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Off-site backups: sending a copy to cloud storage, an S3 bucket or Google Drive

An off-site copy is the one that survives losing the account. There are five ways to get one out: a WordPress backup plugin with a cloud destination, a backup program…

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Fake orders and spam sign-ups in WooCommerce: how to stop them

One day the shop wakes up with dozens of pending orders from odd names, small amounts and made-up e-mails. Or with hundreds of new accounts nobody created. It is not…

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A website form that is safe and spam-free: honeypot, captcha and validation

The short answer: a form is a door that anyone, and any robot, can try. To keep it spam-free, add a trap field (a honeypot) and, if needed, a captcha.…

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What a good page URL looks like, and how to change a bad one safely

A good page address is short, in lower case, with hyphens between words, and says what the page is: yourcompany.com/colour-guide rather than yourcompany.com/?p=1873. It helps readers, helps sharing and gives…

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Checkout errors in WooCommerce: where to look

The customer reaches checkout and the shop jams: the button does nothing, an error appears, the payment method is missing, or the payment goes through and the order never shows.…

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Entry processes: why a site with few visitors can still hit the limit

Entry processes measure how many things are entering your account at the same time: each request to a PHP page, each scheduled task, each SSH session. They do not measure…

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How to fix CLS: why the page jumps while it loads

CLS measures how much the content moves while the page loads: you go to tap a button and at the last instant an ad appears above it and the button…

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An abandoned plugin or an old PHP version: how to spot the risks on your site

The short answer: most hacked sites were not caught by a clever attack, but by an old part with a known flaw: a plugin its author stopped updating, a forgotten…

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WooCommerce, PrestaShop, OpenCart or Magento: what each one asks of the server

Four shop platforms, four different appetites. The question “which is best” has no answer; the question “which fits my hosting” does. Here is what each one asks of the server,…

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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…