Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
Sometimes when checking my VPS logs, I’ll see a large number of attempts to access PHP files on my server. These files will be of different names and different paths – all attempting to probe my site for weaknesses, find expired plugins to exploit, and more. And this is after I protect my WordPress site […]
When navigating through the shell, I’m often logged in with dangerous privileges. I try and minimize the potential damage by logging in as a user with sudo privileges, but it can still be a nerve-wracking experience knowing that an accidental click of a key or a moment’s thoughtlessness can bring your entire system crashing down. […]
If you’re not careful, your Linux system will become full of unused and discarded packages you installed a long time ago, and don’t use anymore. What’s worse, often when you install a particular program, it comes with a list of dependencies that get installed along with it. Ideally, you would want to get rid of […]
Earlier, I’d written a tutorial on how to install memcached on a VPS that integrates with PHP. In this tutorial, I’ll write about how to do the same with Redis. Like memcached, Redis is another caching mechanism that can speed up reads and writes by using your (much faster) RAM instead of accessing the database […]
If you’re running WordPress on a VPS – managed or unmanaged – your web hosting provider won’t include memcached as part of the installation. A managed VPS takes care of OS updates, setting up the control panel, e-mail, etc., but only goes so far. Unlike shared hosting, where your web host might have a checkmark […]
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 […]