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Test your hosting disk and network speed

Posted on July 20, 2018

Speed of your page loading depends on various factors – how “heavy” your scripts are, what CPU is installed on your server, amount of RAM, […]

Linux

Redirect to HTTPS with .htaccess

Posted on June 7, 2018

Put the following text in your .htaccess file and change it to match your domain. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://blog.hosting.guru/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond […]

apache, Linux, Security

Compiling PHP7 on server with (old) MySQL 5.6

Posted on April 26, 2018

If you ever need to compile PHP7.0+ on a server where you still are running old MySQL and configuration script complains about not being able […]

Linux, MySQL, PHP

How to scan for new disks on VPS without reboot

Posted on April 22, 2018

VPS has become a new standard in Hosting world. They have become stable, fast and scalable. Here is a small tip for those, who would […]

Linux, Security

Force linux server reset commands, when reboot does not work

Posted on April 13, 2018

Rare, but happens, that servers hang. And even more rare that they don’t respond on reboot commands. And what if you are out hiking with […]

Security

MariaDB 10.2 strict mode settings and compatability with the old code

Posted on February 6, 2018

In MariaDB 10.2 and MySQL 5.7 strict mode is enabled by default. Strict mode tells server to reject SQL queries, that does not pass table […]

MySQL

[FIXED] WordPress administrator not allowed to update or install plugins

Posted on January 19, 2018

This is just a tip, as this is not a bug, but a feature. So if you are WordPress admin user, but you miss some […]

Security, Wordpress

Find injected PHP code

Posted on January 12, 2018

When hackers and spammers decide they want to abuse your website and misuse it for their own benefit and they succeed on it – they […]

PHP, Security, Wordpress

Converting MP4 to GIF inside shell on Centos7

Posted on December 19, 2017

If for any reason you need to convert video MP4 into GIF – you most likely gonna hit tons of links talking about FFMPEG doing […]

Linux

How to remove responsive images from WordPress theme

Posted on December 7, 2017

Today one of our client, a photographer, asked – when I upload images to my website (running wordpress), my images appear with poor quality. As […]

PHP, Wordpress