by Ruchira on January 2, 2012

This will be a 2 part guide and this is part 1
What are the common mistakes that you make!
ever got your wordpress blog hacked? Well even my blog got hacked once
Take a look at the image on the top. From this simple how to guide, Im going to explain some little facts about the common mistakes that you make against security and if you got hacked some tips that you can use to remove the malicious stuff from your blog and get back to running condition.
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by Ruchira on January 1, 2012
I have published article about my modified nginx auto installer about little over a year ago. Which can be found here. Which got somewhat famous and counted over 1000 installs. The framework which I was used was came from a chinese developer called licess and the framework now has been evolved a lot and now we can count it as fully fledged auto installer. It now includes latest nginx version ( Which lacked at the time which I modified the script to include the latest and greatest) . And also now it includes separately tweaked installers for debian, centos, and ubuntu, which I had on my modified installer since day one
So its nice to see that he baked 2 options which my modified installer had since day one.
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by Ruchira on December 31, 2011
It was not more than 2 days which yandex started to send me emails telling that my blog is infected by malware
Hi,
Some of the pages on your website may pose a threat to your visitor’s computer security. The number of potentially harmful pages is 2. You can view the details of our malware scan at http://yandex.com/infected?url=www.ruchirablog.com&l10n=en
And I got worried because yandex is a considerable source and started checking my blog for any type of infections such as index.php exploits (this happens about 95% of the time) and ran many virus checks to see any infections and nothing exciting was found.
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by Ruchira on December 28, 2011
You may have noticed the new widget on my right side bar which is displaying my facebook fan page details. Yeah I have created a facebook fan page for my blog which is located right here . I know Im too late on this, I have created my facebook profile on 2008 and up to the date I didnt thought about having a facebook fan page for my blog because I didnt trusted it to be a good traffic maker.
However I had the feedburner since the beginning and it counts 1445 subscribers as im writing this. That was a huge achievement and its not like having 1445 facebook fans, it really worth 5X than the facebook likes for me as the email subscriptions really show the encouragement of readers toward reading this blog rather than clicking the like button.
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by Ruchira on December 21, 2011
by Ruchira on December 17, 2011
If you are sending considerable amount of emails to your visitors or customers you may have a problem reaching most of the users inbox because the risk of getting your IP’s blacklisted etc. So using your own servers to send emails for like 1000 users per day is a disaster because of the possibility of getting blacklisted. And a simple workaround for this problem is using Google Apps mail and its SMTP functionality.
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by Ruchira on October 27, 2011

Too many reviews these days meh? But I cant pass this one because working on this thing has become integral part of my carrier now. Its SocialEngine and its used to create social networks. Yes its like wordpress, its a script but costs money. In my case we spent $669 for the script and all the default plugins. But its kinda worth the money we spent and it got many options to customize the features.
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by Ruchira on October 25, 2011
I have always recommended linode ( A XEN VPS hosting company) for you! Checkout my last 100 day uptime review here- http://www.ruchirablog.com/linode-xen-vps-review/
Trust me guys its amazing experience which I’m having with Linode. Today I hit the milestone of 365 days of uptime on the VPS which hosts this blog. Now I have 4 Linode 512 plans on their London Data Center and another one which runs the web site of the company which I work on is having 371 of uptime as of now.

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