What is a DDoS Attack and What Do You Do About It?
DDoS attacks are in the news again, so we thought this would be a good time to put together an explainer as ...
SSL Certificates Are Not Magic Pixie Dust – Basic Website Security Tips
Since the big names in tech like Google now require SSLs for all websites - or else present you with ...
Preparing Your Website or Server for a Major Traffic Event
Traffic happens. Sometimes a lot of it at once. And it’s very much a good thing when it does. As ...
Common HTTP Response Error Codes and What They Mean
We've all been there - we've visited a website, and instead of finding the website we wanted to visit - ...
Disaster is Inevitable: Dedicated Hosting Backup Strategies
Disasters happen. Not just disasters you can foresee, but disasters that you cannot possibly plan for. When your business relies ...
Big Changes Coming in cPanel 96
cPanel has been rocking it recently, cranking out updates to their popular web server management platform at a breakneck space. ...
What Happens When You Hit Your Resource Limits on Shared Hosting (Error Code 508)?
We've all been there. We think things are humming along fine with our website, but when we visit it, there's ...
Own the Printing Press: Build Your Own Substack, We’ve Been Here Before – Part 2
Last week I wrote about how you should not jump on the Substack (and similar platforms) bandwagon and instead build ...
Dedicated Hosting: Moving to a Dedicated Server With Blacknight One Year On
One year ago, I made a major move for my business - I moved from being hosted on a well-known ...
Don’t Panic: What to do if your provider stops offering domains, hosting or DNS Services
After a few Irish hosts and DNS providers decided to cancel service, tons of customers have had to scramble to ...
Owncloud vs Nextcloud: Which Self-Hosted Private Cloud and Groupware Platform Is Best?
One of the things I was most excited about using my own dedicated server for was rolling my own Dropbox-like ...
Taking cPanel’s New WordPress Toolkit for a Drive
As someone who has their own dedicated server, I get geekily excited about new features that will make my workflow ...
