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Improve website security with HTTP Security Headers – OpenLiteSpeed Tutorial

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What are Security Headers? These are a set of commands or directives configured for your website or web server. These directives tell the browsers what is allowed and what isn’t allowed for your website in terms of security and code execution. This helps protect the client browsers and also your website, from attacks and malicious …

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How To Replace SSH Keys for Amazon Lightsail Server Instance

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This tutorial walks through replacing the SSH Key pair for an existing AWS Lightsail server instance. This can be helpful when you have shared your private key with others and no longer want them to have access to your server instance. We will look at how to setup Custom key pairs in Lightsail dashboard, and …

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Setup and Secure CPANEL / WHM on AWS Lightsail

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Today will be a refresher video on setting up Cpanel for Lightsail. A while back I did an introductory video on setting up Cpanel on Lightsail instance. This was when AWS introduced an blueprint/image of Cpanel for Lightsail instances. It was a popular video and based on comments and emails many of you found it …

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How To Setup Amazon Lightsail Alarms Notifications

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In this video we walkthrough setting up Lightsail Alarm Notifications. This is a feature that should notify you by SMS or Email when your instances are experiencing spikes in usage. I would recommend using an external monitoring service in addition to this service as I don’t believe it covers all outage scenarios currently. But it …

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How to setup AWS IAM Lightsail User and Permissions

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In this video I will walkthrough the process of setting up a separate AWS User for the Lightsail Console with restricted permissions. This will be useful if you need to give access to someone else other than you to maintain a Lightsail server instance. If you need to have someone let’s say manage a Lightsail …

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WordPress Tips 8 - Securing WordPress Website with 8 easy Rules

WordPress Tips: 8 steps to secure your WordPress website with .htaccess

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In this video, I will continue tips on securing your #WordPress website. Its important to take the time to apply some simple security mechanisms to ensure your website doesn’t get compromised. We will walk you through 8 settings/rules you can apply to protect your website. Most of these steps involve .htaccess so make sure your …

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WordPress Tips 7 - Securing WordPress Website with wp-config Settings

How to Secure Your WordPress Website with wp-config Tweaks

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In this video, we will talk-through 7 steps in securing your WordPress site through the wp-config.php settings. Many of these settings that I will show you do not come setup by default so if you’ve built your website on WordPress, check these out and make sure you’ve applied them to your production sites. NOTE: Before …

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Enhancing site security with new Lightsail firewall feature

AWS Lightsail for Beginners – Enhancing server security with new Lightsail Firewall Features

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In this video I will show you the new Lightsail Firewall feature. Lightsail now allows you to restrict ports to specific IP Addresses. This feature added a layer of extra security for your Lightsail instances. Along with this update, Lightsail offers two more capabilities: Explicitly allowing or disallowing remote access to instances via Lightsail’s web-based …

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Protect and Speed Up WordPress websites

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In this video, I’ll show you how to protect and speed up a WordPress website. We’ll be using a service called CloudFlare. CloudFlare can protect and optimize any website but in this video we will focus on CloudFlare configuration specific to WordPress. I will walk through 3 steps on configuring CloudFlare. There are several other …

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