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How I stopped bots taking down one of my Client’s website (Cloudflare Firewall Rules)

Leave a Comment / Server Technology / July 11, 2024

Managing a website’s performance and security is crucial for any business, especially when unexpected issues arise. In this case study, we explore how an Australian business faced significant website downtime and excessive bandwidth usage, and how implementing Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) provided a solution. The Problem Our client, an Australian business catering exclusively to […]

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Drupal for WP devs – my thoughts

Leave a Comment / PHP, Server Technology, Wordpress / September 1, 2016

So recently I was asked to do some work on a Drupal project, sure I though, I have worked with WordPress and Joomla – how much different could it be. Well as it turns out – quite different and pretty confusing for somebody coming for a WP background. Here are some of my observations:

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phpMyAdmin with Varnish

Leave a Comment / Knowledge Base, Server Technology / December 18, 2015

Need to use phpmyadmin on a server running Varnish cache? It can be tricky, especially since phpmyadmin relies on session cookies for security which dont seem to match up with varnish. It took us a while but we figured it out… but then forgot what we did! So for now I will show how to

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Secrets of blistering WordPress Speed – Using VPS hosting

Leave a Comment / Server Technology, Wordpress / April 9, 2015

Everybody loves a fast website/app. There is nothing more frustrating than twiddling your thumbs while a page loads.If you have followed our other articles in our Getting Maximum Speed from Your WordPress Site series you would have seen how image optimisation. minification and caching can improve your site speed. Well now we are going to

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