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April 4, 2021

Creating my own downloads site

Topic: Admin   Tags: Anders Norén, Downloads, Mac, RMM, Windows, WordPress

Relatively speaking, for one person at least, I set up a lot of PCs, and Macs, and a few WordPress sites, all for clients. Much of the foundation work is repetitive. For example, I don't use a custom Windows install disk ... Continue Reading

December 24, 2020

Pressable – Managed WordPress Hosting, a Brief Security Review

Topic: Security   Tags: Automattic, Matt Mullenweg, Plaintext Passwords, Pressable, WordPress, WordPress Managed Hosting

Pressable: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Tl;dr - There is much I like about Pressable. However, after initial difficulties in reaching someone, I asked them why they were sending (and possibly storing) clients' ... Continue Reading

August 14, 2020

My first vulnerability submission(s)

Topic: Security   Tags: Hosting, SaaS, security.txt, Support, Vulnerability, WordPress

I've never previously submitted a vulnerability report to a provider. In the past, I've acted on a few where I've run bug bounties for clients' websites, but never from the 'ethical hacker' side. This week has been ... Continue Reading

March 31, 2020

Still plenty to-do, but optimizations so far

Topic: Admin   Tags: FastOrSlow, Lighthouse, Optimization, Wordfence, WordPress

Setting up a WordPress blog is (relatively) easy. Setting up a well developed WordPress blog is not such an easy task. There is a lot to do beyond 'go-live'. I've been doing a few performance optimization tweaks ... Continue Reading

January 30, 2020

Back by zero demand, my blog

Topic: Admin   Tags: Blogger, BlogHarbor, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Twitter, WordPress

I don't remember exactly when first I started blogging. From memory, it was sometime soon after 2002. I'd recently joined IBM Software Group, as an intern within IBM Tivoli; I'd started reading IBMers' blogs (personal, ... Continue Reading

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