Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
Joomla websites abused as open proxy for Denial-of-Service attacks
Joomla websites using the Googlemaps plugin for Joomla are actively abused as open proxy for launching Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. Even though the Googlemaps plugin vulnerability plugin_googlemap2_proxy.php was released over one and a half (1,5) years ago, I still see these DoS-attacks happening on a regular basis...
How to set a good PHP realpath_cache_size
Conditionally start Application Pools on remote IIS web servers
Custom PHP version on IIS Express and WebMatrix 3
Mod_evasive on IIS
Website DDoS protection with mod_evasive. Mod_evasive is a module for Apache and Windows Server IIS (using Helicon Ape). It provides protection and evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS-, DDoS or brute force attack. Detection is performed by creating an internal dynamic hash table of IP Addresses and URIs, and denies an IP address access to a website if it's requesting the same page more than 10 times a second. This is configurable.
Remove IIS Server version HTTP Response Header
.svc WCF web service returns 404 Not Found on IIS 8
Send email with Ghost using SMTP authentication and TLS encryption
Ghost Publishing platform uses Nodemailer to send e-mails with Node.js. It can send e-mail using SMTP, sendmail or Amazon SES and is Unicode friendly. As you know, more and more web hosting providers require SMTP authentication (often abbreviated as SMTP AUTH) and a TLS encrypted connection to send email. Here you'll find some script examples to Send secure SMTP email from your website.