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Record attack: 2.8 million IPs compromised: What impact for WordPress hosts?
A new threat of unprecedented scale is rocking the web: 2.8 million compromised network devices are currently being exploited to flood the Internet with malicious requests. At LRob, as a web hosting provider, we've seen a dramatic increase in attacks in recent days. We'll explain how we're effectively blocking them. These attacks are not only [...]
How to choose the fastest web host in 2025?
Is your web hosting too slow? Your web hosting provider's technological and hardware choices have a direct impact on your website's performance. Yet most hosting providers are vague about their infrastructure and actual performance. As a customer, you often don't know what you're paying for. At LRob, we try to keep our [...]
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[Video] LRob Interview "Security and Defense Professions
As a secure WordPress host, I had the pleasure of appearing on the MERCI BOBBY channel's "Taffer Comment?" show. The concept of the show 📌 To shed light on professional career paths in the security professions.📌 And for my part, to talk cybersecurity in a self-taught way. But also: An enriching and accessible video by Olecio & [...]
PHP 8.4 support at your hosting provider - Available now
Your favorite web hosting provider is pleased to announce that PHP 8.4 is now fully supported on your specialized WordPress web hosting. This version brings significant improvements to the language, boosting performance, flexibility and code readability. Here's an overview of the most important new features. Your LRob hosting provider supports [...]
Translate an entire WordPress site at once with TranslatePress
As a WordPress hosting specialist and WordPress webmaster, I regularly work on multilingual sites with automatic translation. For this, I generally use TranslatePress Developer edition, with the DeepL API to perform this translation. The problem? Translating everything at once isn't natively possible. So we had to find a solution. Discover this solution and win [...]
A critical flaw in W3 Total Cache
The WordFence teams (a WordPress security plugin) have brought to our attention a security flaw CVE-2024-12365, of criticality CVSS 8.5/10. What is W3 Total Cache? W3 Total Cache is a serious, high-performance and highly customizable caching plugin that we highly recommend. Used by over a million sites, it stands out for its [...]
Business review 2024
Although I started my business in 2010, it was in September 2023 that I decided to devote myself fully to my web business, focused on hosting, maintenance and specialized creation explicitly on WordPress. So 2024 is the first full year for the "LRob" you know today. So, what's the balance [...]?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...].
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), [...].
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.
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 [...].
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. And as a WordPress hosting specialist, believe it or not, I thwart hundreds if not thousands of hacking attempts every day (and regularly repair hacked WordPress sites from other hosts). Intrusion attempts are permanent, [...].
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...].
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 [...]
From self-taught to WordPress host: 12 years of passion summed up 🚀
In 2012, I created a geek community. I wanted to host it myself on Linux servers. Because everyone knows that a server worthy of the name is necessarily Linux-based! I was unknowingly entering my true vocation: sysadmin 🌱 📷 Photo by Manon Laterza - 2012 - I manage my servers, my friends [...]
