Monthly Archive:: October 2017
The folks at Hetzner have recently launched their cloud platform and to test out the service and also to do a good impression they are giving out up to three free cloud servers per customer for a limited time, while the platform is still in beta. They offer the possibility to deploy cloud servers in
One of the nastiest problems when it comes to webserver resource and bandwidth usage is represented by the bad referrers which associate with a series of artificial queries from various hostnames that spam the crap out of the webserver and statistical logs. Because the accuracy of the statistical traffic reports is highly influenced by such
One of the most recent challenges I came across lately was to block malicious bots, harvesters and crawlers or other similar user-agents that should not access my data in Nginx. I already had such a system in place for Apache as I’m running all public websites with Apache, but since I have Nginx as reverse
