VPS performance test: Amazon Lightsail vs. Digital Ocean vs. Linode vs. Scaleway vs. Server Mania Severs tested for performance I have tested the following servers: (i) Amazon_Linux-512MB-Virginia-1 (LIghtsail)512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD Amazon Linux Virginia, Zone B (us-east-1b) (ii) Scaleway (Paris) (BareMetal server)C2S – 4 Dedicated x86 64bit Cores, 8GB memory 50GB
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XenForo Forum: How To Show Date Of Joining, Number Of Messages, Likes Received And Trophies Of Members
If you would like to show the date of joining, number of messages, likes received and trophies of members in your Xenforo forum, go to the Admin control panel, click on the appearance tab, click on ‘style properties’ and then ‘message elements’. Select, ‘show custom user fileds’, ‘author registration date’, author message count’, ‘number of
VirtualMin: 413 “Request Entity Too Large” error with uploading a file
In a normal nginx installation, this error is solved by making an amendment to the nginx.conf file and the php.ini file. The nginx.conf file is found at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf while php.ini is to be found at /etc/php.ini In nginx.conf, the directive has to be added: client_max_body_size = 100M; In the php.ini, the upload_max_filesize directive has to
Nginx.conf rules for Wordfence Falcon Engine Caching when using Nginx and PHP5-FPM
Wordfence is a free WordPress plugin that provides security for your wordpress installation. It has a nice feature that scans your wordpress files and compares it with the original to see if they have been modified. However, the scan is not foolproof. It does not cover all the core wordpress files or the themes or
WordPress Shows Login Page For Entire Site
Today, I had an unpleasant experience. When I tried to access my site, I was presented with a peculiar login page. No page was accessible. Even the wp-admin.php page was blocked out by the login page. There was only one input box for the password (see image). A study of the source code of the
MicroAd Hijacks Browsers & Hides Google Adsense Ads
I have several websites where I have Google Adsense Ads running. Today, when I was browsing my websites, I was surprised to see some shady-looking ads showing. The ads appeared to be of companies called “Poster Gully”, “Styleever”, “fashion equation.com” etc. If you peer closely at the ads, you will find an icon towards the
php5-fpm process is consuming the CPU resources & RAM
Today morning, I posted something which drew a flock of people to my website. I had concurrent visitors of about 100 + according to Google analytics. They were downloading a 1 MB pdf file. My VPS is powered by easyengine (nginx + php-fpm). I also have WP Super Cache installed. At such situations (when there
VPS Used To Send Spam Email Messages
Today morning, I got a shocking message from servermania. “New support ticket was created Subject: Abuse – 23.236……. Hello, This message is to notify you that your server located at 23.236……. is now in violation of our Terms of Service located at http://www.servermania.com/tos.htm and is subject to account suspension leading up to termination without notice.
Vultr VPS Review (Tokyo)
Today, I developed an urge to try out the Vultr VPS service. I put in $5 and got a credit of $5. With the $10 in my control, I grabbed a VPS with the following specifications: 1 CPU1024MB MEMORY20GB STORAGE200 GB TRANSFERMonthly$7.00 Hourly$0.01 All the disks are supposed to be 100% SSD Storage. The CPUs
My Site VPS2.Me Is The Subject Of A DDOS Attack (!)
All of a sudden this site went offline even though other sites on the same VPS operating through different I. P. Addresses were in operation. I shot off a mail to ServerMania to ask what was going on. The reply surprised me: “Hello, Your machine has been the target of a DDoS attack, we have