Recent content by Austin Bollinger

Spot-on, that is effectively all I was trying to say. Your wording is most-elegant. I will hit the eject button on discussing any further as seemingly some folks believe their $1 dollar store shared hosting charges are worth it to take the risk of web security, and lack layered security...

I don't believe this behavior is dependent on the provider. If it appears to be, that typically indicates a lower-quality hosting environment. The fundamental premise of shared hosting is that server resources are distributed across multiple customers and intentionally overcommitted to...

If you are stating shared hosting works just fine - I am not trying to revoke your wisdom any amount. I promise on this. Almost all shared hosting providers will SHUTDOWN your website if anyone attacks your web forum. Given the simplicity to drive a CPU spike on many websites nowadays...

I have pulled $4,000 in a 24h period with my forum. I used to have the Stripe csv exports and screen caps to show it. Anyone CAN do it, just about the demand and an existing payer that WOULD. When you mix can and would, you get gold. I do not stay as deep nowadays admittedly. But I will share...

Hey don’t get sad about anything mate. Weaponize every possible advantage you can. Make YouTube videos targeting Google SEO with description links to your website. Do the same thing with whatever every other search engine favors - work smart not hard.

No AI would just suck all your information over to a chat context session without gaining you any organic traffic. Just scraping bots. Pretty much dead internet theory is alive in 2026

Internet forums are from the 1970s and 1980s. That's probably an unpopular opinion, especially coming from someone who has run multiple forums and seen firsthand how powerful they can be. When leveraged well, forums aren't just message boards.. they are engines for collaboration, deep knowledge...

There’s no need to spend money. It takes seconds or minutes tops to provision any forum software typically. Like maybe if you’re a day trader making $2,000,000 hourly sure okay I get you. But I don’t think so lol I’ll run a series of SEO tests between the forum versions. And I’ll keep a...

Another thing I'd like to mention, Google is beginning to punish/penalize websites which make use of AI/LLM for content-creation. As an example I could type into an LLM, "Explain why XenForo SEO is down for Google in April 2025 - make it very concise?" Now this information is quite spot-on...

Ember js is the clunkiest of flaming garbage cans to surface this blue water and land ball. If you are using other 'free' forums that you are believing to be faring well in regards to SEO, do you mind giving us a keyword search that lands your site? I would give you mine, as I am front-top-page...

I began noticing Google is de-ranking my content, and such. Heck, even YouTube has de-ranked my content over time. The Internet is truly turning into bots on bots on bots. Ah well.. it was the eventual outcome we knew this was always coming. There is no more 'free Internet,' especially in...

I would also like to add onto this: Protect your web server(s) with Cloudflare, or HAProxy+NGINX (your own alternative).. when you setup this, however, make sure that your protected web instances have proper firewall rules/routing configured in a way that ONLY the access to 80/443 or whatever...

Close/delete thread, I can see there is likely not enough demand for this to happen. Many people across the globe utilize forum software. My #1 pick is XenForo and I tell everyone about it. What many systems use for storing user accounts is AD, which is talked to with LDAP (protocol). Making...

There are so many resources that people may not know to look for that could help them e.g. RedHat offers a lot of useful and free security information. Just saying "well people don't care about security" and implying "so we do not have to also" is not the way. :oops: I will happily discontinue...

I also wanted to point this out, the top XenForo result is from 2012. Now go here and find anything about security from the front page. Nothing at all, except security issues and fixes in the Twitter feed. Having more security awareness and consciousness would be nice. :love: I think something...