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Black Friday 2024 at LRob!
From November 29 to December 6, 2024, enjoy 50% off for life on a selection of hosting plans! 50% off for life on certain annual web hosting plans. Boost your website faster than ever, with the maximum security and expert support you've always dreamed of. All with exemplary eco-responsibility. Read more >
Symfony: 8 new security vulnerabilities discovered - Analysis and recommendations
After a year without incident, Symfony revealed eight vulnerabilities at once on its blog on November 6, 2024. They affect different versions of the Symfony framework. Here is a summary of these critical flaws, their potential impacts, and the solutions implemented by Symfony. This will help you understand the implications of these vulnerabilities for security. Read more >
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 performed load tests on a Hetzner VPS (8 AMD Epyc cores) to measure the impact of enabling NGINX as Read more >
Automatic WordPress updates: What are the risks and benefits for your website?
WordPress updates, whether manual or automatic, always raise questions and even concerns among webmasters. These updates are necessary for the security and scalability of your site, but they also carry risks. So should you enable automatic WordPress updates? Let's explore the issues. Updates Read more >
WPMasterToolKit: the all-in-one plugin for WordPress
Discover WPMasterToolKit: the essential plugin to simplify your life and streamline your WordPress sites. This French-made plugin, developed by the talented Ludwig YOU from Webdeclic, brings together a multitude of essential WordPress features, each of which you can activate with a single click. All in a single extension: everything you need to simplify your Read more >
Comparison of the 8 popular free caching plugins for WordPress: which one performs best?
Finding the best cache plugin is not easy. You have to test it, measure its performance, find out about its long-term support... So which is the fastest cache? Which is the best cache plugin? Which ones are practical and comprehensive, and which ones perform well? Do you have to pay for a good one? Read more >
What's new in Nextcloud 30?
As it does every six months, Nextcloud has just released its new major version. The official release notes are fairly limited, and no one wants to read the entire changelog... With 2,363 cumulative changes in Nextcloud 30.0.0 and 30.0.1. Fixes, new features, improvements, dependency updates, etc. It's all quite complex. Read more >
WordPress vs WP Engine conflict: ACF becomes Secure Custom Fields
The conflict between Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, and WP Engine continues to shake up the WordPress community. The latest development in this case concerns a major plugin in the ecosystem: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). Since October 12, 2024, ACF has been completely replaced on the official WordPress.org directory by Secure Custom Fields (SCF)., Read more >
For the first time, an LRob IP has been blacklisted
Seeing an IP blacklisted is part of life as a host, a daily occurrence for the largest or most permissive ones. Nevertheless, this is a first for LRob in its 10 years of existence! The most positive among you will say that it's the price of fame... Inevitably, the more the volume increases, the greater the risk of seeing an Read more >
LRob Documentation: Migrating from MediaWiki to WordPress
Replacing a wiki with WordPress: a simpler solution for documentation At LRob, documentation management is essential, but until recently it was handled by MediaWiki. Although this tool is effective for collaborative projects, it becomes cumbersome and complicated to manage when you are the only one writing and maintaining it. Read more >
LRob now contributes to malicious IP reporting with AbuseIPDB
For a long time, I had been looking for a way to effectively exploit the hacking data blocked by my servers. And as a WordPress specialist host, believe me when I say that I thwart hundreds, even thousands, of hacking attempts every day (and I regularly repair hacked WordPress sites that come from other hosts). Intrusion attempts are constant, Read more >
Blacklists (RBL): SPFBL.net's outrageous practices
Not all blacklists are created equal. And SPFBL is an example not to be followed. Don't use this blacklist and don't give in to its pressures. Read more >
WordPress vs WP Engine conflict: analysis of the drama
The world of WordPress, which powers more than 40% of websites worldwide, is in turmoil. At the center of the conflict are two major players in the ecosystem: Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, and WP Engine, one of the leading WordPress hosting companies. This clash, which has taken Read more >
Critical security flaw in CUPS on GNU/Linux September-October 2024: What you need to know
A critical quadruple security flaw has just been discovered in CUPS for all GNU/Linux systems. This article will be updated with new information to provide you with a simple and effective summary of what you need to know and the measures you need to take. Update 09/29/2024: These flaws only affect CUPS, so very Read more >
Best practices for your WordPress contact forms
Contact forms are essential for acquiring customers. Yet a number of these forms are poorly configured and fail to forward prospect requests... Read more >
Back to school for adults 2024: New products and special offers from LRob
💥New offers & up to 30% off in September 💥Everything you need to kickstart the new school year! All the details 👇 September is back-to-school time for adults too! And it's been exactly one year since I left my permanent job to focus entirely on LRob. So it's time to mark the occasion. The schedule for September is Read more >