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Preparing for a traffic spike: a campaign, a launch or a live event

A traffic spike is not solved on the day: it is solved in the days before. What brings a site down in a campaign is not the total number of…

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LiteSpeed or Apache: what the web server changes for your site, and what it does not

The web server is the program that receives the browser’s request and hands back the page. Apache and LiteSpeed do the same job and read the same rules (the .htaccess…

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Browser caching with .htaccess

Browser caching is the kind that lives on the visitor’s own computer: if the logo, the CSS and the JavaScript arrive with an instruction saying “keep this for a while”,…

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How to install Apache on a VPS and set up a virtual host

On Ubuntu or Debian you install Apache with sudo apt install apache2, write a site file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ holding a VirtualHost that points at your folder, enable it with sudo…

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The parts of a web address: scheme, domain, port, path, query and fragment

The short answer: a web address (a URL) is read from left to right, in pieces, and each piece is handled by a different part of the chain. Take this…

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Sending e-mail by SMTP or through an e-mail API: which suits your application

For a few messages (a contact form, the confirmations of a small shop), SMTP with a mailbox on your domain is enough. For large volumes, newsletters, or when you need…

Interweb Mozambique www.meu.interweb.co.mz › Meu Interweb › Knowledge Base Knowledge baseDatabases

Moving a database to another account or server

Export the database from the source, create an empty database and user at the destination, import the file and point the application at the new connection details. What always changes…

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The scan says clean but the site still redirects: where an infection hides

The short answer: a scan only sees what it knows how to recognise. A modern infection hides outside the files you look at first (in the database, in an .htaccess,…

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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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Error 500 Internal Server Error: finding the cause, step by step

The short answer: error 500 means “something went wrong on the server and I cannot say what”. The cause is almost always in the error log, and almost always one…