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Dan Pock

Dan Pock does Technical Writing & Marketing at Liquid Web with a background in System Administration, Public Relations, and Customer Service. His favorite things include: his cats, Oscar Boots and Dash Nouget; experimenting with PHP; and making up recipes (or at least attempting to). You can find his coding hijinks on GitHub, where he shares most of his projects and open source work.

The Five Habits Of Highly Effective Sysadmins
Business

Often, the best way to improve is to study people who’ve already got things figured out. So today, let’s do that – let’s take a look at what all the best sysadmins seem to have in common. We can always be better, and we should always be looking to improve ourselves. One of the best […]

The OpenSSL Glibc Vulnerabilty, How Managed WordPress Protected Customers
Industry Insights

In the modern world of the Internet, software bugs are incredibly hard, if not impossible, to completely avoid. Generally these bugs are pretty benign: a page may not load, might be displayed incorrectly, or maybe the site is just completely down. Sure, those are major inconveniences, but the sites still exist and are safe from […]

Linux Kernels, Security, & the CVE-2016-0728 Bug. The Role of Managed WordPress
Industry Insights

When you think of your server’s security you probably think: ‘Is my site up to date?’, ‘Am I using any outdated plugins?’, or ‘Is my SSL certificate still valid?’. You’re probably not too concerned with your server’s kernel version or Operating System’s version. However, when it comes to vulnerabilities discovered in either one, it’s not […]