No-one likes spam specially HOTMAIL. Personally, I’d rather HOTMAIL adopted the Gmail approach of moving suspected spam into a spam folder instead of rejecting the email. In this case, HOTMAIL has determined my Internet Service Provider’s IP Address is blocked, not me or my IP address but the entire network. My ISP is Optus (Australia) so effectively, […]
How to change .htaccess IP address
This explains how to update an IP address in a .htaccess file. 1. Login to cpanel (hosting control panel). 2. Go to File Manager 3. Select public_html (left side navigation), displays all folders & files 4. Highlight (left click) .htaccess (first file under folders). If you cannot see the file, go to Settings (top right […]
Best WordPress Security Fix
How we locked down our WordPress web sites, but in one move drastically improved server performance. Keeping in mind that the most common attack against WordPress is brute force passwords, then why not stop it in it’s tracks by blocking access to wp-admin. By blocking all access to WordPress Admin except to known IP Addresses, […]
WordPress Admin Protection
This post explains how WordPress owners can lock down and fully protect their website, and improve server performance. It is achieved by denying access to WordPress Admin by allowing only known IP Addresses to access the area. All Ripefruit hosting clients with WordPress are fully protected If a client sees a 404 or 500 Forbidden […]
Wordfence Alert Alert
I’m frustrated! I continually receive these Wordfence Alert emails from the Wordfence plugin, except they are 100% wrong. The two anomalies that Wordfence refuse to accept are: We have BLOCKED all access to the login page by IP Address via .htaccess file Using another plugin, we have changed the name of the login page. I […]