Devops

Configuring Nginx rate limiting for Magento is both simple to get started, but complex to find the right balance. It is a great way to combat malicious traffic from web scrapers/crawlers, and less respectful 3rd party integrations. The default nginx status code for the limit is 503, it is important to change this to HTTP 429 Too Many Requests. HTTP 429 is the standard rate limiting code, and should prevent any negative indexing results with search engines, and as a bonus any bots should slow their crawl rate (if they respect the response code)....

The last few years i recently migrated to using Roots Bedrock to bootstrap new wordpress developments. It provides a host of extra features that makes wordpress half decent to work with, such as Composer support, ENV variables, ENV specific config, better directory structure etc. I suggest checking it out if you haven’t already. Anyway, since I mostly focus on Magento development. My goto local dev environment is Warden which does support standard Wordpress out the box, along with a few other PHP frameworks....

Frontend monitoring is a crucial part of running online ecommerce stores. Although in a Agency context, a lot of the SaaS options can get expensive quickly especially for smaller merchants. By self hosting Sentry, we can elevate a lot of this cost. We are using Hetzner as our host, due to the low cost and high specs of some machines in their server Auction. The machine specs in particular are: 14C/20T 2....

When setting up a VPN you have the option to either route all traffic through, or only route specific traffic through it. Some of the benefits with split routing within a development team context are: Increased privacy Reduced VPN load, allowing more connections / less allocated resources Access to both local & VPN network resources while connected Server Configuration Within your main server configuration file server.conf remove the line that looks like the following if it exists...

You can simplify OpenVPN installation by using the OpenVPN installation script by NYR https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install On your target installation server, run the following to download and execute the script into your home directory. wget https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install/raw/master/openvpn-install.sh -O ~/openvpn-install.sh bash ~/openvpn-install.sh Default options you can choose are: UDP Protocol Port 1194 DNS Server 1.1.1.1 After the installer runs, you can now connect to the VPN, and you can rerun the script to add/remove clients or uninstall OpenVPN....