Category: Tutorials

  • Troubleshooting WordPress. Part 1.

    Troubleshooting WordPress. Part 1.

    In November this year, it will be 3 years since I joined the Kinsta.com team, which for me is honestly an incredible milestone. Last year, I was promoted to Senior Support Engineer and Malware Specialist and this year I was moved to Malware & Abuse Engineer, a title that I am loving and that represents…

  • What the hell is cURL?

    What the hell is cURL?

    cURL is an open source command line application tool that allows you to transfer data on HTTP, HTTP/2, FTP and many others. It is used by computers, cell phones, cars, tablets, IoT devices and many more. On this article we are going to focus on using cURL to troubleshoot websites only. Installation Depending on the…

  • Protegiendo WordPress – Presentación para la Comunidad WP de San Salvador

    Protegiendo WordPress – Presentación para la Comunidad WP de San Salvador

  • miniDLNA issues on MacOS Mojave (part 1)

    miniDLNA issues on MacOS Mojave (part 1)

    Last week I finally had some courage to update my Macbook to Mojave. The latest version of the MacOS family. The only thing I was really looking forward was the security updates and Dark Mode. Aside from that, it was unappealing to me. Today, I downloaded some videos and wanted to fire up my minidlna…

  • WordPress Administrado vs Alojamiento Compartido #WCSJO2018

    WordPress Administrado vs Alojamiento Compartido #WCSJO2018

    El día de ayer, Domingo 22 de Julio del 2018, me uní a más de 700 personas para ser parte del tercer WordCamp de Costa Rica.  El evento estuvo super concurrido y con asistentes de Argentina, España, Estados Unidos, Guatemala, El Salvador y siempre miembros de la Comunidad WordPress de Nicaragua. En esta última edición…

  • Introduction to WordPress Security by Sucuri

    Introduction to WordPress Security by Sucuri

    Security on websites and mostly on WordPress which is on more than 29% of the entire internet, its crucial, preventive security is 10 times cheaper than proactive security. Below is an amazing and easy to follow infographic about WordPress Security by my favorite Website Security provider: Sucuri See the full infographic here: https://sucuri.net/infographics/intro-to-wordpress-security  

  • Understanding HTTP Headers

    Understanding HTTP Headers

    If you do not know what HTTP Headers are, let me run a quick introduction, and if you do, then it would be just a refreshment. What is HTTP anyways? HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, which is the protocol that we use on our browsers and to visit web pages and similar services.…

  • MacOS Improvements: Homebrew

    MacOS Improvements: Homebrew

    For those who have used any Linux distro like Debian or CentOS, you are pretty familiar with packet managers. But this is also for all those Mac newbies out there, basically a packet manager is: … a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer‘s operating…

  • Oh-My-ZSH on MacOS Sierra

    Oh-My-ZSH on MacOS Sierra

    If you are a developer, coder, sysadmin or IT Pro I assume that you have used the terminal either on your Unix, Linux, Mac o Windows. And the shell that usually comes as default is the good old faithful BASH shell, which is nice but not cool. What is Oh-My-Zsh? Oh-My-Zsh is an open source,…

  • Clearing CloudProxy cache via PHP

    Clearing CloudProxy cache via PHP

    For those who are not familiar let me explain what CloudProxy is. CloudProxy is the Web Application Firewall & Caching service from my employer, Sucuri.net. This service is setup at the DNS level and helps filtering all the HTTP requests that get to your website and speeding the performance a the same time. Below is…