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Your domain contact details: why they must be real, and how to keep them up to date

The short answer: when you register a domain, your details (name, e-mail, phone, address) are tied to it as the holder. Registries require them to be true and current: it…

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Reading a whole DNS zone line by line: names, trailing dots, TTL and the @ sign

The short answer: a DNS zone is a plain-text list of records, one per line, in a standard format (the “zone file” from RFC 1035, the one BIND uses). Many…

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Which hosting plan for a bakery or catering business: orders, menu and events

The short answer: a bakery or caterer sells what you can see and what is ordered in advance. The site is light, with many food photos, and the entry plan…

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Checking DNS from the command line: dig and nslookup, and how to read the answer

The short answer: dig and nslookup ask the DNS directly what it answers for a name. They are the quickest way to know whether a change has arrived, where your…

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Which hosting plan for a hotel, lodge or tour operator: photos, bookings and several languages

The short answer: a tourism site lives on big photographs and several languages, and most visits come from abroad, from phones and from slow connections. To start, an entry shared…

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Registrar lock: what it protects, when to unlock it and when to leave it on

The short answer: the registrar lock is a padlock on the domain that stops it being transferred to another provider unless you authorise it. It should be on almost always,…

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Which hosting plan for a clinic or health professional: bookings, privacy and what not to publish

The short answer: a clinic’s presentation site, with services, team, opening hours and a contact form, is light, and one of the first shared plans is enough. What needs care…

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Remote Desktop will not connect: the usual errors and what each one means

The short answer: the error message almost always says what is missing. There are two groups: it does not reach the server (network, address, firewall, stopped server) or it reaches…

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CNAME on the bare domain: why it is not allowed and what to use instead

The short answer: a CNAME says “this name is really that other name”. The DNS standard forbids a CNAME on a name that has any other record. The bare domain…

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Which hosting plan for a mobile app: the website, the privacy page and the server

The short answer: a mobile app almost always needs a website (that presents it and that app stores require, with a privacy page and a support contact) and, sometimes, a…