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Add SSL to WordPress

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:00:37 +0000

I had to add SSL to WordPress recently. I’d tried it before without success, but this time it was surprisingly easy. My downtime was minutes, at most, and I saw a small bump in traffic within days. My walkthrough assumes

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Finding and blocking an abusive host from your Apache log

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:07:41 +0000

My web site slowed to a crawl last night, my CPU usage soared to 100%, and my built-in security measures weren’t helping. I ended up having to do some old-school Linux sysadmin work to stop them. I haven’t been an

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Another easy Apache tweak

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:30:34 +0000

I ran my site through Google Page Speed on Tuesday, and scored a surprising 88 out of 100–higher than I expected. Getting above 90 is going to take some optimizations on files that WordPress updates may change, so I’m hesitant

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Use Apachebench to test your webserver optimizations

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:18:05 +0000

If your web server is slow and you want to fix it, it’s nice to be able to quantify what you got. Enter Apachebench, which is part of Apache and probably already on your server. The Apachebench caveat Usage is

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DROP DATABASE wordpress;

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:55:02 +0000

This week, I doubled back down in earnest to get my webserver running on the hardware I bought a year ago. After getting Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on the box and playing together nice, I installed WordPress and got

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Tag your imported WordPress content with Simple Tags

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:27:49 +0000

Unlike many bloggers, I blogged for a decade before moving to WordPress. That meant I had a pile of old posts with no tags on them. One of the nice things about WordPress is that you can use the tags

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Four simple steps to optimize WordPress

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:02:19 +0000

A couple of years ago, I stood up a WordPress server. I made no effort to tune it, let alone turbocharge it, which is a decision I later came to regret. If your site gets more than a few hundred

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A minor (but vital) Apache performance tweak

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:57:54 +0000

My problems seem to have become more rare since I started blocking spambots and tuned PHP and Apache but last night my server ran out of memory again and started timing out. It turns out I still had a critical

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Cutting Apache preforks seems to help small web servers

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:05:41 +0000

I’ve had a ton of downtime this week (this seems to be the busy time of year for my web server), but I think I traced the problem to a known issue. My server has a 1.5 GHz single-core CPU

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Webserver Wednesday

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:14:17 +0000

Yesterday must have been Webserver Wednesdsay, because two things happened. A new version of Apache was released, and a new tool for testing the vulnerability of webservers to denial of service (DoS) was released. First, Apache 2.2.20 was released. This

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