Recent content by Austin Bollinger

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...

While you are not wrong, Layer 7 attacks target the scripts (PHP especially), PHP opens connections to a database, and hell ensues. In the case of XenForo, if you manage to throw bots at it you will notice heavy RAM. While this is not XenForo's fault entirely, I am certainly curious if there is...

I agree, I just never understood that mentality. Perhaps I am just a dreaming cyber defense student. It would just make sense to me if any paid server component or software automatically comes with a hardening guide to maximize the protections of customers, their servers, and their users...

Disclaimer: Use this information as friendly advice, I claim no responsibility nor liability for incorrectly configured security solutions. Seek professional help if you are unfamiliar with anything below. Here is an example of what I was talking about: Hide your web server IP address - Use...

I made this post here: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/security-category-or-forum-section.133236/ I am talking about for posts like this: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/nginx-security-update-cve-2017-7529.131213/...

Layer 7 attacks really are not fun --- at all. If you have been a victim of Layer 7 attacks you are familiar with typing htop to see plenty o' red on the RAM, perhaps the CPU is through the roof too. Can we get a security section, please? I would like people to be able to share firewall...