August 2016 - Sysadmins of the North

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Optimized WordPress hosting (9+ practical tips)

WordPress optimized hosting is a subject on which a lot is written about. And therefore, this post is not about where to host your WordPress blog, or who offers the best WordPress hosting. This post is for you developers, what you can do to optimize your WordPress hosting. This post is not about setting up high-availability, fail-over, clustering, IIS versus Nginx versus Apache, RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, different types of storage, and so on. It’s about solving performance issues.

By Jan Reilink 31/08/2016WordPress

Web application security

WordPress advisory: Akal premium theme XSS vulnerability

This post describes the Akal premium WordPress theme XSS vulnerability that I discovered. The theme suffers from a reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that would allow an attacker to steal an admin's cookie, if WordPress wasn't secured against that type of attacks.

By Jan Reilink 22/08/2016Web application security

Windows Server

5 Extra ways to clean up disk space in Windows Server

Disk cleanup in Windows Server using DISM is one of the most popular posts here on Saotn.org. It is still valid for Windows Server 2016 and up. So apparently, disk space usage is an issue in Windows Server. Which made me wonder: what more ways to clean up disk space in Windows Server are there?

By Jan Reilink 16/08/2016Windows Server

PowerShell

List all MAC addresses of all Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Learn how to list all MAC address of all VM's in Hyper-Vusing PowerShell. You sometimes need to list and get all MAC addresses of all Hyper-V virtual machines in your network, either for your administration or provisioning. Here is how.

By Jan Reilink 12/08/2016PowerShell

Month: August 2016