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Practical steps and checks for hosting, WordPress and performance. Browse a topic or use the dates to explore the experience behind the advice.
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zram swap on a web server: setup, numbers and rollback
Swapping to a cloud disk can make MySQL and Redis wait hundreds of microseconds per page. zram swaps to compressed RAM instead. Setup, real numbers and rollback.
Lock your origin server to Cloudflare with nginx
Proxying through Cloudflare only hides your server if the server refuses everyone else. How to lock an nginx origin to Cloudflare and stop visitors faking their IP.
Ten Linux server habits: disk, logs, updates, SSH and timers
Simple, repeatable checks for anyone running a Linux server: what is listening, what is filling the disk, automatic security updates, SSH keys, systemd timers and more.
Apache tuning and hardening: PHP-FPM, HTTP/2, caching and Cloudflare IPs
Practical Apache tips: switch to the event MPM with PHP-FPM, turn on HTTP/2 and Brotli, cache static files properly, read real visitor IPs behind Cloudflare and hide what should be private.
Show what your monitoring has actually checked
Make the scope, age and missing evidence visible in a hosting status summary, so a reassuring label has something useful behind it.
Test that your Git backups can be restored
Check what a repository archive includes, verify it and practise restoring it before relying on it for recovery.
Check the Apache configuration that is actually loaded
Before changing an Apache limit, I trace the running service to the configuration it reads. A plausible file in the right directory can still be inactive.
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