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I'm a NameHero team member, and an expert on WordPress and web hosting. I've been in this industry since 2008. I've also developed apps on Android and have written extensive tutorials on managing Linux servers. You can contact me on my website WP-Tweaks.com!
How many of us regularly append “reddit’ or “site:reddit.com” to a query on Google? I know I do it regularly, and I suspect you do too. And the reason is that Google search results are getting worse when it comes to queries that seek the opinions of real people. Most articles on the web are […]
Updated: January 4, 2024 If you’re like me, you don’t use your VPS server for incoming mail. Instead, I only want to receive e-mails from my VPS for server events. But the hassle of configuring an incoming mail server, dealing with spam, storage issues, and more are too much for me. Instead, I outsource all […]
There’s no point in carefully crafting your page title if Google doesn’t show it! Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to tell if Google will truncate your title. There are some shorthand guidelines. For example, we’re told that your title length must be below 66 characters. But this isn’t true. Sometimes Google cuts off titles that […]
For ordinary people, VPS security measures need to start with preventing the most frequent threats and only later focus on the rare ones. A true DDoS attack can be impossible to mitigate for a single server – merely processing each request uses some resources, and a full-fledged attack can quickly cripple a server. For example, […]
If you’re like me, you rely on e-mails from your VPS server to inform you about important activities like backups, updates, and expiring SSL certificates. If you properly set up notifications, you minimize your time logging into your VPS and checking stuff. So it’s extremely important to ensure that these e-mails reach you on time. […]
Like most of you, I’ve repeatedly considered changing the WordPress theme on my site because I sometimes get into the mood to “keep it modern”. I look at the latest frameworks like Genesis and GeneratePress and hear about how they adhere to the latest coding standards and whatnot. But then, when I consider the work […]
Updated: October 17, 2023 When your homepage appears in Google’s SERPs, under what name does Google display your site? For a while, Google used your <title> tag – the same as for every other page. But starting in October 2022, Google introduced a new system for explicitly specifying your site name when displaying homepage results. […]
Every website owner has to decide on the best way to optimize speed and accessibility. Sometimes those two goals push in opposing directions. Filtering your traffic based on the country is a legit tactic, despite some people trying to shame you into doing otherwise. If you think you can improve your website performance or reduce […]
These days, Cloudflare is putting a lot of effort into revamping its cache system. The other day, I wrote about the new Cloudflare Cache Reserve system that had infinite retention using R2 storage. Now Cloudflare is splitting its well-known “Page Rules” system into different streams, with one stream dedicated solely to caching. Here’s how it […]
Cloudflare’s at it again, with a new feature that lets you store resources in its CDN permanently. As noted in my earlier article on why your CDN cache hit ratio is so low, one of the reasons is that CDNs always purge content that your visitors haven’t accessed in at least two days. This means […]