Author: Robin Labadie (LRob)
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Black Friday 2024 at LRob!
From November 29 to December 6, 2024 7 days to enjoy -50% for life on selected hosting! -50% for life on selected annual web hostings Power your site faster than ever, with the maximum security and expert support you've always dreamed of. All with exemplary eco-responsibility [...]
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Symfony: 8 new security vulnerabilities discovered - Analysis and recommendations
On November 6, 2024, after a year without a vulnerability, Symfony released eight vulnerabilities on its blog. They affect different versions of the Symfony framework. Here's a summary of these critical vulnerabilities, their potential impact, and the solutions implemented by Symfony. It will help you understand the implications of these vulnerabilities for securing your [...]
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Plesk and NGINX Reverse Proxy: Impact on performance
By default, Plesk uses NGINX as a reverse proxy for Apache. But is this default configuration optimal? What impact does it have on performance? To answer these questions, I carried out load tests on a Hetzner VPS (8 AMD Epyc cores) to measure the impact of enabling NGINX as a reverse proxy on overall performance. [...]
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Automatic WordPress updates: What are the risks and benefits for your website?
WordPress updates, whether manual or automatic, always raise questions and even fears among webmasters. These updates are necessary for the security and scalability of your site, but they also entail risks. So should you activate WordPress automatic updates? Let's explore the issues. Automatic updates [...]
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WPMasterToolKit: the all-in-one plugin for WordPress
Discover WPMasterToolKit: the essential plugin to simplify your life and lighten your WordPress sites. This made-in-France plugin, developed by Webdeclic's talented Ludwig YOU, brings together a host of essential WordPress features, each of which you can activate with a single click. All in a single extension: it's sure to simplify your [...]
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Comparison of the 8 popular free caching plugins for WordPress: which one performs best?
Finding the best cache plugin isn't easy. You have to test it, measure its performance, find out about its long-term support... So what's the fastest cache? What's the best cache plugin? Which ones are practical and complete, which ones perform well? Do you need to pay for a good cache?
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What's new in Nextcloud 30?
Like every 6 months, Nextcloud has just released its new major version. The official release notes are rather limited, and no one wants to read the complete changelog... With 2,363 changes cumulated on Nextcloud 30.0.0 and 30.0.1. Fixes, new features, enhancements, dependency updates and more. It's all quite complex [...].
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WordPress vs WP Engine conflict: ACF becomes Secure Custom Fields
The conflict between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine continues to rock the WordPress community. The latest development in this affair concerns a major ecosystem plugin: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). Since October 12, 2024, ACF has been entirely replaced on the official WordPress.org directory by Secure Custom Fields (SCF), [...].
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For the first time, an LRob IP has been blacklisted
Seeing an IP blacklisted is part and parcel of life as a web host, a daily occurrence for the biggest and most permissive ones. Nevertheless, this is a first for LRob in its 10 years of existence! The more positive among you will say that this is the price of fame... Inevitably, as volume increases, so does the risk of seeing an IP blacklisted.
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LRob Documentation: Migrating from MediaWiki to WordPress
Replacing a wiki with WordPress: a simpler solution for documentation At LRob, documentation management is essential, but until recently it was handled by MediaWiki. Although this tool is effective for collaborative projects, it becomes cumbersome and complicated to manage when you're alone writing and maintaining [...].
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LRob now contributes to malicious IP reporting with AbuseIPDB
For a long time, I've been looking for a way to effectively exploit the hacking data blocked by my servers. Intrusion attempts are constant, but thanks to security systems such as Fail2ban, attacks are stopped before they cause any damage. However, beyond simply protecting my systems and customers, I wanted to go further.
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Blacklists (RBL): SPFBL.net's outrageous practices
It's time to denounce an organization - SPFBL.net - which, although it claims to fight spam, actually seems to adopt practices contrary to this objective. Instead of fulfilling its role, this provider seems to be taking advantage of its position to engage in absolutely scandalous and unacceptable practices. Not all RBLs are [...]
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WordPress vs WP Engine conflict: analysis of the drama
The world of WordPress, which powers over 40 % of the world's websites, is in turmoil. At the center of the conflict are two major players in the ecosystem: Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, and WP Engine, one of the leading hosting companies for WordPress. This confrontation, which took [...]
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Critical security flaw in CUPS on GNU/Linux September-October 2024: What you need to know
A quadruple critical security flaw has just been discovered in CUPS for all GNU/Linux systems. This article will be updated with the new information, to provide you with a simple and effective summary of what you need to know and do. UPDATE 09/29/2024: These vulnerabilities concern CUPS only, and are therefore very [...]
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Best practices for your WordPress contact forms
Imagine the drama: only 1 chance in 10 that your requests will reach you! Contact forms are essential for acquiring customers. However, a number of these forms are poorly configured and fail to forward prospects' requests... What's more, forms are supposed to be designed to make you [...].
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Back to school for adults 2024: New products and special offers from LRob
💥New offers & up to -30% in September 💥Boost your back-to-school! All the details 👇 In September, adults go back to school too! And it's been exactly 1 year since I left my CDI to focus totally on the LRob business. So it's time to mark the occasion. September's schedule is [...]
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Increase in URSSAF contributions for 2025 (AE/EI)
Since July 1, a decree dated May 30, 2024 has set the increase in contributions for 2025 for BNC (and Cipav). For better social protection. Auto-entrepreneurs (and EI): get ready. As indicated in this first news item: This concerns auto-entrepreneurs affiliated to the general Social Security scheme and declaring their sales [...].
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Critical security flaw in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin: 5 million sites affected
On August 19, 2024, a critical vulnerability was identified in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin, used by over 5 million WordPress sites. The flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate an administrator, compromising the site's full integrity. Technical details The flaw was discovered by WordFence. It [...]
