Rate limiting third party app that spams thousands of requests
How to Stop WooCommerce REST API Abuse Using Nginx Rate Limiting If your WordPress site is feeling sluggish, but your security plugins (like Wordfence or…
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Stop Aggressive Bots in Their Tracks: Automated Threat Intelligence for Linux Servers
If you manage a Linux server, you know the drill: you check your logs and see a single IP address making 20,000 requests in an…
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Checking wp debug.log files
Why debug.log Files Matter Performance impact: Large log files can eat up disk space and slow down file operations. Backup bloat: If your backups include…
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Getting rid of Putty – ssh history
for ((i=1; i<=5; i++)); do history -d $(history 1 | awk ‘{print $1}’); done to get rid of the last 5 lines / commands
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Calculating average amount of memory used by each Apache process
You might need to calculate average amount of memory used by each Apache process for several reasons. One being deciding on MaxRequestWorkers . You can…
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MySQL log file quickly filling and growing large
While optimizing our MySQL server we noticed our mysqld.log was huge in size – 1GB+ – and it was filling every moment with the below…
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Finding out Average and Peak Number of Concurrent Connections for Apache
In order to optimize Apache’s configuration we needed “Average and Peak Number of Concurrent Connections” but we didn’t have an external software like Prometheus or…