VPSBasics
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
One of the pieces of essential security software installed on many servers is ModSecurity, which is sometimes referred to as Modsec and enables a web application firewall for…
The term bot is frequently used throughout the internet and is ultimately used to describe a computer program that automates actions or tasks over the Internet. While a…
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…