Block spam bots and evil web scrapers
I noticed on one server today a huge CPU load. A quick look at Netstat showed that most of the current traffic was coming from someone in Africa. I crossed referenced the IP address from Netstat with…
cPanel hosted sites return Error 404 when using .htaccess basic auth with Apache
Easy fix when Basic Auth on a cPanel server returns an Error 404 page.
Setting up gzip compression on Apache 2.x
Have you ever thought about using gzip compression on Apache? Well, think no more and do. It is well worth it as many people will point out. After playing with it, and breaking things, and fixing…