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MonsterInsights – The firewall of your server is blocking outbound calls. Please contact your hosting provider to fix this issue.

MonsterInsights Error: The firewall of your server is blocking outbound calls. Please contact your hosting provider to fix this issue. cURL error 28: Failed to connect to www.google.com port 443 after 1201 ms: Couldn’t connect to server This error is caused by cURL (Client for URLs) – a command line tool that is used to … Read full article →

wp ddos - What is 🐱‍💻 Denial-of-Service attack and How to protect WordPress from DDoS attacks

What is 🐱‍💻 Denial-of-Service attack and How to protect WordPress from DDoS attacks

🐱‍💻 Denial-of-Service or DoS attack in short, a DoS attacks tries to create fake traffic to overload your WordPress website, so much so that it becomes unavailable due to hositng/server limits. An extension to DoS is the DDoS attack with stands for Distributed Denial of Service. This one originates from multiple IP addresses. Types of … Read full article →

How to get free WordPress hosting - How to get free WordPress hosting?

How to get free WordPress hosting?

Back in 2010 when I was starting my web development journey, having a website was expensive, especially on a high-school student budget. I had plenty of dumb ideas, and no money to realize all of them (thank God 🙏). So I was looking for shortcuts to save on a domain name and hosting. I will … Read full article →

wp data breach - What is ℹ️ Data breach (information disclosure) and How to prevent WordPress information disclosure

What is ℹ️ Data breach (information disclosure) and How to prevent WordPress information disclosure

Information disclosure, also known as data breach is the unintentional exposure of sensitive information. This sensitive information can be anything from technical information such as plugin versions or hosting plan limits, to users information that should not be made public. Information disclosure is not a hack but allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information that … Read full article →

wpcli regex search - Use Regex with WP CLI to 🔎 Search & Replace in Database

Use Regex with WP CLI to 🔎 Search & Replace in Database

When cleaning websites that have large databases, regular text editors can’t even open the database dumps (Notepad++ supports files up to 2GB in size). So to run a search and replace on large database dumps I suggest using regex-replace line-by-line in PHP, or setting up WPCLI and running regex search & replace. Here is a … Read full article →

WordPress Backup Plugins Benchmark - WordPress Backup Plugins Benchmark

WordPress Backup Plugins Benchmark

I’ve tested the most used WordPress backup plugins and compared their compression level and backup&restore speed. The website on which I performed the tests is a WP blog (pcx3.com) that has 2.7 GB in files and database size is 130.8 MB Tested plugins: New plugins might be added later on. 🙂 Spoiler alert – the … Read full article →