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Have you ever encounter your site have been compromised, and you found some weird file being uploaded into your hosting account? Thats what the first thing the attacker would want to do on a web attack, to upload a webshell. Webshell is some kind of web-based backdoor, usually protected by a password, and allow the [...]

I had a few encounters with this problem. I’m thinking of placing it here. I always forget where I got the solutions. This happens when you want to install plugin or themes, or upgrading them. Given that you have the FTP credentials correct, there some glitch where you might encounter this problem. One way, it [...]

In my previous article I have wrote on how to store your files on Amazon S3 to distribute the file over different server. In one perspective, its not a really good solutions, as the content serve by my web server and Amazon S3 might have different latency, and will affect my users browsing experience in [...]

Lately I’ve been looking around some solutions what could reduce the load and connections to my server and I found out, one interesting service from Amazon, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This service allow you to store your web files into cloud storage in amazon infrastructure, and can retrieve it from anywhere through a custom [...]

I’m adding up plugins in my site as I need it. Now, I encounter a need to have a lightbox image preview, a javascript tool that allow a larger set of image to be displayed in a nice way. I have browsed around, and have to choose something that compatible to my site requirements. For [...]

I have recently registered as Amazon Associates, just wasting my time looking for some part time income while blogging. Amazon do have some tools to allow bloggers or website owners to publish code, linked to out affiliate account for tracking. First, you can register for Associate account here. There are few was you can link [...]

If you managing a wordpress site, or any CMS, I’m sure you will encounter spam activity. It is actually a bot, or a small program that will come and visit your site, to register or post a comment. Thanks to Akismet, a default plugin that bundled together in WordPress package, that blocked most of it. [...]

This is one of the useful wordpress plugins thats useful for simple site statistic, on post popularity. This is the snippet, taken from alexking page. ” Popularity Contest is a WordPress plugin that keeps track of activity on your blog and calculates a popularity percentage for each post and page. The popularity display you see: Popularity: [...]