henfred.me: Henfre's Personal Webspace

Tag: WordPress

  • WordPress Maintenance and Updated Privacy Policy

    Hello all! This website and its primary author are still alive. I’ve been going through some difficult times at work lately and in my personal life, so I haven’t had the time to produce a proper coherent blog post in a while. Nevertheless, here are a few matter-of-business updates. WordPress was updated to 6.5 “Regina.”…

  • Planned Maintenance

    This site will become unavailable about 12 hours from the time of this post and for a period of about 12 hours while servers are relocated to a new office. Please click here if you’d like to view the event in your local timezone. EDIT: Maintenance completed! Servers are now hosted in New York!

  • Website Stability Woes

    Website Stability Woes

    This site has been offline for almost a day, and I hadn’t noticed! Luckily, I came here to draft a post about my recent experience with a PHP bug, and I noticed that the page was loading to a white screen. Experience teaches me that the web server Caddy likes to return empty responses when…

  • Stability and Hardening: the Pool is Closed

    WordPress defaults enable the CMS to function in a wide variety of environments from small home servers to massive shared hosting providers to horizontally scaled applications in the cloud. However, two defaults are much less than ideal.

  • Initialization

    Initialization

    Wow! Setting up this site was a lot more involved than I expected, but I’m glad I made the ultimate decision to set up a server from scratch rather than subscribing to a shared hosting service. My main concern with using a plain VPS was that the setup would be trivially simple and result in…