Why rel=author is just as important as keywords

Let’s face it… for the past several years, Google has been the king of search engines. If you are an author of any kind — blogger, writer, content developer web site maintainer, etc — you want what you write to have the best opportunity to show...

Weak passwords and open doors

If you are reading this article, you’ve probably had your share of headaches as to how to create a password for a given application that is easy to remember; and, at the same time hard for hackers to crack open or otherwise break in.   Prior to today, my...

Why installing WordPress manually is more secure

Have you ever watched Restaurant Impossible or Kitchen Nightmares? Where you shocked to see some chefs merely reheating food in a microwave, using canned soup, and other prepackaged or precooked items rather than the chefs being chefs — cooking using fresh...

Digging into local DNS resolution and APF

Over the years, we’ve really enjoyed the various projects created by Ryan MacDonald in terms of helping our customers have more reliable and more secure servers. One of the projects we consistently use and recommend is Ryan’s Advanced Policy Firewall by...