. The increased dedicated resources make my site hum along nicely – operations that used to take a long time were near-instantaneous. I’ve often found myself randomly opening […]
The other day, I had a problem with my server, where I got an e-mail saying that some SSL certificates were about to expire. These came with the original VPS, and I’d already installed my own SSL certificates, so I wasn’t worried about my webserver going down. However, I WAS worried that something else might […]
I’ve been excited about QUIC.cloud for a long time. I’ve often viewed them as a possible competitor to Cloudflare, and while I love Cloudflare, it’s always good to have competition. QUIC.cloud’s dynamic caching and integration with the LiteSpeed plugin was always superior to Cloudflare’s APO (Automatic Platform Optimization). But full integration with QUIC.cloud was always […]
By default, all NameHero VPS servers come installed with the ConfigServer Security & Firewall (csf) plugin. But if you don’t have it on your server, I strongly suggest that you install it. It’s invaluable. After setting up the CSF firewall on your VPS server, you might see a message in the CSF logs talking about […]
I recently migrated to a new VPS server and needed to import a public key for my backup service so that I wouldn’t have to hand out a username/password combination. It had been a while since I’d used SSH for anything and didn’t feel like taking the time to learn everything from scratch again, so […]