How to secure WordPress on a Linux VPS

wordpress-logoWordPress is by far the most popular tool for creating original websites and blogs. In fact, more than 60 million people use WordPress to run their websites or blogs. Having in mind its popularity, WordPress is a common target of different types of attacks. Hackers will try to exploit any WordPress weakness in order to steal important user information, install malicious software etc. and that is why it is important to secure the WordPress installation on your Linux VPS.

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Install Jetty on a CentOS 7 VPS

jetty-logoIn the following article we are going to explain how you can install Jetty on a CentOS 7 VPS.

Jetty is a Java HTTP (Web) server and Java Servlet container and provides support for SPDY, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and many other integrations. It is often used for machine to machine communications, within larger software frameworks. Jetty is developed as a free and open source project as part of the Eclipse Foundation.

Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. It can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters.

Jetty has the following features:

  • Full-featured and standards-based
  • Open source and commercially usable
  • Flexible and extensible
  • Small footprint
  • Embeddable
  • Asynchronous
  • Enterprise scalable
  • Dual licensed under Apache and Eclipse

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How to install phpList on a CentOS 7 VPS

phplistphpList is very popular and simple to use open source newsletter system which is designed for the dissemination of information, such as newsletters, news, advertising to list of subscribers. It allows users to add and manage email subscribers, create their own mailing lists and send email newsletters. phpList is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database to store the information. It is readily available and fairly easy to install on any Linux VPS system.

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How to install SSHGuard on an Ubuntu VPS

logoSSHGuard is very useful monitoring tool for preventing brute force attacks. SSHGuard reads log messages from standard input and determines malicious activities. If an attack is detected, the attacking IP address is immediately blocked in the firewall. In this article we will guide you through the steps of installing SSHGuard on an Ubuntu VPS and protecting your server against brute-force attacks.

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