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Compression: confirming it is on, and measuring what you gained

Compression shrinks pages before they travel, and the browser unpacks them at the other end. Because HTML, CSS and JavaScript are text, and text repeats itself a great deal, what…

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Changing nameservers at a registrar that is not us: the map every panel follows

The domain was bought somewhere else and the hosting is with us. For the site to open here you have to go into their panel and change one of two…

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Hotmail or Outlook.com rejects or delays your e-mails: reading the message that comes back

The short answer: when Microsoft will not accept a message for a Hotmail or Outlook.com address, you get a notice back from our server. There are two kinds: a permanent…

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Installing Flarum for a forum

Flarum is a modern forum: a single page, fast, no reload on every click, and good on a phone without any effort. It is light, which makes it a sound…

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SRV records: what they are for, and how to create one

An A record says where a machine is. An SRV record says more: which machine, on which port, and in what order answers for a service on your domain. It…

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Files that must never be public: .git folders, .env, backups and database dumps

The short answer: everything in the site folder can be requested by anyone who guesses the file name. Git folders, files with passwords (.env), copies like wp-config.php.bak and database dumps…

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Finding out which database this WordPress uses

The account lists five databases and none of the names says anything. You need to know which one belongs to the site, because you are about to clean it, copy…

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What WHMCS is, and when you need it

Anyone starting to resell hosting discovers quickly that the work is not only technical. There are orders to take, invoices to raise, payments to check, renewals to warn about, accounts…

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Installing Joomla

Joomla installs from the Softaculous Apps Installer in cPanel, with no FTP and no touching the database. It takes under a minute. Here is the whole path, and what is…

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Deactivating or deleting a WordPress theme

WordPress has no button to deactivate a theme, and that is not an oversight: there is always exactly one active theme. Deactivating the one in use means activating another. What…