To use WooCommerce with Varnish server-side caching you need to exclude some of the generic WooCommerce pages and cookies. Some web hosts will partially do this for you and others will give you an interface to add them yourself, make…

This guide looks at adding Cloudflare to a set up of ServerPilot and fail2ban with a WordPress jail set up. Once you start using Cloudflare as a CDN solution for your hosting, you are adding another firewall into the equation,…

You can temporarily turn off Modsec filtering by adding a code snippet rule to your .htacces file, this can be helpful if you are triggering a number of rules which are false positives or you are unable to get the…

This guide shows a Git WordPress workflow and demonstrates version control using Git from a local development environment on macOS to a staging site web server. For the Database control and pushing to staging, we will use WP Migrate Pro. A second remote repo…

Using a combination of ServerPilot and a Vultr server instance is a great solution for a Piwik server for tracking analytics. After setting up the initial Piwik install here is how you can set up the GeoIP location module set…

ServerPilot comes with a default firewall enabled when you connect to a droplet instance such as from Vultr or Digital Ocean, the only option you have from the ServerPilot control panel is to toggle if on or off. The actual…

ServerPilot out of the box does not have a solution to deal with brute force attacks, it does have a sister company called Heatshield which rejects IP addresses that try and constantly connect to your site, you can also do the…

Set up a malware scanner with LMD Maldet and ClamAV on ServerPilot and an instance like Vultr or Digital Ocean. One of the key server malware scanners is Linux Malware Detect and works very nicely scanning any Linux distribution, it keeps an updated…

ServerPilot comes with a default firewall which is enabled and comes in the form of a toggle in the ServerPilot control panel. The panel is a front for the ufw (uncomplicated firewall)  app which in turn is a front for…

Many issues can go wrong if your WordPress default permissions have changed due to some unforeseen circumstance or a migration has gone bad due to some abnormal hosting environment. The default Linux permissions for most hosts WordPress sites are 644…