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Short .ao names: under three characters are not sold, and three has a special price

The short answer: in the .ao extensions we sell, a name with fewer than three characters cannot be registered. A name with exactly three has a special price and cannot…

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Seven questions to ask before you buy hosting, and what a good answer sounds like

The short answer: price is the question everybody asks; the ones that matter are the others. These seven show you, in ten minutes, who you will be dealing with. Ask…

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Reading a whole DNS zone line by line: names, trailing dots, TTL and the @ sign

The short answer: a DNS zone is a plain-text list of records, one per line, in a standard format (the “zone file” from RFC 1035, the one BIND uses). Many…

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Other e-mail apps on your phone: Gmail, Samsung Email and Outlook, with the same settings

The short answer: your domain’s e-mail works in any app that accepts an IMAP account. The settings are always the same; what changes is where each app asks for them.…

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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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Redirecting old pages in WordPress: a plugin or .htaccess

The short answer: when a page changes address or disappears, whoever saved it (and Google) lands on a 404. The remedy is a 301 redirect, which says “it moved here”.…

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A shared address for a team: one shared mailbox, a forwarder or a mailing list

The short answer: for an address like sales@ or support@ that several people look after, there are three routes. A shared mailbox (a real e-mail account everyone opens with the…

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Running a mail server on your VPS with Postfix: why it is hard, and the alternative

Installing Postfix takes minutes; getting the mail to reach other people’s inboxes is the real work. A new mail server, on an IP with no history, is treated with suspicion…

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Which hosting plan for an event, wedding or campaign site that lives for a few weeks

The short answer: an event, wedding or campaign site has a short life and, near the date, a peak of visits. It is light, and an entry shared plan is…

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Nextcloud on a VPS: your own file storage, with Docker Compose

The short answer: Nextcloud is an open-source program that gives you your own “Drive”: files, calendar and contacts, on a server of yours. It installs on a VPS with Docker…