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Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 6: Harden the Secure Shell (SSH) & Create a Firewall

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Part 6: Solidify your remote OpenSSH connection and set up a firewall using iptables. Just copy and paste the code [...]

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 4: Create a Linux User & Set Permissions

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Part 4: Don’t log into Linux as root, with the trigger-happy permissions that gives. Better to create a user with SuperUser permissions [...]

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 3: Set Up Command Line Interface (CLI) using PuTTY

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Part 3: Use PuTTY & OpenSSH to setup a secure tunnelled connection with authentication keys & simplify login to a double-click, password-free process [...]

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 2: Set Up a VPS Linux Distribution

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Part 2: Set up a VPS account and choose, configure & launch a Linux distribution. [...]

Video How-To: Save Money with Promo Codes – Nice & Easy

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Buying online? Wanna save a few bucks? Got 5 mins? This video shows you how, using promomotion codes, nice ‘n easy. [...]

Video How-to: Install WordPress – Nice ‘n Simple

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

So you wanna blog, huh? And you’ve looked at the options, and like WordPress. Me too! And you like the expandability and personalisation that a Wordpress standalone install gives, but are put off by the installation process? … Don’t be. [...]

Video How-to: 10 Tips To Make WordPress Hack-Proof

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

“WordPress – Be Secure Not Hacked!” 10 easy steps; How to upgrade, update/hide plugins, change db prefix & turn off errors, delete “admin”, password, hide version, remove WP meta tag, create .htaccess file. Prevention is better than cure, all that…

Friday Fun: Charlie the Unicorn

Friday, February 20th, 2009

A YouTube classic, Charlie The Unicorn has been viewed over 30 million times. If it rocks your socks, you can check out the sequel, plus other ridiculous stuff…

Video How-to: Backup & Restore a Database with phpMyAdmin

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

See just how fast ‘n easy it is to backup & restore a db with phpMyAdmin. Plus, for WordPress, how to use wp-phpmyadmin to secure your WordPress db…

WordPress Upgrade Error Solved – Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction()

Monday, February 16th, 2009

If you’ve tried upgrading WordPress and received an error like this…

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction()

…here’s what you do…