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Leaving a hosting provider: how to take everything with you before you cancel

Before you cancel, take five things: the site files, the databases, the e-mail, the list of DNS records, and the list of settings that are not in the files (PHP…

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Composer on shared hosting: installing it and running it

Composer is not installed as a command on the server, but you do not need it that way. You download a single file, composer.phar, into your account and run it…

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PHP sessions: where they live, and why users get logged out

A PHP session is a small file on the server, tied to the visitor by a cookie (the PHPSESSID). That is where the application keeps who is logged in, what…

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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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Testing a migrated site before you change the DNS (the hosts file)

To see the new site before the DNS changes, add one line to your computer’s hosts file saying “this domain lives at this IP address”. Only your computer goes to…

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Handing a website over to a client or another company: what to move and what to change

Handing over a site is four different things, and each has its own owner: the domain, the hosting account, the content, and the third-party accounts (analytics, e-mail, payments). The usual…

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Sending e-mail from PHP: mail() or SMTP

Use SMTP with a real mailbox on your domain. The mail() function is fine for a quick test, but it returns “sent” only because the local mail program accepted the…

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Automatic file transfers: scheduled SFTP and rsync from a script

To send or fetch files every night without opening FileZilla, use a cron job that runs the sftp command with an instruction file, or rsync over SSH. Both need key…

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Importing a database with phpMyAdmin, and the size limit that stops you

Create an empty database, open it in phpMyAdmin, go to the Import tab, choose the file (.sql, .zip or .gz) and click Import (or Go). If the file is bigger…

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Orange cloud or grey cloud at Cloudflare: which records to proxy and which to leave DNS only

The short answer: every record in Cloudflare’s DNS has a cloud beside it. Orange (Proxied) means visitors talk to Cloudflare and Cloudflare fetches what it needs from the server. Grey…