Domain Transfer: Moving Your Domain Name
Your domain name is one of the most important things you own online. The address visitors type to reach your site. The identity in email addresses. The brand that appears in search results. Where the domain is registered (the registrar) does not affect any of this directly, but it does affect your control, your costs, […]
WP Engine Review: Premium Managed WordPress
WP Engine sits at the top of the managed WordPress hosting market. They are one of the original players in the space and they have built a strong reputation among agencies, big publishers, and businesses that want WordPress hosting handled by experts. The catch is the price. WP Engine costs several times what budget WordPress […]
Incident Response Plan: What to Do When Hacked
The moment you realize your site has been hacked is not the moment to figure out what to do. The mental space you have during a crisis is limited. Decisions made in the middle of an incident under stress are often worse than decisions made calmly in advance. An incident response plan is the document […]
Site Migration: Moving to a New Host
Most site owners move hosts at least once. The original host gets too expensive at renewal. Performance does not match needs anymore. Support has been bad. A better option emerges. The reasons are many. The actual work of migration is what most people dread. Site migration is not as scary as it sounds when you […]
SiteGround Review: Performance & Support
SiteGround is one of the names that comes up over and over when people ask for hosting recommendations. They built their reputation on two things: fast servers and great support. For years, they sat alongside Bluehost and DreamHost as one of the three hosts officially recommended by WordPress.org. This review walks through how SiteGround actually […]
Security Monitoring: Detect Threats Early
The worst time to find out about a security incident is months after it happened. By then, the damage has compounded. The attacker has had time to move around. The cleanup has become a major project. The lessons should have been learned earlier. Security monitoring catches issues fast. Real-time alerts mean response in minutes rather […]
URL Changes: How to Redirect Without Losing SEO
Changing URLs on a website is one of those tasks that looks simple and turns out to be one of the riskiest things you can do for SEO. A URL change without proper redirect handling can wipe out years of accumulated search authority overnight. The same change with proper redirects preserves almost all of that […]
DreamHost Review: Pros & Cons
DreamHost has been around since 1996, which makes it ancient by web hosting standards. They have built a reputation for solid uptime, fair pricing, and being one of the three official hosts recommended by WordPress.org. That is a short list and DreamHost has been on it for years. This review covers what DreamHost does well, […]
Referrer-Policy: Control Referrer Information
Every time someone clicks a link from your site to another site, their browser sends information about where they came from. The destination site learns the URL that referred the visitor. For simple cases, this is harmless. For privacy-conscious cases or cases involving sensitive URLs, the default behavior leaks information that should stay private. Referrer-Policy […]
Dead Page Removal: When to Delete Content
Most site advice focuses on creating more content. Publish more posts. Add more pages. Cover more topics. The assumption is that more is better. The opposite is often true. Sites accumulate dead pages over time. Content that no longer serves a purpose. Pages that have never gotten traffic. Posts on topics that no longer matter […]