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Bernard Zijlstra

Hosting, Security and Compliance at Level Level

@bernardzijlstra EU - NL joined Mar 2014

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    Bio

    WordPress Hosting & Security at level-level.com (co-owner). Accessibility advocate (A11Y) with the A11Y Collective (https://www.a11y-collective.com/). Works towards a completely Open Web using the WordPress and the GNU/Linux software ecosystem.

    WordPress Origin Story

    Around 2010 while working as a Linux engineer for a Dutch hosting company called Nines (bought by Sentia in 2015) we started hosting the first WordPress (version 3) websites. Some time later a small agency from Rotterdam called Level Level started hosting a business blog with Nines, the blog was z24.nl which was rebranded later to businessinsider.nl. The blog went live and died within minutes because the hosting set-up could not cope with the high amount of live traffic. The main problem was an NFS share between multiple servers which was used to house the entire WordPress directory instead of just the uploads directory. I was called in with a colleague to fix it. In 2014 as a freelancer I specialised in managed hosting off WordPress and Level Level was one of my customers and in 2017 I became the co-owner of Level Level.

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    Contributions

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    June 2022
    Jun 27 Mon · 10:27
    GitHub med
    Created issue #105 in the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
    Rename the Master branch to Main
    Jun 27 Mon · 09:57
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #104 on WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Merge pull request #2 from WordPress/master
    Jun 27 Mon · 09:57
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #104 to WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    Merge pull request #2 from WordPress/master
    Jun 24 Fri · 21:53
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Google Drive is Flagging Plugins as ‘Viruses’, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
    Drive is used a lot to distribute malware. It is no surprise Google is trying…
    Jun 07 Tue · 07:50
    GitHub high
    Pull request #94 merged into WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    added basic info about the Markdown textformat
    Jun 06 Mon · 21:45
    GitHub med
    Created issue #97 in the WordPress/hosting-handbook repository:
    Add a responsible disclosure page
    Jun 02 Thu · 13:19
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #94 to WordPress/hosting-handbook:
    added basic info about the Markdown textformat
    March 2021
    Mar 18 Thu · 10:55
    Forums med
    Created a topic, FIDO U2F option for 2FA, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Wordfence people, Realy like the plugin, thanks fo…
    May 2018
    May 16 Wed · 20:47
    Forums med
    Created a topic, oEmbed and third party analytics cookies, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    As I understand the GDPR/ePrivacy law, media loaded on…
    April 2014
    Apr 28 Mon · 19:04
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands 2014