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Avoid being hacked, keep WordPress up to date and enjoy more stability and new features For anyone who’s ever built, maintained, worked with, or owned a WordPress site, they know how common it is to see that “WordPress X.X.X is available! Please update now.” message at the top of their dashboard. Is it really that

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ansible centos - robots building robots

Robots Building Robots Introduction Ansible is a powerful tool for provisioning CentOS on commercial grade linux webservers. In my last article, Webmin Configuration on CentOS, I discussed the steps to setup a new server complete with Webmin and Percona. This is our preferred setup for reliable webservers, but one glance at the article will make

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dmw-screenshot

When DMW Strategic Consulting approached us to redesign their website, we instantly knew it was one of those projects you’d be talking to your friends over a beer or at home with your partner while making dinner. Not so much because of the cool technology you got to implement—that will instantly make your wife yawn

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cloud-

High Performance Server Configuration in the Age-of-the-Cloud Introduction Building web servers for hosting reliable and performant web sites is a black art. I’d like to discuss how we setup our CentOS servers and manage them conveniently using Webmin. We have learned a few things over time and thought it would be valuable to share the knowledge. tl;dr

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