Recent content by MySiteGuy

At the very least, run your host's origin IP address through a multi-rbl lookup: https://www.anti-abuse.org/multi-rbl-check/ https://multirbl.valli.org/

Respectfully, what I'm reading from you is a cynical view with unsupported assumptions. Cloudflare already has 82% of the reverse proxy market share, and 20% of all websites go through them. Rather than abusing their market position, I've seen them increase efforts at transparency, and they are...

They are in fact correct that Google's services can be a privacy violation. For that matter, visiting any website their web server logs can have sites people are visiting from, what browser is used (and in many cases, the browser's plug-ins), IP addresses and from IP addresses, geo-location.

I know this, but do you seriously think they would use this to for any purpose other than handling the WAF and other features? If so, the FBI and many major companies would not be using them to protect their websites and other infrastructure. There are inexpensive DDOS services people can rent...

See my reply to ES Dev Team. If you think you're any better off with other countries, looked up the recent raids and server confiscations in the Netherlands, a country famed for its so-called privacy protections.

Yes, I know it's required, since the end point for the client facing SSL certificate is their network, but I seriously doubt this is something Cloudflare would consider doing, much less actually do, given that news of such a thing would essentially destroy their reputation. Cloudflare's...

How is it a huge privacy violation versus all the other networks their traffic is already passing through? Are you not using https on all your sites?

That's a view which neglects that for many it has nothing to do with in-house expertise. For some, its a matter of spending time where it's most cost-effective. I wrote a suite of tools for my sites, including a dynamic robots.txt generator which would create rules based on what was fetching it...

Giving estimated dates, that's a fool's game for developers, as it inevitably will burn them. They either miss the date and get flack, or they release too soon and get flack for buggy software. After 4 decades of software development, I can tell you from first-hand experience that developers...

IMHO, someone selling their forum is not unethical, and often times VS will require an NDA during negotiations that prevents the person from sharing that a sale is possible. This is common practice with business sales of all types. VS does not "own" the content and media. They are doing the...

Is their time worth something, or the time they might pay a tech?

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There is no one size fits all for optimizations due to differences in traffic, ram, CPU(s), storage type (SSD vs NVMe vs traditional hard drive), database version, PHP version, type of web server software, etc. Proper optimization requires looking at web/php performance stats, MySQL data...

And yet, here you are.

You'll have to do one of the following: 1. Upgrade your web hosting to MySQL 5.7 and PHP 7.2 at minimum. 2. Copy the files and database to web hosting which supports the above minimum. 3. Hire someone to do it but you'd still need to have hosting which meats the minimum requirements.