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Archive for February, 2012
How to install PHP memcache
Feb 28th
This guide will help you install PHP Memcache on a CentOS server.
What is PHP memcache?In my previous article, I showed you how to install Memcached, the service daemon. Now, if you would like your PHP software to interface with that daemon, you will want to install a PHP extension for it.
There are actually two separate implementations of a PHP Client that wraps the memcached (daemon); both are provided via the PECL library. One is called ‘memcache’ and the other is called ‘memcached’. I know that it is a little confusing that ‘memcached’ shares the same name as the daemon itself, More >
How to install Memcached
Feb 8th
# Updates # 02/22/12 – Updated RPM locations
This guide will help you setup Memcached on a CentOS server.
What is cachingBefore diving into Memcache specifically, let’s take a step back. What is caching? Why should you care and why should you use it? Caching is used for two very important reasons: to speed up the delivery of the pages and to alleviate system resources. Caching is used to speed up dynamic sites; database driven sites will benefit most form caching. Think about a WordPress site. Each page you visit is not an actually file, but rather an amalgamation of the More >
Spoofed Bingbot attacks against WP
Feb 2nd
# Updates # 02/04/12 – Revised wording to reinforce Bing’s perspective # 02/02/12 – Modified block code to identify bingbot as ‘badbingbot’ in case ‘bingbot’ is already being used somewhere
In the last 24 hours, I have seen a large scale attack on the admin logins for thousands of WordPress sites. The attackers are using the User Agent ‘Bingbot’. Bingbot certainly is NOT the culprit in these attacks, but is, unfortunately, being spoofed. These spoofing bots are attacking the wp-admin page. So far, I have only seen this affect WP Mage and Mage Monster users.
A brute force attack on any login is More >
