I was 7 years old when the Commodore 64 was released in 1982. At the time the popular systems were the Apple II, the TRS-80, and the Atari 800 but in the late 80’s the Commodore 64 was king, having over forty percent of the market share and continuously selling 2 million plus units …

PHP 8.0.0 has arrived and was released on November 26th, 2020. This is a major update that provides some exciting new features and optimizations. Union types, JIT compiler improvements, named arguments, new static return type, and more! …

You can enable tight login security for WordPress on Apache and NGINX rather easily. To do this on Apache you'll use an .htaccess file in your webroot and on NGINX you'll modify the configuration file for your site. This post will explain exactly how-to do this on both server types (LAMP & LEMP)…

The shell script below can be used to easily backup your PHP/MySQL based websites. All you have to do is connect to your webserver over SSH, determine where you want to store the backup script, copy the contents of the Gist below to a new file named backup.sh or whatever name you like…

PHP version 5 (5.6.38) officially reached end-of-life on December 31st, 2018. This affects countless websites that are powered by popular PHP/MySQL based content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, CraftCMS and many others…

Postfix is a robust mail server freely available on almost all Linux systems. In this post I’ll explain how you can easily configure your Postfix mail server to relay your outbound mail to the Gmail SMTP server…