Lets face it, wordpress comment spam is a real pain in the butt I manage a ton of WordPress client sites and of course I always use Akismet to flag spammers. Akismet does help by flagging comments as spam in your WordPress backend, but this still means: You have to manually delete them – which(…)
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Awstats and Nginx setup on SmartOS

These days, I am doing a lot of dedicated WordPress VPS sites for clients. I always use SmartOS zones and Nginx wherever possible. Best practice is always to setup Google analytics and Google Webmaster tools to analyse traffic metrics and what is happening from a SEO perspective. I also don’t like to have all my(…)