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Good hosting is mostly invisible: pages load quickly, email arrives, backups are there when you need them and nobody has to think about the server. This category covers how to get the most from a hosting account, and explains the parts that cause problems when they are misunderstood.
Articles include speeding up a website, moving a site between hosts with minimal downtime, email deliverability with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, reading email headers when a message goes missing, WordPress scheduled tasks, XML sitemaps and hotlink protection.
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cPanel Resource Usage: What Your Account Limits Actually Mean
What the CPU, memory, entry process and disk limits on a hosting account measure, what a fault is, and how to find out which limit your site is hitting.
WordPress and PHP Versions: Upgrading Without Taking the Site Down
Changing PHP version on a neglected WordPress site is one of the reliable ways to take it offline. What breaks, why, and the order that avoids it.
Why Magento Needs More Than Ordinary Shared Hosting
Magento is not a heavier WordPress. The supporting services it expects, the background work it does constantly, and what that means when choosing hosting.
Why an Older PHP Version Is Not Automatically a Security Risk
Being told your site runs an end of life PHP version sounds alarming. What actually determines whether it is a risk, and how to upgrade without breaking things.
The Cloudflare Free Plan: What You Actually Get
What the Cloudflare free plan genuinely provides, where its limits bite in practice, and the settings that most often break a site when switched on carelessly.
IPv6 Is Now Standard on Every Site We Host
Every site we host now answers on IPv6 as well as IPv4. What that means, why it matters more each year, and why there is nothing for you to do.
Is Your Website Already Using Quantum-Resistant Encryption?
Encrypted traffic captured today can be decrypted years from now, which is why post-quantum encryption matters already. What it actually is, why almost nobody had to do anything to get it, and a twenty-second check you can run on your own site.
Converting MyISAM Tables to InnoDB: Why and How
MySQL moved away from MyISAM in 2010, but plenty of WordPress, WooCommerce and older store databases are still quietly running on it. Table level locking costs you exactly when you are busiest.
Hotlink Protection: Worth Enabling, Easy to Overdo
Other sites displaying your images from your server costs you bandwidth and gives away your product photography. Blocking it is a checkbox, and breaking your own Google Images traffic is just as easy.
Website Security: The Measures That Actually Matter
Almost nobody attacking your site has chosen you. That is good news, because the defences that stop automated attacks are unglamorous, mostly free, and take an afternoon.
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