With NameHero, you can use InterWorx as your web hosting control panel. It’s free, compared to cPanel and WHM, but it does need some getting used to – particularly with the terminology. Instead of the familiar cPanel/WHM terms, we use InterWorx and SiteWorx. Here’s how to change the password for an individual SiteWorx user through […]
How To Ensure That Google Shows The Whole Title
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 […]
How To Prevent Simple DDoS Attacks On A VPS
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, […]
How To Ensure Your VPS Server Emails Aren’t Marked As Spam
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. […]
Why Changing Your WordPress Theme Isn’t A Good Idea
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 […]
How To Specify Your Site Name In Google SERPs
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. The idea is that […]
Blocking Countries In QUIC.cloud And Cloudflare
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 […]
Use Cloudflare Cache Rules Instead Of Page Rules
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 […]
The First CDN With Infinite Cache Retention?
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 […]
You Should Manually Compress Your WordPress Images To WebP
Though the latter is more common, images in the WebP format are smaller than those in the JPEG format. However, most image distribution sites offer downloads in either PNG or JPEG. Programs like MS Paint (still extremely common – I use it myself!) don’t offer the option to save images in WebP. But since WebP […]