Caching software allows you to configure your cache such that each time you use a query string, a separate cache is created for it. So you’ll have different caches for the following: style.css?v=1style.css?v=2etc… Personally, I set my cache configuration to “Ignore query strings” because it turns out to be much more efficient, and there are […]
Why I Don’t Use Two Factor Authentication
This is going to be a controversial opinion. I’ve written a lot about website security on NameHero, and best practices for both shared and VPS hosting. So you might think that one of the first things I do is to enable two-factor authentication or 2FA wherever I can. NameHero itself offers the ability to enable […]
Filtering Out “replytocom” Bots On WordPress
I’m always monitoring my traffic to see which requests are causing the most impact on my origin server. I’ve already shown how to protect your WordPress login page using firewall rules and the challenges of rate-limiting. But you need to be on a constant lookout to see what new vulnerabilities are being exploited. If you […]
What Can You Do To Improve Mobile Load Times?
With page speed about to become a ranking factor in May 2021, you need to figure out how to squeeze every last drop of speed out of your website. What’s more, desktop and mobile speeds are calculated differently. Here’s a screenshot of the Core Web Vitals section of my dashboard for my website: You can […]
The Challenges Of Rate Limiting For Websites
I got up today and saw this traffic spike for my site: Sometime this morning, my server was suddenly hit with a flood of demands that bypassed Cloudflare’s cache and hit my server at WP-Tweaks.com directly. Given that I cache all my pages, I was naturally curious to see what this spike was and whether […]
When Hosting Location Doesn’t Matter (And When it Does)
NameHero allows you to choose where to host your website – the US or Europe, with the datacenters being in the Netherlands for the latter. This is great if your visitors primarily come from one area or the other. You can host your server close to them so that they get fast response times from […]
Why There’s No Free Domain With All NameHero Plans
Right now, NameHero offers a free domain with all Turbo and Business cloud plans when purchased for 2 years or more. You’ll notice that the free domain doesn’t come with a “Starter” or “Plus” plan. Why is this? After all, there are plenty of low-cost hosts that give you a free domain on even starter […]
How To Block wp-login.php With Cloudflare
Yesterday when I was checking up on the Cloudflare cache performance for my site WP-Tweaks.com, I saw this: After filtering traffic that made it past my cache to hit the origin server directly, I saw a huge spike of requests in an incredibly short time. What’s more, they were either redirected or gave a 404. […]
What NameHero’s “Unlimited” Storage Means
On the NameHero website, you see that all the web hosting plans have the words “Unlimited Storage” next to them. What’s more, this refers to SSD storage. So it’s not only unlimited but also fast. But is this a realistic promise? If the storage is unlimited, does it mean that you can host websites of […]
How To Fine Tune The Cloudflare Firewall
In an earlier article, I’d written about using Cloudflare and subscribing to the “Pro” plan. Of the many benefits, one of them is the extensive WAF that you can just “set and forget”. It blocks a wide range of threats at no additional impact to your site since the requests are handled on the edge […]