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a DevSecOps engineer from Brazil 🖖

How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part I

This article was originally published on Sucuri blog (read here). Denial of Service (Dos) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are unforgiving. They test the limits of your web server and application resources by sending spikes of fake traffic to your website. It is also notoriously difficult to…

WordCamp São Paulo 2017

On the 2nd December, I will be hosting a talk named "Website Optimization for Performance & Resilience Gain" at Impacta Barra Funda in Sao Paulo, addressing principles, techniques and tools to optimize and develop websites that are fast, robust and lightweight, ready to receive large volumes of access…

How to fix Awstats cPanel 404 Error

The last update of cPanel 62 (build 17) for some reason disappeared with Awstats in a few servers I managed. Luckily, cPanel provides their own RPM of Awstats, so with a few commands you can have Awstats working again: If you are not running as…

Testing the Impacts of Website Caching Tools

This article was originally published on Sucuri blog (read here). Try to remember what you ate for lunch yesterday. It took you about 3-5 seconds, right? Ok. Now recall that memory once more. Took you less than a second this time, for sure. You remembered much faster the…