Lately I’ve been posting some rather technical articles but today I would like to talk about a few tricks I’ve learned over the years to speed up a wordpress site. Most of the work involved is done on wordpress itself and very little time is used tweaking the server.
These tips will help you speed up your site but it will also reduce the resources needed and you’ll be able to serve more clients than before without crashing your server !
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A powerful language like PHP can give life and great functionality to your site but it can also destroy it. With this guide we’ll help you disable some of the most dangerous PHP functions out there.
It will prevent most PHP shells from doing what they do best as well as protect you from poorly coded applications.
We do this for our clients as part of our Server hardening package.
If you ever had to deal with big mailman lists on busy servers you know that sometimes things can go wrong, mails never make it to the intended recipients, bounces start to pop up everywhere and more.
One would imagine that given all the different log files that mailman has there should be sufficient information on them to solve any and all issues but as you probably know already that’s not the case.
One of the first things we do here at Ultimate Server Management is to secure /tmp /var/tmp and /dev/shm to prevent common exploits and rootkits from having their way with a server. This method doesn’t prevent users from uploading content to those directories but it disables their direct execution and the suid buffer overflow exploit.
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