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Google has announced that they will take Mobile-Friendly site into account when indexing sites. Thus, it is prudent to ensure the particular website that you’re maintaining is mobile friendly.
There are two main tools released by Google for testing if the website is Mobile-Friendly:
However, personally I like PageSpeed Insights tool better because it gave more in-depth explanation on how to improve my site.
Have fun trying out.
Comment spams is the bane of any website operator that rely on real human interaction. Stopping comment spams by hand is a tedious process especially when comment spam attacks are sophisticated and are launched from Botnet. There are several techniques that can be employed to fight comment spams including behavioral analysis and also IP analysis.
In maintaining WordPress and Joomla sites, I myself has analyzed several web logfiles and Cloudflare logs to learn that most comment spam originated from certain ip blocks and countries. Therefore, I decided to completely deny access from those affected ip block through firewall (which keep the comment spam low and saves web server resources!)
However, recently I found a new service IP Blacklist Cloud which list the top most blacklisted ip address through collaborative effort. Normally I find blacklisting by ip address is tedious and probably harmful to legitimate visitors, however after conforming the ip addresses that I found inside my spam logs, I decided the list is legitimate and decided to firewall-block some of the worst offenders in the list.
IP Blacklist Cloud free WordPress plugins, which I personally does not use due to my policy of keeping my installation lean with minimal (to no plugins!), however I see that there’s no harm giving a shot!
I’ve managed to connect this blog with IFTTT! However due to certain security restriction that I’ve enforced on this blog to curb spammers and unauthorized access (aka crackers), I’ve decided against connecting my blog directly through XMLRPC endpoint. So I’ve use RSS/ATOM feeds instead.
IFTTT is a wonderful service which allows you to connect various services to perform automated task on another web service. Very convenient for busy people!
*IFTTT stands for “If this, then that” which is a programming metaphor in basic automatic decision making or branching.
Although Google has announce to drop SPDY support by early February 2016 in favor of HTTP/2, SPDY remains the best HTTP protocol extension to maximize compression and reduce webpage load latency.
The current and final SPDY implementation supported by Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome is SPDY/3.1.
In order to check if your webserver supports SPDY 3.1, just simply:
Additionally, you could go to spdycheck.org to check if your web server supports SPDY.
Have fun!
In my humble opinion, a must have tool for those who are just migrated from Apache to Nginx web server.
The online tool is able to convert Apache rewrite rules to nginx compatible rules on the fly, very convenient!
Secured Shell or SSH is a great way to enable a secure login for your UNIX / Linux Box. However there are precaution that you should take in order to properly secure SSH daemon from being scanned or attacked by script kiddies or automated bots.
This week I’m going to write a series of article on securing SSH on Ubuntu Linux Box (VPS) and I’m going to link to this post from time to time.
Hope this will help in securing your Linux Box / Linux VPS