The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) in South Africa is a legislation designed to protect the personal information of individuals by regulating the collection, processing, and storage of such information by entities. This law applies to all websites, including e-commerce sites, that collect any…
This is a short guide to white list an email address which keeps going into spam. Note: This is not a fool proof guide, as the spam technology from Gmail does change and there are other factors which might need to be taken into consideration…
There is always a big challenge to set the cache-control of image served via CDN's (content delivery networks). Cloudflare has a feature which is somewhat hidden, but when you discover this, you can change the way header responses are served to the browser. Typically most…
rsync is a command line tool to transfer data between a source and a destination. A destination or source can be remote. Avoid the following: Use the following in the command: $ rsync -avAXEWSlHh /source /destination --no-compress --info=progress2 --dry-run Test using --dry-run, then remove this…
wget is a powerful command to copy files from one server to another. However when downloading large files the following commands will help you continue your work or allow you to shutdown the command window and return at a later stage. Example $ wget -bqc…
Zaraz was acquired by CloudFlare and integrated as a Free tool on all projects (This may or may not change). What exactly is Zaraz is best described below... Cloudflare Zaraz gives you complete control over third-party tools and services for your website, and allows you…
PHP-FPM is a FastCGI process manager that is used to handle high traffic on web servers. However, sometimes this service can cause high load on servers itself. In this article, we will discuss the best practices for tuning PHP-FPM to handle high traffic. PHP-FPM is…
There are several methods to analyse, repair and optimize tables for MySQL databases. Point 1 & 2 are not practical if you would like to do this to all databases on the server. So we will focus on point 3 with some very simple commands.