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Once upon a time the HostGator was a great hosting company – great technical support, great prices, good performance, predictable policy, etc., and positive-thinking CEO who blogs about the company, about fortunes and failures… Fast forward to year 2012. CEO and founder Brent Oxley sells HostGator to EIG. They are famous of “acquiring a large …
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Just a friendly warning. If you try to store copy of standard Apache HTTP Server web root, git repository, some Linux directories, etc in the Google Drive, then do not be surprised when Google silently corrupts the filenames by renaming dot (.) to underscore (_). For me this is happening to nix hidden files (begins …
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Some major WordPress design flaws have led to widespread attacks on our and your servers. The only hope is reasonably long and strong passwords or WordPress security plugins. The first flaw. By default WordPress have enabled “feature”, when you visit your blog with author query string appended, it nicely reveals your usernames. For example, if …