As 3DPixel.net’s resident coder extraordinaire I talk with end users and design agencies on a daily basis about current projects, quoting for prospective projects and just pie in the sky ideas.
When a new project is submitted for quote, I look at the brief and make a decision about whether the site needs to be bespoke [...]

Something we’ve been playing with for a while… global gzip / deflate compression on apache servers. Naturally you can do this in php or via .htaccess but why not do it globally from the apache configuration?
Decided to give it a whirl on some of our own dedicated servers the other day.
Dowsides:

Increases CPU load
Increases CPU load
Increases [...]

These things come in cycles but it seems as if the dreaded FTP hackers are back. Inserting malware in the form of hidden iframes, unescaped javascript into people’s sites via their own FTP details. No brute force, no server exploits, just logging in as the owner and adding the details to the bottom of (usually) [...]