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Plesk or HestiaCP on your VPS: the differences that matter

The short answer: both give you sites, e-mail and DNS on the same server. Choose Plesk if you will have customers or resellers, want WP Toolkit and the Node.js and…

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Slow queries: how to find them and the fixes that work most often

A site that is slow because of the database almost always has one or two queries doing all the work, and the most frequent fix is a missing index. The…

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Internal links: how to link your own pages so nothing stays hidden

Internal links are the links from one page of your site to another page of your site. They do two jobs: they take the visitor to the next step and…

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Automatic daily backup or your own copy: which one saves you, and when

Short answer: they are not alternatives, they cover different problems. The automatic daily backup handles most everyday disasters (a deleted file, a plugin that broke the site). Your own copy,…

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Creating a database user and giving it the right privileges

A database without a user is no use to anyone, and a user with too many privileges is an open door. In cPanel you do it in MySQL Databases: create…

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A domain or subdomain opens the wrong site: the document root and how to check it

The short answer: each domain and subdomain on a hosting account points to a folder (the “document root”) and shows what is in that folder. If one shows another’s site,…

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A table marked as crashed: what it means and how to repair it

The message Table is marked as crashed and should be repaired means a table, almost always of the MyISAM type, has an inconsistent file, usually because something stopped halfway through…

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Image optimisation and WebP

Images are often the heaviest part of a page. WebP is an image format made by Google that usually keeps the same look in fewer bytes than JPEG or PNG,…

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PostgreSQL or MySQL: which one for your project

If you are installing WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop or another ready-made application, use MySQL (here, MariaDB): that is what those applications were written for. If you are writing your own application,…

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Lazy loading images and videos: what to defer and what never to

Lazy loading makes the browser request an image or a video only when it is about to appear on screen, instead of downloading them all at the door. It saves…