483 results for «domain» (page 43 of 49)
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Which hosting plan for a law firm, accountant or consultant: credibility, e-mail and confidentiality
The short answer: a practice sells trust, and the site is light: one of the first shared plans is enough. What makes the difference is e-mail on your own domain,…
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A new record that still does not exist for some people: negative caching and the SOA
The short answer: resolvers do not only store answers that exist. When they ask for a name that does not exist (NXDOMAIN), or for a record type the name does…
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Replacing old addresses in a WordPress database without breaking it
The short answer: when you change the site’s address (a new domain, or from http to https), WordPress keeps the old address in thousands of places in the database: in…
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.htaccess for PHP projects: friendly URLs and redirects
The .htaccess file is where you tell the server how to treat addresses: send every request to a single index.php file (friendly URLs), redirect one address to another, and hide…
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Which hosting plan for a musician or band: music, videos and events
The short answer: a musician’s site is a shop window: biography, gig dates, links to listen and a contact to book. It is light, and the entry plan will do.…
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SMTP relay through a smarthost: sending mail from a VPS or from an application
This article is for people with a VPS or server with root access, or an application that sends e-mail. The short answer: instead of your server delivering mail straight to…
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Which hosting plan for a government office, municipality or public service
The short answer: a public service’s site exists so citizens can find the right information, forms and contacts. It is a content site, without great server demands: for a small…
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TXT records in practice: long values, quotes and several records on one name
The short answer: a TXT record holds text, and it is where SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the domain verifications for Google, Microsoft and many other services live. It looks like…
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Photos for your website: where to get them legally and what to credit
The short answer: an image you find on the internet is not free just because it is there. For your site, use photos that are yours, or from an image…
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Which hosting plan for a start-up landing page and waiting list
The short answer: a presentation page with a sign-up form is very light: the entry plan is enough. It has one peculiarity: if the launch goes well, the visits arrive…





