Varnish demands experience and keeping an eye on your server. For that reason, test this guide on a non-production, non-money-making site with SSL. It will cost $5/month or less to host such a WordPress site on a VPS. If you manage the HTTPS site with Varnish for a couple of months, you'll gain some confidence. If ever Varnish started to throw errors on your production server, you have to … [Read more...]
How To Remove Query Strings From WordPress For Security
Previously shown how to use the hacking tools like sqlmap to test own WordPress for SQL Injection in White Hat way. We also talked about SQL Injection. Here is how to remove query strings from WordPress for security specially to avoid MySQL injections via PHP files for server running Apache2. For Nginx, we talked about how to remove ?utm_source like query strings in older article. Query strings … [Read more...]
Optimizing Apache 2.x With TLS, HTTP/2 : Part 1
We have some previous guides to optimize Apache2 and optimize Nginx with TLS and HTTP/2 (if you are interested about them, please use the searching this website feature). Here is first part on optimizing Apache 2.x with TLS HTTP/2. In this guide we will optimise general performance part, not TLS and HTTP/2. There are a variety tools that can assist in determining if the server admin needs to alter … [Read more...]
Why Apache Is Superior Than Nginx?
We have lot of guides on Nginx configuration. Then why we are saying that odd statement as title? Why Apache is superior than Nginx? The person who developed Nginx, is an Apache HTTP Server expert. He realised at that time that, Apache, being a Free Software managed By Apache Software Foundation is not suitable to easily make money. It was obvious that at least at that time Apache was resource … [Read more...]