Introduction Ever checked your server logs and seen thousands of failed login attempts? I did and it was a wake up call. Here’s how Fail2ban helped me go from nearly 6,000 failed logins to almost zero in just a few days. When I wrote my last article, I shared two graphs that told a pretty … Read more
Hosting your own WordPress site is not for the squeamish. However, if you’re like me and you like full control of your site and have the means to host it, why not? It can take a lot of work, considering that foreign adversaries will try to brute force their way into the login page. I … Read more
THE ERRORS Recently I was working on moving from an old version of WordPress to a newer version. I needed to export my data from the older system and import it to my new system. In order to do that, I had to have a plugin that would allow me to do import and export … Read more
Purchase a Certificate If you are interested in securing your site, and you are the administrator for the site, follow these steps. These steps are for creating and installing an SSL certificate on a Apache server. However, on other web servers it will be similar but I recommend looking for other documentation. One can purchase … Read more
