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Hotlink protection: stop others using your bandwidth

Hotlinking is when another website displays an image of yours straight from your server, instead of keeping a copy on theirs. To their visitor it looks like an ordinary image;…

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Hosting an AI agent: why it needs a VPS and not shared hosting

An AI agent that runs on your own server (such as OpenClaw) is a program that has to stay running all the time, have root access and be reachable on…

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The 3-2-1 backup rule for a website: which three copies, and where to keep them

The 3-2-1 rule says: 3 copies of what matters, on 2 different kinds of storage, with 1 copy away from where the rest lives. The point is not the numbers:…

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Connecting to MySQL from PHP: mysqli and PDO, with a working example

PHP has two ways of talking to the database: mysqli (MySQL and MariaDB only) and PDO (which also serves PostgreSQL and others). For a new project PDO is the safe…

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CPU, RAM and disk I/O in plain words: what each one limits on your site

On shared hosting your account lives in a compartment with ceilings of its own for processor (CPU), memory (RAM) and disk reads and writes (I/O). They exist so a noisy…

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What a backup does not include: DNS, cron jobs, certificates and outside services

A copy only holds what lives inside the account, and only what that kind of copy picks up. Many people find out the rest on the day they need to…

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Running a PHP script from a cron job

In Cron Jobs, in cPanel, the command is the full path of PHP, a space, and the full path of the script: /opt/alt/php82/usr/bin/php /home/YOURACCOUNT/scripts/task.php. Two things ruin most jobs that…

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How to restore only the database from a backup

In cPanel, open JetBackup 5 (Files section), pick the day, and restore only the one database, leaving the files and the e-mail alone. A restore replaces the current database with…

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Moving a database to another account or server

Export the database from the source, create an empty database and user at the destination, import the file and point the application at the new connection details. What always changes…

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SQLite or MySQL: which one fits a small project

The short answer: SQLite fits a small application with few users writing at the same time and nobody from outside needing the database. MySQL (here, MariaDB) fits anything that is…