522 results for «domain» (page 46 of 53)
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Before you publish your website: a ten-point launch checklist
The short answer: the day the site goes live is the worst day to find out the form does not work. These ten checks take an hour and catch almost…
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Which hosting plan for a web designer or agency with several client sites
The short answer: someone who builds sites for clients has to choose between one hosting per client (each with their own account and contract) and a hosting of your own…
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Which hosting plan for a government office, municipality or public service
The short answer: a public service’s site exists so citizens can find the right information, forms and contacts. It is a content site, without great server demands: for a small…
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Forwarded e-mail lands in spam or bounces: why SPF breaks and what to do
The short answer: when your address forwards messages to another (for example, to Gmail), the destination server sees the message arriving from your server, which is not on the list…
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One mailbox per person or one shared mailbox: what works for a small team
The short answer: anyone who writes on behalf of the company should have their own mailbox. The public addresses (general enquiries, sales) can be a shared mailbox, if replies must…
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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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Which hosting plan for a student, thesis or hobby project
The short answer: to learn, experiment or hand in work with a website, you do not need anything big. The entry plan will do, and it lets you have an…
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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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Ten mistakes first-time website owners make, and how to avoid each one
The short answer: nearly all the problems of a site’s first months repeat from person to person. Most are not technical: they are not having the account and domain in…
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How to install nginx on Ubuntu and serve your website from a folder
On an Ubuntu VPS, you install nginx with sudo apt install nginx, create a site file in /etc/nginx/sites-available/ that points at your folder, enable it with a link in sites-enabled,…





