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Recent content by Peter Downes

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    Question Disaster Recovery Strategy - Remote Backup Storage for Faster Critical Site Restoration

    Thank you @Maarten for the detailed and practical advice! The SSHFS recommendation makes a lot of sense - better performance and stability is exactly what we need. I hadn’t considered the backup bloat issue either, so those WordPress exclusions will be very helpful. Really appreciate you...
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    Question Disaster Recovery Strategy - Remote Backup Storage for Faster Critical Site Restoration

    Our Situation: We experienced a catastrophic disk hardware failure on our managed dedicated AlmaLinux server (560GB, ~100 WordPress sites and x1 Bespoke PHP website that is 60GB via Plesk Web Host Edition). The recovery process took: 6+ hours of fsck attempts 19+ hours for bare-metal restore...
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    caching (nginx) and/or Redis for WP speed optimisation

    Thanks @IgorG I'll raise this with my SysAdmin.
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    caching (nginx) and/or Redis for WP speed optimisation

    Thanks Igor I get the following warning when I launch Docker in my Plesk dashboard: “Warning: Local Docker nodes cannot be deployed in this environment. Only remote Docker nodes are available. Refer to this document for more information about the environment suitable for local Docker nodes...
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    caching (nginx) and/or Redis for WP speed optimisation

    Found this, “If your WordPress site is static and all it needs to load are a stylesheet and some images, for example, you’re not going to see any difference in you use object caching. So, if your site gets a lot of traffic or you’re expecting it will soon, and it’s dynamic, you should...
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    caching (nginx) and/or Redis for WP speed optimisation

    Thanks. Discovered I need to pay for licence in order to use it. Just wondering if, unlike nginx caching, Redis is always a ‘neutral’ or positive asset, never harmful….
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    caching (nginx) and/or Redis for WP speed optimisation

    Thanks Kasper, that’s very helpful. I’ll enable Redis but keep my expectations low. Will update this thread with my experience. In the meantime I found this Plesk article on nginx caching and, given the profile of my sites, I’m wary of using it...
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    caching (nginx) and/or Redis for WP speed optimisation

    Hi I'd like to understand how best to speed up the performance of our hosted WordPress sites. I've read that these is no need to run WP Toolkit caching (nginx) alongside a WP performance plugin. Does Redis work run alongside WP Toolkit caching (nginx) or a WP performance plugin or should I...
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    Resolved Contradictory Plugin Listings - BackupBuddy 8.7.5

    Thank you - that makes sense (tho' I couldn't load the link).
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    Resolved Contradictory Plugin Listings - BackupBuddy 8.7.5

    Hi Community Plesk WordPress Toolkit is showing my sites are using BackupBuddy 8.7.5 under Plugins https://~/modules/wp-toolkit/index.php/index/plugins And has a Vulnerable tooltip warning which reads 'WordPress Backup Buddy plugin 8.5.8.0 - 8.7.4.1 - Unauthenticated Path Traversal / Arbitrary...
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    Question Recommendation for Security, Server Tools, Monitoring

    Hi Forum At the moment we have BitNinja running but I'm thinking about replacing it with an equivalent. Does anyone have a recommendation or can point me at a good comparison resource? Thanks
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    Resolved Best extension for entire server backups?

    Hi Brendon I'm facing a similar dilemma. I'd interested to know if and what conclusion you came to if you don't mind sharing? TIA
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    Question Clamscan reports infected files in Maldet dirs

    Found this for anybody who follows me. maldetect + ClamAV false Positive · Issue #87 · rfxn/linux-malware-detect · GitHub
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