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Protecting your server from malicious attacks is paramount in today´s digital landscape. Fail2ban, a robust log-parsing application, serves as a vigilant guardian, monitoring system logs for signs of automated assaults on your VPS instance. As you delve into this tutorial, you’ll gain insights into harnessing Fail2ban’s capabilities to fortify your server’s defenses. How Fail2ban Works When Fail2ban identifies and locates an attempted compromise using your chosen parameters, it will add a new rule to iptables to block the IP address from which the attack originates. This restriction will stay in effect for a specific length of time or on a…

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NGINX is a web server designed for use cases involving high volumes of traffic. It’s a popular, lightweight, high-performance solution. One of its many impressive features is that it can serve static content (media files, HTML) efficiently. NGINX utilizes an asynchronous event-driven model, delivering reliable performance under significant loads. This web server hands dynamic content off to FastCGI, CGI, or alternative servers (including Apache), before it’s sent back to NGINX for delivery to clients. NGINX, renowned for its lightweight architecture and efficient handling of high traffic, contrasts with Apache, a longstanding and widely-used web server. While Apache excels in versatility…

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When the DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error occurs, you’ll see a message displayed on your computer screen to inform you that your browser is unable to locate the server IP address. That can be incredibly annoying, as it will stop you from visiting and using the website entirely. However, you can use one of the several straightforward methods to solve this issue. Join us as we explore the common causes for the DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error, ways to identify them, and techniques to fix it. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN Explained What Causes This Error? How to Fix the DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN Error The DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN Error Message on Different Internet Browsers…

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Each year, WordPress seeks to collect high-level data about trends and themes across the vast ecosystem of users, site builders, extenders, and contributors to help inform decision-making and provide valuable feedback on the project’s status.  For 2023, the survey process was updated to enhance accessibility, usability, analysis, and multilingual support. Additionally, a few questions were replaced or updated to ensure the survey captures relevant data on current and future WordPress topics. The data collected is used as one of many signals that inform the project’s road map and areas of focus, both near and long-term.
For 2023, the survey process was updated to enhance accessibility, usability, analysis, and multilingual support. Additionally, a few questions were replaced or updated to ensure the survey captures relevant data on current and future WordPress topics. I use the data collected from this survey as one of many signals to inform the project’s road map and areas of focus, both near and long-term.

WordPress 6.5 Beta 1 is now ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you evaluate Beta 1 on a test server and site.

Despite the rapid technological advancements of recent years, one thing remains clear: email is here to stay. Amidst the proliferation of new communication channels and the disruption of the AI revolution, email continues to stand tall as the backbone of professional communication. With the rise of remote work and the need for seamless email management across multiple devices, choosing the right email client becomes paramount. That’s why webmail clients are so attractive: they make sending and receiving emails through remote and local mail servers easier than ever. And they provide this convenience through IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 protocols. Amidst the…

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January kicked off with big plans for the WordPress project in the year ahead. Work on the WordPress 6.5 release is underway, with Beta 1 scheduled for next week and early testing opportunities. Let’s catch up on all the exciting updates from the past month. Looking at 2024 In a recent episode of WP Briefing, […]

In the latest WordPress Briefing, Josepha Haden Chomphosy explores the reasons for choosing a website supporting your digital presence, covering topics from trust-building to professionalism to owning a unique online domain.

Plesk Obsidian is the new generation of the very popular Plesk control panel for website hosts. Plesk Obsidian has numerous advanced features and includes support for the latest tech, including Git, AutoSSL and Docker. Plesk Hardware Requirements As any other complex software solution, Plesk Obsidian is dependent on hardware resources. Plesk Minimum Requirements The minimum amount of RAM required for installing and running Plesk on Linux is 1 GB + 1 GB swap. On Windows – 2 GB of RAM. The minimum amount of free disk space required for installing and running Plesk is 20 GB on Linux and 32…

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Imagine a more open web where people can switch between any platform of their choosing. A web where being locked into a system is a thing of the past. This is the web I’ve always wanted to see. That’s why I announced a new initiative called Data Liberation for 2024. Migrating your site to WordPress, […]

Curious about WordPress’s big-picture items for 2024? Phase 3, Data Liberation, new meetups, and more, get the spotlight in this episode. Join Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy for all this, plus a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks.

As 2023 came to a close, WordPress bid farewell with the much-anticipated annual State of the Word and the 6.5 roadmap, among other exciting updates. Read on to learn more about the community’s end-of-year celebrations and catch a sneak peek of what’s in store for the year ahead. Highlights from State of the Word On […]

In this guide we will help you to understand better what is the difference between MariaDB and MongoDB. What is MariaDB? MariaDB, emerging in 2009, stands as a significant fork of the widely-used open-source database system, MySQL. The inception of MariaDB was primarily influenced by the acquisition of MySQL AB by Oracle Corporation, leading to concerns within the MySQL community regarding the future of the project’s open-source commitment. Developed by Monty Widenius, one of the original creators of MySQL, MariaDB was designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, ensuring compatibility and ease of transition for existing MySQL users. The…

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In this episode, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy reflects on the recent 2023 State of the Word, which took place in Madrid, Spain, and some of the highlights of the work across the WordPress open source project.