Category: Blog
Explore the topics on the LRob blog: WordPress expert, Nextcloud, web hosting, security, news… For a more reliable and high-performance web.
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Business review 2024
Although I started my entrepreneurial journey in 2010, it was in September 2023 that I decided to devote myself fully to my web-based business, which focuses on hosting, maintenance, and specialized development exclusively for WordPress. So 2024 marks the first full year for the «LRob» you know today. So, how did it go? Spoiler: The results are very encouraging! New Features and Improvements in 2024 2024 brought many service improvements at LRob. Here are a few highlights: And much more. Web Hosting Business in 2024 The WordPress hosting business is taking off! You’ve been…
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Black Friday 2024 at LRob!
From November 29 to December 6, 2024—7 days to enjoy a lifetime discount of -50% on select hosting plans! -50% for life on select annual web hosting plans. Power your website faster than ever, with the maximum security and expert support you’ve always dreamed of. All with exemplary eco-responsibility! If you’re just discovering these incredible offers, find all the details on the dedicated page. -60% on website migrations. Entrust your migration to a professional hosting sysadmin for an exact copy of your content, with zero downtime. -45% on repairs and security updates for…
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Symfony: 8 new security vulnerabilities discovered - Analysis and recommendations
After a year without incident, Symfony disclosed eight vulnerabilities at once on its blog on November 6, 2024. They affect various versions of the Symfony framework. Here is a summary of these critical vulnerabilities, their potential impacts, and the solutions implemented by Symfony. This will help you understand the implications of these vulnerabilities so you can secure your applications. Introduction Even the most reputable frameworks, such as Symfony, are never completely immune to security vulnerabilities. Regardless of the application solution you choose, vigilance is essential. Security measures such as the ModSecurity application firewall and the automatic blocking of…
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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-core AMD Epyc) to measure the impact of enabling NGINX as a reverse proxy on overall performance. Background and Configuration As part of this benchmark, I compared the server’s performance with NGINX enabled and disabled. I also tested enabling the NGINX cache (and that makes all the difference!). The load tests…
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WordPress automatic updates: What are the risks and benefits for your website?
WordPress updates—whether manual or automatic—always raise questions, and sometimes even concerns, among webmasters. These updates are necessary for your site’s security and scalability, but they also carry risks. So, should you enable automatic WordPress updates? Let’s explore the issues. Manual Updates Regardless of how you update (manually or automatically), risks exist. Overall, whether the update is automatic or manual, you’ll sometimes encounter issues that need to be addressed, sooner or later. What are the risks of…
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WPMasterToolKit: the all-in-one plugin for WordPress
Discover WPMasterToolKit: the must-have plugin to make your life easier and streamline your WordPress sites. This French-made plugin, developed by the talented Ludwig YOU of Webdeclic, brings together a wide range of essential WordPress features, each of which you can enable with a single click. All in a single plugin: it simplifies management while speeding up your site! 🚀 A truly unique plugin: WPMasterToolKit is simple and flexible. With over 83 free features already available, this plugin lets you replace countless extensions with just one. What makes WPMasterToolKit unique, aside from the fact that it’s…
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Comparison of the 8 popular free caching plugins for WordPress: which one performs best?
Finding the best caching plugin isn't easy. You have to test it, measure its performance, and assess its long-term support… So which cache is the fastest? Which is the best caching plugin? Which ones are user-friendly and feature-rich, and which ones deliver high performance? Do you have to pay for a good caching plugin? Today, we’ll try to answer these questions using independent measurements that are as objective as possible. The test is a bit «meta» because it’s based on lrob.fr, a showcase/blog built with FSE (full site editing). A standard website…
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What's new in Nextcloud 30?
As it does every six months, Nextcloud has just released its latest major version. The official release notes are fairly brief, and no one really wants to read the full changelog… With a total of 2,363 changes across Nextcloud 30.0.0 and 30.0.1. Bug fixes, new features, improvements, dependency updates, and more. All of this is quite complex to analyze and summarize. Fortunately, ChatGPT can summarize and organize it all for us (over 2,400 lines of text and 172,879 characters). So to save you hours of your time, here’s ChatGPT’s summary of the key takeaways from the Nextcloud 30 changelogs…
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WordPress vs WP Engine conflict: ACF becomes Secure Custom Fields
The conflict between Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, and WP Engine continues to rock the WordPress community. The latest development in this matter involves a major plugin in the ecosystem: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). As of October 12, 2024, ACF has been completely replaced in the official WordPress.org repository by Secure Custom Fields (SCF), a fork created by the WordPress security team. The official announcement was made via a blog post on WordPress.org. Here’s what you need to know. A change officially driven by security In a post published on October 12, 2024, Matt Mullenweg…
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For the first time, an LRob IP has been blacklisted
Seeing a blacklisted IP address is part of life as a web host—a daily occurrence for the biggest or most permissive providers. Nevertheless, this is a first for LRob in its 10 years of existence! The more optimistic among you might say this is the price of fame… Naturally, as traffic increases, so does the risk of unauthorized activity on a site. The more critical among you will make a big fuss. In any case, at LRob, we’ve chosen transparency. So we’re answering all your questions. What happened, and what solutions are we implementing? Here are the answers. Read on…
