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I have a full-time web development job, and can no longer offer per-project services.

Decades of experience developing and hosting websites, from small local sites with only a few html pages, to high-traffic sites with thousands of users and pages. 

I’ve been building websites since the early days of the world wide web. I know where it came from, and where it’s going. I can handle any level of website from a single page to a fully secure online business system. My clients include educational institutions, small businesses, manufacturers, non-profit organizations and developers in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

WordPress Fail2Ban RegEx for RedHat, CentOS, Amazon Linux

By on May 29, 2013 in Amazon Web Services, Consulting, Content Management Systems, Cpanel, PHP, Virtualmin, Wordpress

VacantServer WordPress sites are getting hammered with bad logins and probes. We’ve implemented a plugin to log failed login attempts to syslog, and a Fail2Ban filter for the same. If you run these on RedHat, you’ll need some additional configuration info… here it is: WordPress login failure regex (error_log): ^%(__prefix_line)sAuthentication failure for .* from <HOST>$ […]

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Fail2Ban Regex for RedHat, Fedora, CentOS and Amazon Linux 2013

By on April 19, 2013 in Amazon Web Services

Fail2Ban is a very efficient daemon that scans log files for malicious activity, and offers several options to ban offending IPs and hostnames. Although it is highly configurable, it requires a depth of knowledge beyond that required for GUI-accessible firewalls such as ConfigServer Security & Firewall. Harden the Kernel Before do anything further, it is […]

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Auto Mailer Form with Validation and reCAPTCHA

By on January 16, 2013 in Forms, PHP

I was recently searching for a form template that uses Twitter’s Bootstrap framework. PFBC, the PHP Form Builder Class, was recently refactored with Bootstrap, and it also supports validation and reCAPTCHA. PFBC does not include a form handler, but it does take the difficult and redundant work out of creating self-validating forms. Adding an auto-mailer […]

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Trawire website

Portable Wifi Hotspot Rental Site

By on September 12, 2012 in Amazon Web Services, Consulting, Content Management Systems, E-Commerce, Forms, PHP, Portfolio, Small Business, Travel, Virtualmin, Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

Trawire.com offers portable 4G MiFi and iPad rentals for visitors traveling to Iceland. Trawire’s CIO approached me for assistance after his systems administrator bailed and left him with a poorly maintained, self-hosted MacMini server running unoptimized WordPress installs. I migrated the site to Amazon Web Services, where it now can handle traffic spikes and can be […]

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Varnish VCL and Config for WordPress with W3 Total Cache

By on August 14, 2012 in Amazon Web Services, Consulting, Content Management Systems, Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

I have been working on a Varnish front-end for Apache, to be used with WordPress sites. I described the architecture in Load Balancing Virtualmin WordPress Hosting Server with Varnish on AWS. I now have a configuration that seems to work for all WordPress features, including logged-out commenting. This configuration also works well with W3 Total […]

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Punktastic.com web site

Punk Rock Music Community

By on April 10, 2012 in Consulting, Music, Portfolio, Publishing, Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

Punktastic.com is a community powered site that covers punk music in Britain, but is poised to go worldwide. They cover punk and hardcore shows and festivals, and provide album reviews, video interviews and more. With a growing audience and user base, Punktastic needed a more reliable and robust web server, so they made the move […]

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WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin)

By on March 12, 2012 in Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

Virtualmin now includes support for Nginx web server. I deploy many WordPress sites with W3 Total Cache and APC Alternative PHP Cache, so I was very interested to see how Nginx performance compares to Apache for WordPress, and whether APC and W3TC would play nice with Nginx. I prefer to install WordPress in public_html/wordpress for […]

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SoccerNews.com website

Apache and MySql Performance Tuning for High Traffic WordPress Website on Cpanel

By on August 26, 2011 in Web Server Performance Tuning

SoccerNews.com is a high traffic WordPress site with over 600,000 unique visitors and over 2,000,000 page impressions per month. It is a content republisher and aggregator, presenting custom XML feeds for (what else?) soccer news from all over the world. The site has a very active user base, providing content in the forms of editorials and […]

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