Install Redis Daemon and Redis PHP extention on CentOS/RHEL/cPanel

Redis is an open-source, networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability. It is written in ANSI C. It’s a “NoSQL” key-value data store. More precisely, it is a data structure server. To install Redis as daemon on a CentOS/RHEL/cPanel server, do the following steps cd /usr/local/ wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.12.tar.gz tar -xvzf redis-2.8.12.tar.gz cd redis-2.8.12 make … Read more

Blocking Maliciuos bots from accessing your website

It is always a nuisance when unnecessary bots start hitting your website. It can increase CPU load on your server and may cause MySQL overhead as well, if your website driven by any database. Though the bot access says to be controlled using robots.txt files, most malicious bots do not honor rules defined in robots.txt file. The most reputed … Read more