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World Data Backup Day 2025 - Web data and collaborative clouds
You don't want to know how much it would cost you to lose your business or personal data. And yet it's a very real risk - one that affects individuals and businesses alike every day, often through negligence, forgetfulness or a false sense of security. To mark World Backup Day, we'd like to take this opportunity to [...].
Domain names: 10 rules for choosing the right one in 2025
A domain name is essential for the creation of your website and personalized emails. A good choice of domain name can be the key to your success and should therefore be taken very seriously. LRob will soon be offering domain name registration. In the meantime, we can help you choose the right [...]
Web host performance in 2025: test of 10 offers
How do you choose among the many shared web hosting offers? Follow this guide and test the performance of the best-known hosting providers.
WordPress 6.8 is coming: Release date and new features
WordPress 6.8 is on its way and promises to refine the user experience, while optimizing performance, design and security. Scheduled for release on April 15, 2025, this new version should delight users. ℹ️ Is your WordPress site slow, receiving too many attacks or do you need help? Power up your WordPress site like never before [...]
Nextcloud 31: What's new in this major update?
Nextcloud major version 31.0.0 was released on February 25, 2025. While the official release notes are very short this time, the enhancements are not to be outdone! At LRob, we offer managed Nextcloud instances with updates included, backed up daily, with NVMe SSD storage for maximum performance [...].
Let's Encrypt stops SSL/TLS certificate expiration notifications: Why this is good news
As of June 4, 2025, Let's Encrypt will no longer send you emails to notify you when your SSL/TLS certificates have expired. This change, which may seem surprising, is actually excellent news for system administrators, web hosts and site owners. In this article, we'll look at why this decision [...].
Performance and Security: LRob's strategy for optimal WordPress hosting
High-performance, secure WordPress hosting, without compromise At LRob, our mission is clear: to offer fast, secure WordPress hosting, minimizing the impact of attacks while optimizing server performance. Unlike standard solutions that simply respond to threats, we go one step further by actively preventing server load [...].
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 [...]
[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 a WordPress site - In one go with TranslatePress
Translating a WordPress site can be a challenge, especially when the automatic translation of a page requires it to be visited beforehand. 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 [...]
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 is the impact on performance? To answer these questions, as a web host using Plesk, 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 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 [...]