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Modern approaches to secure websites in 2018


by Danila Vershinin, August 3, 2018

Some of the things you really want to take care about to secure your website.

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Deciphering the slow web tech behind Philippines’ largest mobile networks


by Danila Vershinin, July 19, 2018

Find out how Philippines’ largest Internet companies, Globe and Smart, neglect performance and security with nothing but HTTP/1.1 and Gzip compression and custom DNS nameservers.

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RPM Building Gotchas


by Danila Vershinin, July 14, 2018

Here’s my small guide on some issues, solutions, and best practices for building CentOS/RHEL RPMs. Versioning module of a program NGINX modules have to be rebuilt for specific versions of NGINX. This means that an NGINX module package essentially versions based on two components: The version of NGINX itself The version of the module (unless […]

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How to use multiple real IP headers with nginx


by Danila Vershinin, July 10, 2018

How to pass real visitor IPs in nginx from two different cloud services.

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Proxy requests to any remote server in nginx


by Danila Vershinin, July 8, 2018

Display information from other websites on your own, with nginx proxying.

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Tuning proxy_buffer_size in NGINX


by Danila Vershinin, July 7, 2018

Make your NGINX more memory efficient and fix that “upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream” error.

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Magento 2 Security Checklist


by Danila Vershinin, June 24, 2018

When you prepare to launch your Magento 2 website, security is one of the primary areas of concern. Whether you plan to accept credit card data directly on your website, or on a payment provider’s pages – you are required to achieve PCI compliance. Otherwise, you’ll find your business at risk of being banned from […]

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How to remove the Server header in NGINX


by Danila Vershinin,

How to hide the Server HTTP header in NGINX and more: hide the fact of using NGINX altogether.

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How to whitelist / unban a user in unmanaged Citrus Stack server


by Danila Vershinin, June 20, 2018

You’d rarely have to do anything about maintaining a healthy state of a Citrus Stack server. It is self healing, and secure from brute force attacks. However, when you share access with developers, a frequent problem is that the server would automatically ban them. This happens for a few reasons: Repetitive failed attempts to login […]

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In-Place Upgrading: Percona MySQL 5.6 to 5.7 (RedHat/CentOS 7)


by Danila Vershinin, June 17, 2018

A simple script for updating your Percona MySQL Server 5.6 to version 5.7, in CentOS/RHEL systems.

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