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HSTS explained: forcing https for good, and the trap of switching it on too early

The short answer: HSTS is an instruction your site gives the browser: “from now on, talk to me only over https, for X amount of time, do not even try…

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HTTP or HTTPS: what changes for visitors, forms and the services that call your site

Short answer: use HTTPS, always. Here every domain gets a free SSL certificate automatically, so the real question is almost never “do I have to buy one?” but “is my…

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Certbot renewal failed or the certificate expired: how to find out why

If the browser warns that a certificate has expired on a VPS using certbot, the automatic renewal either did not run or ran and failed. Open the terminal and do,…

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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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Checking your site’s HTTPS setup: certificate, chain, expiry and protocols

The short answer: the browser’s padlock does not tell the whole story. A site can show the padlock on your computer and fail on other devices because of an incomplete…

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Running a VPS without a control panel: what the panel did and how you do it by hand

This article is for people with a VPS or a dedicated server with root access who work from the command line. A panel is just an interface for a dozen…

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ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS: when the site redirects in a circle

The short answer: the browser says “the page redirected you too many times” when two rules contradict each other and send you back and forth, endlessly. It is almost always…

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Which hosting plan for a non-profit that takes online donations

The short answer: an association’s or NGO’s site is light, and one of the first shared plans is enough. What needs care is the online donation: donors have to trust…

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A 30-minute monthly routine to keep your website healthy

The short answer: a site does not break all at once: it accumulates small faults (a plugin not updated, a form that stopped arriving, a backup that was never tested).…

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The Gmail app or the Outlook app for your domain mailbox: phone and computer compared

The short answer: both apps read a mailbox on your own domain over IMAP, with the same settings: server mail.yourdomain, IMAP on port 993 with SSL/TLS, SMTP on 465 with…