mySites.guru is not just a suite of tools used by over 62,000 Joomla and WordPress sites – its also a great alerting tool that will let you know when things are happening (good? bad?) on your site!
In this blog post I’m going to cover the basics of the security audit for Joomla and WordPress sites using the unique tools found in mySites.guru.
Once your site is connected to the mySites.guru service, you can run UNLIMITED audits of your site on demand, or schedule them to run daily, weekly or monthly.
Other services claim to have an “audit” tool. Most of the time they mean they have implemented the Sucuri SiteCheck API, which only “scans” your site as a visiting browser would, it doesn’t check the files in your webspace, and doesn’t find anything that is hidden under the surface of your rendered webpages. Be warned. Not all “Audits” are in-depth and comprehensive!
Make sure you compare apples with apples. Not everyone claiming to be an “apple” is.
At the start of every audit we also run our snapshot tools, capturing over 100 quick checks of your site. Added to the audit that’s even more checks!
Continue reading “The mySites.guru Audit Tools for WordPress and Joomla Security & Best Practice – find hacks!”In this article we are going to describe the amazing and unique snapshot that is performed by mySites.guru twice a day, or on demand on your sites. The snapshot currently has over 140 data points collected within seconds!
While its not a photo of your site, it is a quick overview of hundreds of the best practice and security checks implemented – or not – on your site.
Just two months ago, we were here announcing that mySites.guru had surpassed 65,000 connected Joomla and WordPress sites.
Today we celebrate a new milestone in mySites.guru history! 66000+ Sites!
On average, our amazing subscribers are adding 500 new Joomla or WordPress sites a month to our service, that’s 6000 sites a year!
mySites.guru is a unique service to assist you in ensuring all your Joomla and WordPress sites are following the best practice, have backups, are monitored, and gives you a suite of unique tools to investigate under the hood of your site, checking each and every line of code in your webspace for hacks are much much more…
Sign up today at https://manage.mysites.guru/
Yeah any service can backup, update and monitor a site. But not all services are created equal.
Ours is invested into daily, new code deployed multiple times a day – every day. We react and respond to emerging threats, add new hack signatures and patterns daily, and our detection of Joomla and WordPress hacks in file is second to none due to my hands on approach to investigating every single hack personally.
We have been adding some amazing new features, some announced in our blog , but many not, the blog posts include:
The new platform is now Powered by PHP 8 – yes that’s right, bang up to date PHP version, and also running Symfony 5.2.1, bang up to date.
This means we can now power ahead in releasing new features at an incredible rate and be future proofed.
We also removed a lot of the technical debt that we had gained over the years, deleting over 500,000 lines of code, and deploying over 1million lines of code!
“I just want to say a personal thank you to all those that are subscribers and have been since we launched in 2012, you know who you are – your energy, suggestions and feature requests keep me on my toes daily striving to be the best service that we can possibly be.“
~Phil Taylor – Founder of mySites.guru
You can now install our Alfred Workflow, and get quick easy access to all your sites within mySites.guru!
Alfred is an award-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.
Seriously, if you are using a Mac Computer you should be using Alfred.
I have mine mapped to CMD+SPACE and just by hitting that keyboard combination I get instant access to so many features
Check out the Mac app – for FREE – at https://www.alfredapp.com
A workflow can be thought of as a plugin or extension. It adds additional functionality to Alfred.
You need the Alfred PowerPack to use workflows which is £34 (or £59 lifetime) but its still totally worth it, for the productivity you will gain. Its also very addictive to create your own workflows and power up your productivity to new levels – how do you think I work so fast? haha.
Simple.
Furthermore, you can enable public pages in your mySites.guru account, to obtain a token.
A token is just a string like smk4md33zf223efmg6y3bgbbo7mmeu63 (demo token, not real!)
You do that on the Public Site Screenshots page https://manage.mysites.guru/en/sites/screenshots
This token can then be configured in the workflow (Edit the workflow in Alfred, and paste the token in the place of the placeholder ENTER_TOKEN_HERE in the script), and will give you access to MORE features, such as listing all your sites in the Alfred search, and allowing you to jump direct to the Manage Site page for a site, making getting to the right place as simple as the following keystrokes (for a site called mySites.guru)
CMD+SPACE
my
SPACE
mys
ENTERthat’s all I type to get to the Manage Site page for mySites.guru site in my mySites.guru account ha! The “mys” filters the site list.
You read that right, you can now add, manage, audit, backup and monitor any webspace that can run PHP!
mySites.guru is most known for allowing agencies and developers to manage multiple Joomla and WordPress sites, well now you can add any webspace that can run PHP. We so that well with over 67,000 sites already connected to our platform!
Continue reading “How to manage and monitor any PHP Application with mySites.guru”You already know that mySites.guru is an amazing unique dashboard, bringing together information from all your Joomla and WordPress sites in one place, but there are some smaller features that we, and our customers just take for granted, as they only activate when something goes wrong.
SSL Certificate checks are one such feature that gets invoked when things go wrong with your site, and when you really need to be alerted to it.
There are a set of nifty HTTP Headers that you can emit from your site on every response which will harden your site against spoofing, XSS and more
Here at mySites.guru, we have just launched 8 new checks in the snapshot that is taken of your sites over twice a day!
Continue reading “Check your websites security headers with mySites.guru”Today we relaunch the site at https://fix.mySites.guru
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Continue reading “Get expert help for your Joomla and WordPress problems – immediately.”We are pleased to hit another milestone last month, adding our 68,000th site to mySites.guru, launching a new Uptime Monitoring for Joomla and WordPress sites, within mySites.guru and much more new features – including the ability to add any PHP based webspace to mySites.guru!
But that was not all.
mySites.guru has been fully compatible with Joomla 4 throughout its development cycle, and we have added some Joomla 4 specific tools to our Admin Tools for Joomla in the mySites.guru console.
Our current advice is this: Update ALL YOUR Joomla sites to Joomla 3.10.x ASAP! Seriously, just do it, the upgrade from Joomla 3.9.28 to 3.10.x is a small, simple upgrade!.
… then backup your site, restore this backup somewhere else and TEST your clone of your site with an upgrade to Joomal 4.0.x, fixing all the compatibility issues with extensions etc. There is a lot of help on the Joomla Wiki about this migration.
There has been considerable changes under the hood with the JSON API for Akeeba backup, and while other services are still playing catchup, the mySites.guru service has been fully compatible with these changes for a long time.
If your Akeeba Backup Professional is up to date, then mySites.guru can use that to back up your WordPress or Joomla site!
But wait, there is MORE! You can now use Akeeba Backup SOLO Professional, with mySites.guru, to backup ANY PHP Webspace! Awesome! mySites.guru is the only remote service that offers this integration currently!
We recently announced our new micro-service monitoring the uptime of your Joomla and WordPress sites connected to mySites.guru. This new service replaces the UptimeRobot.com integration, and we have been open and transparent about the reasons why we stopped using UptimeRobot
You can now see performance issues in the last 24 hours in a nice graph, as well as be alerted for any downtime.
Investing in development of our own rival service has saved me personally $22,416 – money better reinvested into the new features in mySites.guru!
ok, you understand by now that Im a much better developer than I am blogger… but I try 🙂 There is so much more that I have been working on recently, including attempting to bring a side project from mySites.guru to production and delivering a brand new SaaS service for Joomla and WordPress users – watch this space for announcements, you will want to be the first to sign up – trust me! haha