Every website owner uses analytics of some sort or another to track visits to their site, and other related metrics like referrals, conversions, etc. I remember way back in 2004, using basic scripts that just provided a bare log of visitors and their referrals. And how far we’ve come from then! But we all face […]
Clear Cloudflare Caches After WordPress Updates to Avoid Errors
A few days back, we got the new version of WordPress – 5.3. My hosting settings are configured to automatically update WordPress to all the latest versions, so when I logged into my admin screen a few days later, it was already up to date. As I was composing a new post in my MS […]
WordPress 5.3 – Here’s What’s New
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 […]
Don’t Chase Google Algorithm Updates
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 […]
Now You Can See How Slow Google Thinks Your Pages Are
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 […]
How To Add A Location To The PATH Variable In Linux
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” […]
How To Compile And Install A Package From Source
When you first take control of your Linux server on NameHero, you’ll have a lot of set up to do. There is the security aspect, for which you need to harden the server. Then you have to install the usual software like a web server, and whatnot. Most of the time, you’ll be working with […]
Getting Started With The vi Editor In Linux
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 – […]
Create A Strong Memorable Password With Diceware
Continuing with the security-related posts for this month, today I’ll show you how to create strong passwords that are easy to remember. I’ve been using this technique for years now, and the passwords I use are my “best” passwords to date. I’ve written before about how it’s counterproductive to ask your employees to change their […]
Forcing Users To Change Passwords Often, Doesn’t Work
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 […]