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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 bakery or catering business: orders, menu and events

The short answer: a bakery or caterer sells what you can see and what is ordered in advance. The site is light, with many food photos, and the entry plan…

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Website statistics without Google: Matomo on your hosting, or Plausible on a VPS

The short answer: to know how many people visit your site you do not have to hand the data to Google. Matomo does the same job and runs on your…

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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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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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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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Checking DNS from the command line: dig and nslookup, and how to read the answer

The short answer: dig and nslookup ask the DNS directly what it answers for a name. They are the quickest way to know whether a change has arrived, where your…

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Registrar lock: what it protects, when to unlock it and when to leave it on

The short answer: the registrar lock is a padlock on the domain that stops it being transferred to another provider unless you authorise it. It should be on almost always,…

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Publishing a React or Vue site: the build folder, and the refresh that gives a 404

A site built with React or Vue (with Vite or with the older tools) does not run on the server: you build it on your computer into a folder of…

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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”.…