@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

Can't you still install CPanel yourself?

Why? What is the benefit / point?

Ease of use and documentation galore

Reason 18763 to always have current backups of your WordPress website and ALWAYS do your updates after you do a backup.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller I set mine to auto update. May not have been the best idea, but meh.

I think mine is set to as well...

Ok, the other thing I did was lower the number of posts per page for the main page. It's gone down from 4 to 2. That did improve system load times.

Personally use VMware LogInsight. Pricing is per socket, or per device logged (and they have a VSPP price per month). Fairly reasonable and super easy to work with.

@scottalanmiller said:

You can integrate WordPress and NodeBB so that NodeBB handles the comments for WP. It's a neat way to go.

That's pretty neat.

@scottalanmiller said:

I just use the console too. Few clicks and you are done.

Yup. Backup, Update, go back to sleep. that's my process.

@JaredBusch said:

@ajstringham I cannot help sorry, I just turned up 4 websites on my CentOS7 server. all working perfectly.

I figured out the issue. I had everything set up correctly. Turns out my NoIP settings were wrong. Once I fixed those (that is what actually fixed it), it all started working! @scottalanmiller helped out tremendously! Thanks all!

Hopefully.

I think this thread must have picked up a few buzzwords along the way. Buzz word. Buzzword. Buzzy fuzzy word...

It seems to me like the new iproute2 tools are more powerful, at least according to some articles I've seen... and they have been around since 1999 according to Wikipedia, lol.

Wow if i look back the day when i first met the CentOS. Thanks to @scottalanmiller and @Minion-Queen because of you guys I learned about them and yeah I will keep going in learning 🙂

@scottalanmiller said:

The new site is really looking awesome!

Hopefully all ok.

Email me, let me know please.

Thanks,

G 🙂

WordFence is great as mentioned earlier. I also like to use TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) and Theme-Check. Simply, TAC looks for code that doesn't belong and T-C looks to see if theme is coded to the latest specs.

I also like to check the site with http://securi.net

The hardening info is good to follow. I don't have Administrator or admin as a user and all passwords are mixed upper & lower case, numbers and symbols.

I can't stress the need to update WP, the themes and plugins. If the plugin hasn't been updated in over a year, it might be time to find something new or fork the plugin with your code.

We use WordPress for all of our clients websites. We figured if it is good enough for the NY Times and the Huffington Post, it's good enough for our clients!