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How to Block Bad Bots from Your Sites/Servers

Introduction Bad bot traffic can be a huge resource hog on your servers, and some are outright malicious. They offer no value to you or your clients, and can sometimes result such high resource usage that it becomes the equivalent of a DoS attack. Fortunately, if you’ve identified a bot (by it’s user agent) that’s […]

How to Reduce Eric Jones Spam (and all the other Contact Form Spam)

Introduction I think we can all agree that whoever Eric Jones is, he’s a huge PIA. And a genius, but mostly a PIA. Recently, one of my sites started getting relentlessly hammered with “Hey, my name’s Eric and for just a second, imagine this…“, as well as a bunch of other junk that landed straight […]

OpenLiteSpeed (OLS) Caching and the LiteSpeed Cache Plugin (LSCache)

Table of Contents Introduction The LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Activating OpenLiteSpeed Caching and Redis Object Caching Part 1. Cache Settings Part 2. General Settings Part 3. CDN– QUIC.cloud Part 4. Image Optimization Part 5. Page Optimization Part 6. Database– Database Table Engine Converter Part 7. Crawler (Preload / Cache Warming / Cache Refresh) Part 8. Toolbox– […]

How to Stop WordPress Comment Spam Permanently (for FREE)

Introduction vCanopy comes with a handy security measure that can easily be activated for any sites where you don’t use WordPress comments. Chances are, this is the majority of your websites and you can easily block posting comments from being possible, automatically eliminating any potential spam. However, for those sites that do use comments, the […]