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SQL injection and XSS in plain words: what to ask your developer

The short answer: SQL injection and XSS are two of the oldest attacks on websites, and they still work because they come from the same oversight: trusting what the visitor…

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Repairing the Outlook data file: damaged PST or OST, SCANPST and a new OST

The short answer: Outlook keeps mail in a data file on the computer: an OST (a copy of what is on the server, for recent IMAP and Exchange accounts) or…

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Stopping spam comments in WordPress

If your blog has comments open, sooner or later it fills up with offers for watches, links to doubtful sites and sentences that make no sense. Whoever wrote them is…

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The 3-2-1 backup rule for a website: which three copies, and where to keep them

The 3-2-1 rule says: 3 copies of what matters, on 2 different kinds of storage, with 1 copy away from where the rest lives. The point is not the numbers:…

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Why a backup is huge or fails, and how to make it smaller

A huge backup is almost never “the site”: it is what has piled up around the site. Cache folders, old copies forgotten in the account, error files that kept growing,…

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ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: which AI tool suits which task

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok. New versions turn up month after month and the question that reaches us is always the same: which one is best? The honest answer is…

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Which ports are open, and why your integration hangs without an error

«The integration will not connect and throws no error.» When a site tries to talk to an outside service and the connection simply hangs, the cause is nearly always a…

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Creating a subdomain on Cloudflare

With the domain on Cloudflare, creating a subdomain becomes a job of two halves, in two different panels. Doing only one of them is the cause of practically every "I…

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The WordPress tool in cPanel: what it does for you

cPanel carries a tool built for WordPress, in the Domains section. It knows about the installations on your account and does, from the panel, a set of things you would…

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Switching the CDN off, and confirming it really is off

There are three ways to switch a CDN off, and they are very different from one another. Picking the wrong one gets you one of two results: either nothing is…