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Which hosting plan for a blog: start small and know when to grow

For a new blog, the entry plan is enough. A blog is one of the lightest things you can put online: text, a few images and a small database. What…

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What to back up before you update WordPress, plugins or PHP

Before an update, save three things: the database, the wp-content folder (plus wp-config.php and .htaccess) and a note of the versions you have now. It takes five minutes and is…

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Keeping your own copy of your e-mail: how to back up a mailbox

Your messages are in the account and are part of the daily copy we make, but a mailbox nobody has copied out is a mailbox with a single copy. To…

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Where console.log and print output goes, and how to read your app logs

On your computer, console.log (Node.js) and print (Python) show up on screen. A server has no screen, and the question is where they went. The short answer: on shared hosting,…

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WordPress stuck in maintenance mode

The site shows one dry sentence saying it is “briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance”, and it will not go away. This happens when an update is interrupted halfway: WordPress put…

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Backing up or restoring only some tables of a database

It is not always worth copying the whole database. Before updating a plugin, deleting old orders or fiddling with a table, a copy of just the tables you are about…

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Testing a migrated site before you change the DNS (the hosts file)

To see the new site before the DNS changes, add one line to your computer’s hosts file saying “this domain lives at this IP address”. Only your computer goes to…

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Automatic daily backup or your own copy: which one saves you, and when

Short answer: they are not alternatives, they cover different problems. The automatic daily backup handles most everyday disasters (a deleted file, a plugin that broke the site). Your own copy,…

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The scan says clean but the site still redirects: where an infection hides

The short answer: a scan only sees what it knows how to recognise. A modern infection hides outside the files you look at first (in the database, in an .htaccess,…

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Installing PostgreSQL on a VPS

On a VPS running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, as root, you install PostgreSQL with apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib. The service starts by itself and, by default, listens only on the server…