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WordPress is the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), and is estimated to have been installed on over 27 million websites worldwide. Part of the reason for WordPress’s…
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the system that converts domain names (domain.com) into IP addresses (1.2.3.4). The DNS system is built around three main components; Parent Nameservers…
When you add a domain to Cloudflare you have a choice of either enabling proxied (orange-cloud icon) or non-proxied (grey-cloud icon) DNS traffic through Cloudflare. When traffic is…
After installing OpenLitespeed with DirectAdmin you may want to access the OpenLitespeed Admin Dashboard to view or check settings, etc. The dashboard is accessed by changing the access…
While WordPress excels in its powerful user management system by allowing users to create accounts for your membership, multi-author or e-commerce website, by default the WordPress login page…
Using a Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) is a high effective tool to fight spam. An RBL works by maintaining a list of IP addresses and domains that are…
When ModSecurity is used with OpenLiteSpeed it will improve the security of your server by applying a Web Application Firewall (WAF). The ModSecurity WAF increases the protection level…
When you attract a visitor to your website, you want them to stick around for as long as possible and the more informed your visitors are, the more…
With the announcement made in December 2020 by the CentOS Project to shift the focus from being a free community-driven open source ecosystem focused on delivering a robust…
When you visit a website your web browser will download the files (css, js and images) needed to render (display) the page properly. These files are then placed…
When taking screenshots with macOS you will find these screenshot images are saved to your desktop by default. This in itself it is not an issue but if…
Ideally when serving text-based resources (HTML, CSS and JavaScript files) to your website visitors you should be serving them with compression enabled. This will minimise the time taken…
When using DirectAdmin we recommend you use Rspamd rather than SpamAssassin as your email spam filtering system. While they both provide the same quality of spam filtering, Rspamd…