Scalability Blog

We have previously covered how to add Time-based One-time Password Algorithm (TOTP) on your mobile device.  Now we can implement SSH access with TOTP. It is more secure to use public key authentication, and disable any password and challenge-based authentication for SSH. However, there are times when you have to have access to your server but you don’t have your public keys with you. In this case, we’ll need to allow root …

Introduction
When working with WordPress in a more secure environment where websites are not entirely world-writable, you will notice upgrades request FTP or FTPS credentials as the server itself does not typically have write access in properly-configured environments. Entering these credentials for every upgrade can become quite tedious, and WordPress has implemented some constants you can define within wp-config.php to make upgrades automatic.
It should be noted here that you can also make upgrades …