Using Noabort to fix Wordfence issues on Litespeed

by Russ Michaels | Sep 6, 2024 | Tech Tips, WEBBY STUFF, WordPress

Running the security plugin "Wordfence" on Litespeed servers under their recommended settings can lead to your website experiencing performance issues and errors. This is due to incorrect advice by Wordfence when running with Litespeed. The Possible Symptoms Some symptoms of this issue may include the following: When requesting your website it times out before the page is loaded. cPanel shows the resource usage for CPU Usage and/or Physical Memory at 100%. Requests become slower to complete....

GoDaddy Hack Spreads to 6 More Web Hosts

by Russ Michaels | Nov 26, 2021 | Security, Tech News, WordPress

More bad news!!! The hack that exposed the details of 1.2 million GoDaddy customers has spread to six more web hosts. As Search Engine Journal reports, the six additional web hosts are all resellers of GoDaddy's WordPress hosting services and include the following hosts. 123RegDomain FactoryHeart InternetHost EuropeMedia TempletsoHost. Customers of at least two of these web hosting companies have been sent emails very similar to the one GoDaddy sent out...

GoDaddy hacked! Over 1 million websites affected

by Russ Michaels | Nov 25, 2021 | Security, Tech News, WordPress

GoDaddy Managed WordPress hosting customers suffered a massive data breach. Passwords have been reset but the effects of the hack may still be persist. Over one million GoDaddy hosting customers suffered a data breach in September 2021 that went unnoticed for two months. GoDaddy described the security event as a vulnerability. Security researchers indicate that the cause of the vulnerability was due to inadequate security that did not meet industry best practices. The statement by GoDaddy...

Does using SSL make my website secure?

by Russ Michaels | Sep 5, 2020 | Security, WordPress

The short answer to this question NO, using SSL does not make your website secure, but it is important to understand why and what SSL actually does, so read on. The biggest misconception by website owners is that an SSL certificate will magically make their website secure from hackers and malware, which is not true. This stems from a lack of understanding about what makes a website secure versus not secure. For example, since July 24th 2018, websites that do not use SSL certificates have been...

Lets Encrypt vs Paid SSL Certificates

by Russ Michaels | Feb 7, 2020 | Security, WEBBY STUFF, WordPress

Common questions I get asked by clients include:- "why does my website say not secure", "do I need SSL", "why do I need SSL, I don't sell anything on my website" and "what is the difference between paid SSL and free SSL", so I will attempt to answer those questions here as simply as possible. In an age where internet security is more important than ever, it’s vital to let people know that your site is safe to use. A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate is a type of website encryption key...

How to reliably send email from your website

by Russ Michaels | Sep 8, 2019 | Tech Stuff, WEBBY STUFF, WordPress

Solving email delivery problems Almost all websites need to send out emails for one reason or another, whether you are sending out emails from WordPress or any other CMS system, the most common reason being your contact form, but there are plenty of other emails which website owners often do not consider when checking email deliverability, such as:- Notifications to your blog or newsletter subscribers. Plugin notificationsNotifications, warnings or reports from your security pluginscomments on...

Keeping WordPress updated with Installatron

by Russ Michaels | May 15, 2019 | WordPress

As everyone knows by now, the biggest reason for hacked WordPress Websites is lack of maintenance, resulting in vulnerabilities caused by out of date WordPress core, plugins and themes. IT is critical to keep your WordPress installation up to date as well as all your themes and plugins, failing to do so will result in your website having vulnerabilities that cybercriminals can take advantage of to get access to your website, install malware, redirect your traffic, use your site to DDOS other...

Litespeed Cache issues on WordPress Multisite

by Russ Michaels | Apr 25, 2019 | WordPress

So I fairly recently moved all my WordPress websites to Guru (which I am happy with BTW) who use LiteSpeed server. As a result I also switched over to the Litespeed cache plugin. This was working fine for about 1 month, then I started getting some weird and unwanted behavior, probably after installing updates. On every single page on my site (this one) I was getting a background image inserted that was nothing to do with my site at all as well as some other random layout and menu issues. I...

How to fix WordPress “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance”

by Russ Michaels | Apr 3, 2019 | WordPress

So you have most likely performed an update on your WordPress site, which has resulted in your site being down with the message “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute”. Don’t panic as this error is fairly easy to fix, read on to find out how. What causes this error? Whenever you perform an update in WordPress, such as updating a theme or plugin, WordPress automatically puts itself into maintenance mode. And during this maintenance mode, it displays the “Briefly...

Review of guru.co.uk WordPress hosting

by Russ Michaels | Feb 21, 2019 | Hosting, WordPress

GURU is another host which I am seeing recommended more often on my WordPress groups, as usual with lots of positive feed and great reviews on Trustpilot, but nowhere near as much as the likes of SiteGround, which is easily the most popular recommendation. So in my quest to find something better than SiteGround, Guru were next on my list.

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Using Noabort to fix Wordfence issues on Litespeed

GoDaddy Hack Spreads to 6 More Web Hosts

GoDaddy hacked! Over 1 million websites affected

Does using SSL make my website secure?

Lets Encrypt vs Paid SSL Certificates

How to reliably send email from your website

Keeping WordPress updated with Installatron

Litespeed Cache issues on WordPress Multisite

How to fix WordPress “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance”

Review of guru.co.uk WordPress hosting

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