My other blog is completely serverless and in this post I will go through the steps, pros and cons to hosting and setting up a serverless blog yourself at a cost of $0 per month. It runs completely on AWS, the static site is stored on S3 and then served…

WordPress security is easy, when you have the right automated tools. When I started using WordPress I did all the site hardening myself, manually. WordPress security hardening is not difficult, especially if you have a background in web application security. You can also find quite a few checklists online and follow them if you are new to WordPress. However, hardening is just the start. WordPress security is a continuous process of hardening > Monitoring > Testing > Improving. So automation is a must, and that is why you need to use multiple tools, such as a WordPress activity log plugin and an online WordPress security service such as Sucuri…

Are you looking to install WordPress on EKS? There are a lot of advantages of moving your site to the cloud-like you can obtain free SSL certificates from Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM). Recently, I helped a client migrate 50 of his WordPress sites to Amazon Kubernetes Service (EKS). Lightsail is…

WordPress is the most popular blogging tool on the internet accounting for approximately 25% of all sites. One of the biggest threats to WordPress is brute force cracking attempts on the login page (wp-login.php) and admin (wp-admin/*) pages. There are various methods of protecting these pages including utilising WordPress plugins…

Introduction Redis is an open-source key value store that can operate as both an in-memory store and as cache. …

I recently inherited a pretty massive site. With over 100,000 posts, 200,000 attachments, and site loads reaching 4000+ visitors and anywhere from 5–9 logged-in authors at any one time, it’s been one of the largest projects I’ve tackled. While a proper reverse-proxy solution can mitigate the majority of the front-end…

The task of deploying CMS in cloud systems is now becoming the de facto standard for many applications. Because CMS WordPress serves a huge proportion of websites on the Internet, users are thinking about saving resources and budget and increasing system resiliency. There are many ways to solve the scaling problem in cloud systems that work well with CMS. One of the common options is to use Amazon Aurora.

WordPress is the leading choice for websites. It’s an excellent way to manage dynamic content. It’s open-source, so you can add third-party code or write your own to enhance it. It has some issues, though. You have to keep up with updates to maintain security. It’s all written in interpreted…

The SEO landscape of the future is a volatile place. And do you know why? The powers that be (aka Google) are doing their best to build a better, faster and secure web for all of us. Of course, they stand to benefit ten times more, but who cares? …