How To Secure Invision Power Board (IPB)
This guide will show you how to increase the security of an Invision Power Board (IPB) installation. We’ll walk through practical examples for you to follow to harden IPB, reducing your attack surface....
View ArticleIs Cloudflare’s Paid Pro Plan Worth It? Speed Test Results
Cloudflare is a widely used content distribution network (CDN) which is freely available to help speed up your website by caching various contents at locations around the world. While I have been...
View ArticleWindows IIS Speed Test Benchmark – 2017 Results
Following on from my recent Linux web server benchmarks, I’m going to be performing the same tests on all current generations of Microsoft’s IIS web server. Here I’ll be performing benchmarks against...
View ArticleLinux VS Windows Web Server Benchmarks
Following on from my recent Linux web server benchmarks and Windows web server benchmarks, I noticed that in general IIS appeared to perform better than all Linux based web servers that I’d previously...
View ArticleHow To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx, Caching And A CDN
This WordPress based website loads fairly quickly, or at least I’d like to think so based on my testing. In this post I’m going to share some of the things that I’ve setup in order to get the fastest...
View ArticleWhere Is The Apache Configuration File In CentOS?
How can we find where the default configuration files for the httpd package in CentOS are located? By using the RPM command we can query a package to find all of its associated configuration files....
View ArticleHow To Setup A LAMP Web Server With CentOS 7 Linux
With the correct packages we can quickly setup a simple CentOS 7 server to run a full LAMP stack. This will turn our Linux system into a web server capable of serving out dynamic content from a...
View ArticleWhere Is The php.ini Configuration File In CentOS?
How can we find the default configuration files for the PHP packages in CentOS Linux? By using the RPM command we can query a package to find all of its associated configuration files. Failing that we...
View ArticleThe Importance of HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
The HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) header can be used to increase the security of a website. In this post we’ll discuss how it works, why it’s important and why you should consider using the...
View ArticleHow To Install IIS In Windows Server 2019
Here we’re going to show you how to install the Internet Information Services (IIS) web server version 10.0 in Microsoft’s Windows Server 2019 operating system. This can be done both with PowerShell or...
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