Author: Robin Labadie (LRob)
Web host performance in 2025: test of 10 offers
How do you choose among the many shared web hosting offers? Follow this guide and test the performance of the best-known hosting providers.
WordPress 6.8 is coming: Release date and new features
WordPress 6.8 is on its way and promises to refine the user experience, while optimizing performance, design and security. Scheduled for release on April 15, 2025, this new version should delight users. ℹ️ Is your WordPress site slow, receiving too many attacks or do you need help? Power up your WordPress site like never before with LRob hosting! Sometimes it's hard to figure out what's out there... so we've untangled it for you. Here's what's in store for WordPress 6.8. WordPress 6.8 release schedule...
Nextcloud 31: What's new in this major update?
Nextcloud major version 31.0.0 was released on February 25, 2025. While the official release notes are very short this time, the enhancements are not to be outdone! At LRob, we offer managed Nextcloud instances with updates included, backed up daily, with NVMe SSD storage for maximum performance and Collabora Online integration for complete collaborative working! ➡️ Discover our Nextcloud hosting offers! And the open-source alternative to the cloud giants doesn't disappoint! As it does every 5 to 6 months, Nextcloud continues to innovate to offer an ever more...
Let's Encrypt stops SSL/TLS certificate expiration notifications: Why this is good news
As of June 4, 2025, Let's Encrypt will no longer send you emails to notify you when your SSL/TLS certificates have expired. This change, which may seem surprising, is actually excellent news for system administrators, web hosts and site owners. In this article, we'll look at why this decision simplifies certificate management and improves security. At LRob, our web hosting packages already integrate Let's Encrypt and automate SSL certificate management, ensuring that HTTPS always works without manual intervention. Let's Encrypt: a key player in free, automatic SSL/TLS...
Performance and Security: LRob's strategy for optimal WordPress hosting
High-performance, secure WordPress hosting, without compromise At LRob, our mission is clear: to offer fast, secure WordPress hosting, minimizing the impact of attacks while optimizing server performance. Unlike standard solutions that simply respond to threats, we go further by actively preventing unnecessary server loads. Because while some hosting providers fail to implement sufficient or any attack blocking measures, or offer no transparency at all, LRob can proudly display the measures in place and the results achieved. In this article, we explain our strategy, which is based on three layers of security...
Record attack: 2.8 million IPs compromised: What impact for WordPress hosts?
A new threat of unprecedented scale is rocking the web: 2.8 million compromised network devices are currently being exploited to flood the Internet with malicious requests. At LRob, as a web hosting provider, we've seen a dramatic increase in attacks in recent days. We'll explain how we're effectively blocking them. These attacks are not just a nuisance: they can seriously impact the performance and security of your websites. How does the attack work? What impact does it have on your websites? How can you protect yourself? Here are the answers. Details of the cyber attack Discovery of the...
How to choose the fastest web host in 2025?
Is your web hosting too slow? Your web hosting provider's technological and hardware choices have a direct impact on your website's performance. Yet most hosting providers are vague about their infrastructure and actual performance. As a customer, you often don't know what you're paying for. At LRob, we're trying to do better. Much better. We take a transparent approach: we measure, compare and optimize every parameter, every hardware choice, to guarantee load speeds up to 10x faster than the competition. That's how we try to offer you the best web hosting for WordPress...
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[Video] LRob Interview "Security and Defense Professions
As a secure WordPress host, I had the pleasure of appearing on the MERCI BOBBY channel's «Taffer Comment?» show. The concept of the show 📌 To shed light on professional career paths in the security professions.📌 And for my part, to talk cybersecurity in a self-taught way. But also:An enriching and accessible video, directed by Olecio & THANK YOU BOBBY!Thanks to them for hosting and to Naïm Aouaichia for putting me in touch. I hope I've represented our discipline well while remaining clear for the general public. You tell me! The gist of LRob's speech «All services in...
PHP 8.4 support at your hosting provider - Available now
Your favorite web hosting provider is pleased to announce that PHP 8.4 is now fully supported on your specialized WordPress web hosting. This version brings significant improvements to the language, boosting performance, flexibility and code readability. Here's an overview of the most important new features. Your LRob host supports PHP 8.4 Native support for Plesk arrived on January 21. It will have taken Plesk 2 months, which is longer than usual. It was added to LRob servers on January 24, making it available for your hosting needs. PHP 8.4...
Translate a WordPress site - In one go with TranslatePress
Translating a WordPress site can be a challenge, especially when the automatic translation of a page requires it to be visited beforehand. As a WordPress hosting specialist and WordPress webmaster, I regularly work on multilingual sites with automatic translation. For this, I generally use TranslatePress Developer edition, with the DeepL API to perform this translation. The problem? Translating everything at once isn't natively possible. So we had to find a solution. Discover the solution and save hours! Problem: Translating the whole site at once is not possible. With TranslatePress, translating the content of your...
A critical flaw in W3 Total Cache
The WordFence teams (a WordPress security plugin) have brought to our attention a security flaw CVE-2024-12365, of criticality CVSS 8.5/10. What is W3 Total Cache? W3 Total Cache is a serious, high-performance and highly customizable caching plugin that we highly recommend. Used by more than a million sites, it stands out for its reliability, wide range of settings and Redis cache support. What is the risk of this flaw? The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress presents an unauthorized data access vulnerability due to the lack of capacity checking in the...
Business review 2024
Although I started my business in 2010, it was in September 2023 that I decided to devote myself fully to my web business, focused on hosting, maintenance and specialized creation explicitly on WordPress. So 2024 is the first full year for the «LRob» you know today. So, what about the results? Spoiler: the results are very encouraging! New features and improvements in 2024 2024 was a source of many service improvements at LRob. Here are just a few highlights: And much more. Hosting business 2024 WordPress hosting business takes off! You've been...
Black Friday 2024 at LRob!
From November 29 to December 6, 2024 7 days to enjoy -50% for life on selected hosting! -50% for life on selected annual web hostings Power your site faster than ever, with the maximum security and expert support you've always dreamed of. All with exemplary eco-responsibility! If you're interested in these incredible offers, find out all the details on the dedicated page. -60% on web migrations Entrust your migration to a professional hosting sysadmin for an exact, seamless copy of your content. -45% on repairs and securing...
Symfony: 8 new security vulnerabilities discovered - Analysis and recommendations
On November 6, 2024, after a year without a flaw, Symfony released eight vulnerabilities on its blog. They affect different versions of the Symfony framework. Here's a summary of these critical vulnerabilities, their potential impact, and the solutions implemented by Symfony. Understand the implications of these vulnerabilities for securing your applications. Introduction Even the most renowned frameworks like Symfony are never immune to security flaws. Whatever your application solution, vigilance is essential. Security features such as a ModSecurity application firewall and automatic blocking of...
Plesk and NGINX Reverse Proxy: Impact on performance
By default, Plesk uses NGINX as a reverse proxy for Apache. But is this default configuration optimal? What is the impact on performance? To answer these questions as a web host using Plesk, I ran load tests on a Hetzner VPS (8 AMD Epyc cores) to measure the impact of enabling NGINX as a reverse proxy on overall performance. Context and configuration As part of this benchmark, I compared server performance by enabling and disabling NGINX. I also tested NGINX cache activation (and that changes everything!). The load tests were...
Automatic WordPress updates: What are the risks and benefits for your website?
WordPress updates, whether manual or automatic, always raise questions and even fears among webmasters. These updates are necessary for the security and scalability of your site, but they also entail risks. So should you activate WordPress automatic updates? Let's explore the issues. Manual updates No matter how you update your site (manually or automatically), there are risks. On the whole, no matter whether you update automatically or manually, you're bound to run into problems sooner or later. What are the risks of...
WPMasterToolKit: the all-in-one plugin for WordPress
Discover WPMasterToolKit: the essential plugin to simplify your life and lighten your WordPress sites. This made-in-France plugin, developed by Webdeclic's talented Ludwig YOU, brings together a host of essential WordPress features, each of which you can activate with a single click. All in a single extension: simplify your management while speeding up your site! 🚀 A truly different plugin WPMasterToolKit is simple and flexible. With over 83 free, activatable features already, this plugin lets you replace countless extensions with just one. What makes WPMasterToolKit unique, apart from being...
Comparison of the 8 popular free caching plugins for WordPress: which one performs best?
Finding the best cache plugin isn't easy. You have to test it, measure its performance, find out about its long-term support... So what's the fastest cache? What's the best cache plugin? Which ones are practical and complete, which ones perform well? Do we need to pay for a good cache plugin? Today, we're trying to answer these questions with independent measurements that are as objective as possible. The test is a little «meta» in that it concerns a test on lrob.fr, a showcase/blog created with FSE (full site editing). A standard site...