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A domain or subdomain opens the wrong site: the document root and how to check it

The short answer: each domain and subdomain on a hosting account points to a folder (the “document root”) and shows what is in that folder. If one shows another’s site,…

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WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS): what it is and whether to switch

The short answer: HPOS is a newer way for WooCommerce to store orders, in tables of their own rather than mixed with the pages and posts of WordPress. In recent…

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SQL injection and XSS in plain words: what to ask your developer

The short answer: SQL injection and XSS are two of the oldest attacks on websites, and they still work because they come from the same oversight: trusting what the visitor…

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www or no www: which address to choose for your site

Short answer: either will do, and the choice is mostly a matter of taste. What is not a matter of taste is picking just one, making the other redirect to…

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The parts of a web address: scheme, domain, port, path, query and fragment

The short answer: a web address (a URL) is read from left to right, in pieces, and each piece is handled by a different part of the chain. Take this…

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Error 404 on a page that should exist: the causes, in order

The short answer: error 404 means “the server is working but cannot find what was asked for”. For a page you know exists, the causes are almost always a file…

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Ten mistakes first-time website owners make, and how to avoid each one

The short answer: nearly all the problems of a site’s first months repeat from person to person. Most are not technical: they are not having the account and domain in…

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Colours, fonts and a logo for a small business website: simple rules that avoid a messy look

The short answer: a site that looks careful does not need a designer: it needs few choices, repeated consistently. Two main colours and one accent, two typefaces at most, plenty…

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CyberPanel, aaPanel and CloudPanel on a VPS: free panels and the questions to ask first

This article is for people with a VPS or a dedicated server with root access. On shared plans the panel is cPanel, and you neither choose nor install another one.…

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A 30-minute monthly routine to keep your website healthy

The short answer: a site does not break all at once: it accumulates small faults (a plugin not updated, a form that stopped arriving, a backup that was never tested).…