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Security Through Obscurity is Not Security At All
There’s a specific class of common WordPress security advice that just isn’t really worth all the time and energy that people spend on it: hiding the fact that you’re running WordPress. We think that while some of the often-recommended “security through obscurity” features have value for an average WordPress site, they aren’t worth the hassle.
In this article, we’ll start with a brief overview of how to think about security with WordPress, cover what “security through obscurity” is, which practice it entails, and then what modest benefit it does have.
Google Cloud vs AWS in 2017 (Comparing the Giants)
Typically when we think of cloud computing providers we are referring to the three giants in the industry: Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS. Today we’re going to compare just two of them, Google Cloud vs AWS. We exclusively utilize Google Cloud Platform here at Kinsta, but we’ll try to keep this article as unbiased as possible and explain everything in layman’s terms. There are definitely some advantages and disadvantages to both providers.
GitLab Raises $20 Million Series C Round, Adds Matt Mullenweg to Board of Directors
GitLab celebrated its sixth anniversary as an open source project and announced a $20 million Series C round of funding led by GV General Partner Dave Munichiello. In addition to the $20 million in funding, the company also announced that it has appointed Matt Mullenweg to its board of directors.
