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HTTP or HTTPS: what changes for visitors, forms and the services that call your site

Short answer: use HTTPS, always. Here every domain gets a free SSL certificate automatically, so the real question is almost never “do I have to buy one?” but “is my…

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Categories and tags in WordPress: how to use each without making a mess

The short answer: categories are the blog’s big sections (few, and each post fits in one); tags are loose keywords, more specific (many, and each post has a few). Using…

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Moving to cPanel from Plesk, DirectAdmin or another panel: what moves and what you rebuild

A control panel is just the shop window for five things that exist on any server: files, databases, mailboxes, DNS records and scheduled tasks. So changing panels means copying those…

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Subdomain or folder: where to put a blog, a shop or a test site

Short answer: what should strengthen the main site, such as a blog of articles, goes better in a folder (asuaempresa.co.mz/blog). What is technically separate, such as a test site, an…

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SMTP relay through a smarthost: sending mail from a VPS or from an application

This article is for people with a VPS or server with root access, or an application that sends e-mail. The short answer: instead of your server delivering mail straight to…

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Running a VPS without a control panel: what the panel did and how you do it by hand

This article is for people with a VPS or a dedicated server with root access who work from the command line. A panel is just an interface for a dozen…

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Securing Evolution API: key, HTTPS and the open port

An exposed Evolution API is an open door to your WhatsApp number: whoever reaches it and holds the key sends messages in your name. You protect it with four things:…

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HSTS explained: forcing https for good, and the trap of switching it on too early

The short answer: HSTS is an instruction your site gives the browser: “from now on, talk to me only over https, for X amount of time, do not even try…

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HTTPS for a container: a certificate and a domain

For an application running in a container to show the padlock, you need a domain pointing at the VPS and a certificate. The most common route is nginx in front…

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Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS and www to the bare domain in nginx or Apache

On a VPS you choose one canonical address (for example https://yourdomain.tld) and send everything else there with a 301 redirect: HTTP to HTTPS, and www to the bare name (or…