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Hiding WordPress usernames: author pages, the REST API and login messages

The short answer: WordPress shows, without meaning to, the usernames of those who write on the site: on author pages, in the REST API and even in the login error…

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How an e-mail travels: SMTP to the MX server, then IMAP or POP to the reader

The short answer: an e-mail travels in three legs, and each leg uses a different protocol. First, your program hands the message to your server over SMTP, with a username…

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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…

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Email Routing in cPanel: local, remote or automatic, and the mail that vanishes

The short answer: cPanel decides, for each domain, where the mailboxes are: here (local) or on another service (remote). If your domain’s e-mail is on another service (Google Workspace, Microsoft…

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TXT records in practice: long values, quotes and several records on one name

The short answer: a TXT record holds text, and it is where SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the domain verifications for Google, Microsoft and many other services live. It looks like…

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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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Which hosting plan for a start-up landing page and waiting list

The short answer: a presentation page with a sign-up form is very light: the entry plan is enough. It has one peculiarity: if the launch goes well, the visits arrive…

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Purging a CDN cache: one file, a folder or everything, and when not to purge

The short answer: purging tells the CDN to throw away the copies it holds, so the next request goes to the origin for the current version. It is for when…

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Replacing old addresses in a WordPress database without breaking it

The short answer: when you change the site’s address (a new domain, or from http to https), WordPress keeps the old address in thousands of places in the database: in…

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A support request that gets a fast answer: what to include, by type of problem

The short answer: the fastest answer is the one that does not need a question back. A request with the site address, what you expected, what happened and when usually…