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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!
Yesterday on the 12th of November 2019, Automattic released the latest version of WordPress – v5.3. It’s the last major release for this year and brings a bunch of improvements to the Gutenberg editor, behind the scenes features for developers, and readies WordPress for the upcoming release of PHP 7.4. Here’s the full list of […]
Late last month (October 2019), Google released “BERT” – a new algorithm update. BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, and is basically a complicated way of saying that Google now understands natural search queries better than before. It’s estimated to impact more than 10% of all search queries – a massive change that […]
Google is finally bringing page speed into the mainstream Google interface. So far, we only had Google’s fuzzy statement that page speed is a factor in your Google search rankings. This has been the case for years. To support this, they’ve created lots of tools like PageSpeed insights, and even the Chrome developer tools has […]
When you execute a command in Linux, the Operating System needs to know where to find it. This isn’t unusual since even the Windows CLI has the same requirement. In Windows, the list of locations where the OS searches from the command is specified by the “ENVIRONMENT” variable. In Linux, this is called the “PATH” […]
If you’re starting to manage your own VPS server for the first time, you’ll know that you’re going to have to modify a lot of text files. Just basic steps like disabling root login require you to open up files and make changes. And in Linux, there is one text editor that reigns supreme – […]
October is supposed to be “National Cybersecurity Awareness Month”. So I decided to write a bunch of articles on Linux security. We’ve already covered disabling root access and how to change the SSH port. The next big issue is passwords. People say that we’re moving to a “passwordless” future. They point to the emergence of […]
Part of creating a business identity, is having your own branded e-mail addresses. It’s fine if your site doesn’t depend on customer service, and I’ve seen many businesses get by with a plain old contact form, eschewing e-mail IDs entirely. That’s certainly one way to go! But if you have a lot of back and […]
In my earlier article on creating a new user + shell, I’d explained that it’s a good idea to disable direct root access via SSH. One of the reasons why we see so many failed login attempts, is because spammers constantly bombard servers with fake credentials, searching for a way in. One solution was to […]
The InterWorx interface allows you to create new accounts, which come with the option to enable shell access for each of them. As mentioned in my earlier article on accessing InterWorx, the interface is divided into two sections – SiteWorx and NodeWorx. They correspond to cPanel and WHM respectively. From an administrator’s point of view, […]
In my previous tutorial a few days ago, I’d shown users how to change the default SSH port to which you connect remotely. Today, it’s a standard procedure of “hardening” one’s servers, and it’s not the only situation where you change the defaults in order to thwart spam. Web hosts that install WordPress on their […]