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Interview Hetzner - CloudFest 2025
Hetzner: Eco-responsibility at an ultra-competitive price Can saving energy make you competitive? Hetzner's answer: yes! The server supplier has been providing exemplary service to host LRob's ultra-powerful web servers for years. And I had to find out more about their magic recipe... and share it with you! An in-house strategy, literally Unlike many suppliers, Hetzner designs and manufactures much of its equipment in-house. For example? In-house 3D-printed air ducts - with the Hetzner logo, if you please... Read more >
CloudFest 2025 - Recap by LRob
CloudFest is as much a trade show for cloud players as it is a festival. Every year, it makes a lasting impression. This year, 2025, was once again rich in professional encounters and thrills! Between games, roller coasters, dinners, concerts, and professional meetings with partners, each more friendly than the last... The world of the cloud is becoming a dream working environment! But this year's plus: LRob has filmed a few videos and interviews, so that those not attending this year can still enjoy the atmosphere and... Read more >
World Data Backup Day 2025 - Web data and collaborative clouds
You don't want to know how much it would cost you to lose your business or personal data. And yet it's a very real risk - one that affects individuals and businesses alike every day, often through negligence, forgetfulness or a false sense of security. To mark World Backup Day, celebrated every year on March 31, LRob, your WordPress web hosting specialist, helps you take stock of best practices, practical solutions and pitfalls to avoid, so you never lose a precious piece of data again. What is World Data Protection Day? Read more >
Domain names: 10 rules for choosing the right one in 2025
A domain name is essential for the creation of your website and personalized emails. A good choice of domain name can be the key to your success and should be taken very seriously. LRob will soon be offering domain name registration. In the meantime, we can help you configure them and make the right choices for your project. This is your chance to take stock and choose the right domain names! If you're looking for high-performance, secure web hosting with real support... Read more >
Web host performance in 2025: test of 10 offers
How do you choose among the many shared web hosting offers? Follow this guide and test the performance of the best-known hosting providers. Read more >
WordPress 6.8 is coming: Release date and new features
WordPress 6.8 is on its way and promises to refine the user experience, while optimizing performance, design and security. Scheduled for release on April 15, 2025, this new version should delight users. ℹ️ Is your WordPress site slow, receiving too many attacks or do you need help? Power up your WordPress site like never before with LRob hosting! Sometimes it's hard to figure out what's out there... so we've untangled it for you. Here's what's in store for WordPress 6.8. WordPress 6.8 release schedule... Read more >
Nextcloud 31: What's new in this major update?
Nextcloud major version 31.0.0 was released on February 25, 2025. While the official release notes are very short this time, the enhancements are not to be outdone! At LRob, we offer managed Nextcloud instances with updates included, backed up daily, with NVMe SSD storage for maximum performance and Collabora Online integration for complete collaborative working! ➡️ Discover our Nextcloud hosting offers! And the open-source alternative to the cloud giants doesn't disappoint! As it does every 5 to 6 months, Nextcloud continues to innovate to offer an ever more... Read more >
Let's Encrypt stops SSL/TLS certificate expiration notifications: Why this is good news
As of June 4, 2025, Let's Encrypt will no longer send you emails to notify you when your SSL/TLS certificates have expired. This change, which may seem surprising, is actually excellent news for system administrators, web hosts and site owners. In this article, we'll look at why this decision simplifies certificate management and improves security. At LRob, our web hosting packages already integrate Let's Encrypt and automate SSL certificate management, ensuring that HTTPS always works without manual intervention. Let's Encrypt: a key player in free, automatic SSL/TLS... Read more >
Performance and Security: LRob's strategy for optimal WordPress hosting
High-performance, secure WordPress hosting, without compromise At LRob, our mission is clear: to offer fast, secure WordPress hosting, minimizing the impact of attacks while optimizing server performance. Unlike standard solutions that simply respond to threats, we go further by actively preventing unnecessary server loads. Because while some hosting providers fail to implement sufficient or any attack blocking measures, or offer no transparency at all, LRob can proudly display the measures in place and the results achieved. In this article, we explain our strategy, which is based on three layers of security... Read more >
Record attack: 2.8 million IPs compromised: What impact for WordPress hosts?
A new threat of unprecedented scale is rocking the web: 2.8 million compromised network devices are currently being exploited to flood the Internet with malicious requests. At LRob, as a web hosting provider, we've seen a dramatic increase in attacks in recent days. We'll explain how we're effectively blocking them. These attacks are not just a nuisance: they can seriously impact the performance and security of your websites. How does the attack work? What impact does it have on your websites? How can you protect yourself? Here are the answers. Details of the cyber attack Discovery of the... Read more >
How to choose the fastest web host in 2025?
Is your web hosting too slow? Your web hosting provider's technological and hardware choices have a direct impact on your website's performance. Yet most hosting providers are vague about their infrastructure and actual performance. As a customer, you often don't know what you're paying for. At LRob, we're trying to do better. Much better. We take a transparent approach: we measure, compare and optimize every parameter, every hardware choice, to guarantee load speeds up to 10x faster than the competition. That's how we try to offer you the best web hosting for WordPress... Read more >
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[Video] LRob Interview "Security and Defense Professions
As a secure WordPress host, I had the pleasure of appearing on the MERCI BOBBY channel's «Taffer Comment?» show. The concept of the show 📌 To shed light on professional career paths in the security professions.📌 And for my part, to talk cybersecurity in a self-taught way. But also:An enriching and accessible video, directed by Olecio & THANK YOU BOBBY!Thanks to them for hosting and to Naïm Aouaichia for putting me in touch. I hope I've represented our discipline well while remaining clear for the general public. You tell me! The gist of LRob's speech «All services in... Read more >
PHP 8.4 support at your hosting provider - Available now
Your favorite web hosting provider is pleased to announce that PHP 8.4 is now fully supported on your specialized WordPress web hosting. This version brings significant improvements to the language, boosting performance, flexibility and code readability. Here's an overview of the most important new features. Your LRob host supports PHP 8.4 Native support for Plesk arrived on January 21. It will have taken Plesk 2 months, which is longer than usual. It was added to LRob servers on January 24, making it available for your hosting needs. PHP 8.4... Read more >
Translate a WordPress site - In one go with TranslatePress
Translating a WordPress site can be a challenge, especially when the automatic translation of a page requires it to be visited beforehand. As a WordPress hosting specialist and WordPress webmaster, I regularly work on multilingual sites with automatic translation. For this, I generally use TranslatePress Developer edition, with the DeepL API to perform this translation. The problem? Translating everything at once isn't natively possible. So we had to find a solution. Discover the solution and save hours! Problem: Translating the whole site at once is not possible. With TranslatePress, translating the content of your... Read more >
A critical flaw in W3 Total Cache
The WordFence teams (a WordPress security plugin) have brought to our attention a security flaw CVE-2024-12365, of criticality CVSS 8.5/10. What is W3 Total Cache? W3 Total Cache is a serious, high-performance and highly customizable caching plugin that we highly recommend. Used by more than a million sites, it stands out for its reliability, wide range of settings and Redis cache support. What is the risk of this flaw? The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress presents an unauthorized data access vulnerability due to the lack of capacity checking in the... Read more >
Business review 2024
Although I started my business in 2010, it was in September 2023 that I decided to devote myself fully to my web business, focused on hosting, maintenance and specialized creation explicitly on WordPress. So 2024 is the first full year for the «LRob» you know today. So, what about the results? Spoiler: the results are very encouraging! New features and improvements in 2024 2024 was a source of many service improvements at LRob. Here are just a few highlights: And much more. Hosting business 2024 WordPress hosting business takes off! You've been... Read more >