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My website’s been hacked: first steps to take
A calm, practical checklist for the first hours after discovering your website has been compromised, from containment to bringing it back online safely.
16 September 2026 5 min read
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What is Windows Server, and which edition should you run?
A plain-English guide to Windows Server versions and editions, covering Server 2019, 2022 and 2025, Standard vs Datacenter, and GUI vs Server Core for…
18 September 2026 4 min read
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Choosing the Right TLD for Your Business
.com, a UK ccTLD, or a newer gTLD? A practical, no-hype look at what actually matters when picking a domain extension for a business.
23 September 2026 5 min read
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Installing and Renewing a Free SSL Certificate with Let’s Encrypt
A plain-English walkthrough of getting a free Let's Encrypt certificate with certbot, how the ACME protocol works, and why auto-renewal matters.
25 September 2026 7 min read
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Choosing and configuring a WordPress caching plugin
Caching plugins all promise a faster site, but they're working on different layers of the problem. Here's what each layer actually does and how…
30 September 2026 5 min read
Emails
Email authentication explained: how SPF, DKIM, DMARC and DNSSEC fit together
A plain-English guide to how SPF, DKIM, DMARC and DNSSEC each play a different role in protecting your domain and email, with links to…
2 October 2026 4 min read
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MySQL and MariaDB Basics: Users, Privileges and What phpMyAdmin Does
A beginner's guide to how database users and privileges work in MySQL and MariaDB, and what phpMyAdmin actually is (and isn't).
7 October 2026 4 min read
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robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt Explained
How robots.txt, sitemap.xml and the newer llms.txt file each guide web crawlers, and why llms.txt should still be treated as experimental in 2026.
9 October 2026 5 min read
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Understanding Backups: Full vs Incremental, and the 3-2-1 Rule
A plain-English guide to full, incremental and differential backups, plus the 3-2-1 rule for keeping your data genuinely recoverable.
14 October 2026 5 min read
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Understanding HTTP Status Codes: 200, 301, 404, 500 and 503 Explained
A clear guide to the HTTP status codes you see most often, what each one actually means, and why 301 and 302 redirects are…
16 October 2026 5 min read
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What Is a DDoS Attack and How Do Hosts Mitigate It?
A plain-English guide to DDoS attacks: volumetric, protocol, and application-layer types, how they differ from a genuine traffic spike, and how mitigation actually works.
21 October 2026 5 min read