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Which plugins an online shop really needs, and which to leave out

Search for “best WooCommerce plugins” and you get lists of thirty. A real shop needs few, and every extra plugin is one more thing to update, one more door for…

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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…

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Automatic daily backup or your own copy: which one saves you, and when

Short answer: they are not alternatives, they cover different problems. The automatic daily backup handles most everyday disasters (a deleted file, a plugin that broke the site). Your own copy,…

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Site with a CDN or without: how to test whether it made a difference

Short answer: a CDN is worth keeping only if the numbers for your site improve for your visitors. You do not decide it by hearsay: you measure before, switch it…

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Creating a database user and giving it the right privileges

A database without a user is no use to anyone, and a user with too many privileges is an open door. In cPanel you do it in MySQL Databases: create…

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A table marked as crashed: what it means and how to repair it

The message Table is marked as crashed and should be repaired means a table, almost always of the MyISAM type, has an inconsistent file, usually because something stopped halfway through…

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Posting to social networks automatically: what automation can and cannot do

You can make every new article on your site produce a social post, but the best way to do it is to automate the draft and not the publishing. The…

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Slow queries: how to find them and the fixes that work most often

A site that is slow because of the database almost always has one or two queries doing all the work, and the most frequent fix is a missing index. The…

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High TTFB: how to find where the server response time goes

TTFB (time to first byte) is the time from the request to the arrival of the first byte of the reply. If it is high, the page is slow to…