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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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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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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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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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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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A wildcard DNS record (*): what it does, and when it gets in the way

The short answer: a wildcard record, written with an asterisk (*), answers for any subdomain that has no record of its own. With it, anything.your-domain.com opens the same place. It…

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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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How a website works: from the address you type to the page on your screen

The short answer: when you type an address, the browser asks DNS which server belongs to that name, connects to that server, and the server sends back the page. In…

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Locking down the WordPress file editor and a few wp-config settings worth changing

The short answer: WordPress has, in the dashboard, a file editor that lets you change the code of the theme and plugins. One typo there takes the site down, and…

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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…