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It Takes More than HTTPS to Make Your Website Secure

October 20, 2017 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Encryption makes the web more secure
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Checking Up on Your Website

You need HTTPS on your website. It encrypts all data sent to and from your web server, which is especially important if visitors are handing over contact details or payment information. But there’s more to website security than encryption. Continue Reading It Takes More than HTTPS to Make Your Website Secure

Filed Under: Hosting and Servers Tagged With: SSL, Security, WordPress Hosting

227 WP-Tonic: Setting Up Nameservers and DNS Record Types

September 10, 2017 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

WP-Tonic Roundtable 227: Setting up DNS and Nameservers
This entry is part 19 of 30 in the series WP-Tonic Roundtable

We have a reduced panel for this weeks WP-Tonic round-table show (Jonathan Denwood and Sallie Goetsch) but I feel we still did a great job of covering this week WordPress news stories.

The post 227 WP-Tonic: Setting Up Nameservers and DNS Record Types appeared first on WP-Tonic: WordPress Support & Small Fixes. Continue Reading 227 WP-Tonic: Setting Up Nameservers and DNS Record Types

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Updating Cloudflare DNS to Use SiteGround’s MX What happens when you need to change MX records on Cloudflare?

March 9, 2017 by Sallie Goetsch 9 Comments

Updated Cloudflare DNS settings for dorataya.com

I spent entirely too much time trying to update MX records on Cloudflare to work with SiteGround instead of GoDaddy. Since I couldn’t find a tutorial about how to make it work, I decided to write one. Continue Reading Updating Cloudflare DNS to Use SiteGround’s MX What happens when you need to change MX records on Cloudflare?

Filed Under: Hosting and Servers Tagged With: CloudFlare

Not to be confused with the World Wide Web A pedantic pet peeve about misuse of the term "Internet"

July 1, 2016 by Sallie Goetsch 1 Comment

BITNET Relay commands (from Wikipedia)

I am an incurable pedant, and I cringe whenever I hear someone refer to the 1990s as “before the Internet.” Especially when they’re old enough to know better. Continue Reading Not to be confused with the World Wide Web A pedantic pet peeve about misuse of the term “Internet”

Filed Under: Hosting and Servers

How to Tell Bots to Go Crawl Themselves

April 13, 2016 by Sallie Goetsch 1 Comment

padlock and circuitry

Is your site overwhelmed by bots? Add this code to your .htaccess file and tell bots to go crawl themselves: it points all bots but the ones you specify to localhost. Continue Reading How to Tell Bots to Go Crawl Themselves

Filed Under: Hosting and Servers Tagged With: Security, Tutorial

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