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PostgreSQL or MySQL: which one for your project

If you are installing WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop or another ready-made application, use MySQL (here, MariaDB): that is what those applications were written for. If you are writing your own application,…

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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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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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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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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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Importing a database with phpMyAdmin, and the size limit that stops you

Create an empty database, open it in phpMyAdmin, go to the Import tab, choose the file (.sql, .zip or .gz) and click Import (or Go). If the file is bigger…

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Which PHP version should your site use

Use the newest version your application says it supports, and never one that PHP itself no longer maintains. Here the version is chosen per folder in Select PHP Version, from…

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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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Security headers explained: what they do and how to add them in .htaccess

The short answer: security headers are small instructions your site sends the browser with every page (“do not let anyone put me inside another site”, “do not guess the type…

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Leaving a hosting provider: how to take everything with you before you cancel

Before you cancel, take five things: the site files, the databases, the e-mail, the list of DNS records, and the list of settings that are not in the files (PHP…