WordPress is a secure-ish system by default but there are still several things that can be changed to make it a more secure environment.…
Webmaster Tutorials
Wordpress
Beginner: How to embed media into a WordPress blog post
Whether the goal is to get your message put across in different ways, engage with web site visitors using richer media, increase visiting time…
Make Money Online Tips
Screen Real Estate – 4 Ways to Optimize Productivity
Anyone who’s started any type of business online will tell you, time management is one of the most difficult things to master in working…
CentOS
Dev: How To Install CentOS, Nginx, MySQL, PHP On VirtualBox From Official RPM
In this guide, I want to take a closer look at VirtualBox and how you can quickly set up a CentOS box with LEMP…
SEO Tips And Strategies
How to make your Drupal URL look human
When you try to develop a Drupal page and you’re rather new at it, you might find yourself running into difficulties in relation to…
Webmaster Tutorials
Pligg Installation: How To Properly Install Pligg 2.0 For Your Community (on WHM)
In this short guide, I will walk you through the Pligg installation. If you have any questions regarding SSH or permissions, feel free to…
Productivity
5 Online Productivity Tools for Keeping Yourself On Track
Looking for more ways to stay focused when working online? If not, you most certainly should be. I write about productivity a lot because,…
Security
Recent Botnet WordPress Attack: How to Secure a WordPress Website
In light of the recent WordPress attack where a botnet of “tens of thousands” of computers tried gaining access to WordPress blogs across the…
CentOS
DU: How To Validate Linux Server Backups Using Directory Size
Rsync is a pretty reliable tool to sync files from your server to a remote server, but how would you validate that all files…
Wordpress
Turning Your WordPress Blog into a Social Network: BuddyPress vs. Mingle
There are numerous possibilities of things you can do with WordPress. Besides using it to power your blog, you can create a full-featured website…
Security
National Cyber Security Awareness Part 1: How To Avoid Online Scams And “Homograph Attacks”
October is the National Cyber Security month. Our webhosting partners Singlehop asked me to write an article to raise awareness for this cause to…
CentOS
How To Install XDebug On CentOS 6.X / WHM Server, Configure PHPStorm And Forward Firewall Ports
If you want to debug PHP sites, you need to install a great deal of programs and you need a decent IDE. In this…
Productivity
8 Productivity Tips for Professional Webmasters
Deciding to make a living as a webmaster means taking on a lot of the kinds of responsibilities employed workers never have to worry…
Outsourcing
Top 8 Outsourcing Networks and Webmaster Forums to Hire People
Outsourcing is a popular way for businesses to cut overhead costs and increase profit margins, while also giving them greater flexibility of online collaboration.…
Affiliate Marketing, Offers And Case-Studies
Productivity Guide: Save Time As A Writer, Affiliate Or Webmaster With AutoHotKey
I considered recently the amount of time that it takes to perform certain tasks on the computer. I implemented a voice recognition app in…
Webmaster Tutorials
Apache 2.2 vs. Apache 2.4: MaxClients and MaxRequestWorkers
Today I received the error “server reached MaxRequestWorkers setting” and was a little confused as I had never heard of this setting before.
Security
Updated: ‘Shell Shock’ Remote Code Exploitation: How To Patch Bash And Determine If Your System Is Vulnerable
A remote code exploitation dubbed ‘Shell Shock’ has been uncovered by Stéphane Chazelas, a security and Linux specialist working for a large software firm.…
CentOS
Fix – Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
One message I encountered the other day when I was installing some RPM’s was “Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.”. Here’s what it means…
Productivity
5 Tips to Maximizing Drupal’s Efficiency
While Drupal is an effective CMS it can be quite draining on your PC as far as your RAM and CPU usage, but there…
Security
20 WordPress Security Tips And Best Practices To Secure Your Blog
In this article we will discuss WordPress security and give you 20 tips to enhance the security of your blog. Tip 1: Consider Htaccess Authentication to…