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WooCommerce, PrestaShop, OpenCart or Magento: what each one asks of the server

Four shop platforms, four different appetites. The question “which is best” has no answer; the question “which fits my hosting” does. Here is what each one asks of the server,…

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LiteSpeed or Apache: what the web server changes for your site, and what it does not

The web server is the program that receives the browser’s request and hands back the page. Apache and LiteSpeed do the same job and read the same rules (the .htaccess…

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After a hack, which backup do you restore? Choosing a clean copy

The short answer: restore the last copy from before the infection, not the most recent one. If you restore yesterday’s copy and the site had been infected for a week,…

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cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk: what actually differs between control panels

They do the same job with different menus. All three are hosting control panels: a web page where you create e-mail accounts, databases, domains, DNS records and backups without typing…

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How to install Apache on a VPS and set up a virtual host

On Ubuntu or Debian you install Apache with sudo apt install apache2, write a site file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ holding a VirtualHost that points at your folder, enable it with sudo…

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How a website works: from the address you type to the page on your screen

The short answer: when you type an address, the browser asks DNS which server belongs to that name, connects to that server, and the server sends back the page. In…

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Will changing hosting hurt your Google ranking?

No, as long as the site keeps answering, with the same addresses and the same content. Search engines do not rank a site by the company that hosts it; they…

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Nginx or Apache on a VPS: which web server to choose

For an ordinary site either one will do, and the deciding factor is what your application expects and what you already know how to run. Apache is the natural choice…

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A website people can install like an app: PWA basics

The short answer: a PWA is a normal website with two things added: a small file that describes it (the manifest) and, if you want it to work offline, a…

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Accents turning into strange symbols on your site: UTF-8 from file to database

The short answer: “ação” shows as “aÃ§Ã£o”, or as “a��o”, or as “a?o”. It is always the same problem: the text was written in one alphabet (encoding) and read in…