My Blog Posts

Changing the cPanel Default Website Page on a VPS

When setting up a new VPS you are likely going to want to make changes to the default set up.

That will likely mean changing the default website page from defaultwebpage.cgi to your own page.

Here’s a quick guide to help you on your way.

Speed Up Your Website using Caching and .htaccess

You’ve optimised your images, consolidated plugins, minified CSS and JavaScript files and cut down the number of external links your site goes to but it’s not enough is it?

You want more!  More speed….

Did you know that you can further dramatically improve the page-load times and speed up your website using caching?  And you don’t need to install any specialised plugins.

Installing & Setting up WordPress

Once you have chosen your web hosting provider the next step is to install and set up WordPress. Here’s a guide to help you through the process.

Stop Image Hotlinking

Hotlinking and is very common-place with images. People will add your image URL into their own web pages passing it off as their own. Stop that!