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Switching a PHP extension on or off in Select PHP Version

In cPanel, open Select PHP Version (the Software section), pick the PHP version, open the Extensions tab and tick or untick the extension’s box. That is all, and it takes…

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Handing a website over to a client or another company: what to move and what to change

Handing over a site is four different things, and each has its own owner: the domain, the hosting account, the content, and the third-party accounts (analytics, e-mail, payments). The usual…

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Connecting to MySQL from PHP: mysqli and PDO, with a working example

PHP has two ways of talking to the database: mysqli (MySQL and MariaDB only) and PDO (which also serves PostgreSQL and others). For a new project PDO is the safe…

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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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Importing a database with phpMyAdmin, and the size limit that stops you

Create an empty database, open it in phpMyAdmin, go to the Import tab, choose the file (.sql, .zip or .gz) and click Import (or Go). If the file is bigger…

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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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Which hosting plan for a school or training centre: site, e-mail and online lessons

It depends on what the school will put online. A site with information, enrolment and e-mail for the teachers fits an ordinary shared plan. A learning platform, where students log…

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Testing a migrated site before you change the DNS (the hosts file)

To see the new site before the DNS changes, add one line to your computer’s hosts file saying “this domain lives at this IP address”. Only your computer goes to…

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Hosting an AI agent: why it needs a VPS and not shared hosting

An AI agent that runs on your own server (such as OpenClaw) is a program that has to stay running all the time, have root access and be reachable on…

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Sending e-mail from PHP: mail() or SMTP

Use SMTP with a real mailbox on your domain. The mail() function is fine for a quick test, but it returns “sent” only because the local mail program accepted the…