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Did you ever heard the statement "a fish rots from the head down"? This phrase is often used to blame the leadership for the failure of an organization, but it …
What are HTTP Security Headers and how to properly implement them in IIS, Apache and Nginx to secure your web site Read More
When it comes to security in ASP.NET Core, the hard part is not remembering to enable HTTPS or configure Security Headers, which we have already covered extensively in the past. …
ASP.NET Core Hardening Guide: Upload Security, Data Protection, CSRF, and HSTS How to reduce the attack surface of an ASP.NET Core web app by tightening uploads, cookies, CSRF defenses, security headers, key handling, and abuse protection Read More
Not every application needs Kubernetes, Helm, an ingress controller, a secret operator, and the operational overhead that comes with them. In many cases, especially for small teams, internal products, single-tenant …
Deploying .NET Applications with GitHub Actions and GHCR: An End-to-End Guide A practical guide to publishing and deploying .NET, Node.js, or any containerized workload using GitHub Actions, GitHub Container Registry, Docker Compose, and a traditional Linux server Read More
If you’ve already read my article about azure-tempdisk-bootstrap, you know how useful it is to take advantage of Azure’s ephemeral resource disk to store temp and cache data for Nginx, …
How to set Linux swapfile on an Azure VM temp disk A lightweight service + script tool to create and activate a swapfile on Azure’s temporary disk (/mnt) at every boot Read More
If you’ve ever hosted web applications on Microsoft Azure, you probably know that every VM comes with a so-called ephemeral disk (usually mounted at /mnt). It’s fast, SSD/NVMe-backed storage with …
How to boost your Azure web-server performance An open-source bootstrap script to configure Nginx, PHP, .NET, and WordPress caches on Azure’s local temp disk for faster, more efficient web apps Read More
Finding unknown files (especially if they are executable scripts like PHP files and/or configuration files, such as php.ini) within WordPress directories can be a sign of malware infection, an anomalous …
WordPress Security: What to Do When You Find Suspicious Files From Detecting Suspicious Files to Advanced Protection: Practical Strategies to Secure WordPress. Log Analysis, Malware Removal, and Security Settings Read More
When deploying ASP.NET Core applications on Linux servers, it’s essential to ensure that the application restarts automatically after each deployment, as well as system updates or unexpected crashes: unfortunately, the …
Auto-restart ASP.NET Core apps after deployment on Linux using incron How to automatically restart your ASP.NET Core web applications hosted on your Linux server after the deploy using incron Read More
From an IT networking perspective, a proxy server is a dedicated application that acts as an intermediary between a client that requests a resource and the server that provides that …
Types of Proxy Servers: SOCKS, HTTP(S), FTP, SSL A high-level overview of the various proxy server protocols available nowadays and the main benefits they provide Read MoreIf you're using a reverse proxy, a CDN such as Cloudflare, a third-party Wide Application Firewall, or any other intermediate caching and/or forwarding service to serve your website over the …
Check if an IP Address is within a given Subnet Mask in C# A simple helper method that can be used to check if a specific IP address is part of a given Subnet Mask using C# Read More If you've stumbled upon this post, it most likely means that you're trying to fix a nasty issue affecting your Linux server: every time you upload some new files to …
Linux - Set a default Group when creating new Files with SSH/FTP How to set a default group when creating, uploading, or adding new files in Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and other Linux distributions Read More