Squarespace Hosting: What’s Included
Squarespace is one of those platforms that gets recommended over and over for a reason. It looks good out of the box, it works without much fiddling, and it does not ask you to think about hosting at all. The hosting is built in, the templates are polished, and the whole experience is built around […]
X-Content-Type-Options: Prevent MIME Sniffing
X-Content-Type-Options is one of the simplest security headers but also one that gets overlooked. It has only one valid value. The configuration is trivial. The protection is meaningful against a specific class of attacks. The header tells browsers not to guess what type of content they are receiving. Without this header, browsers sometimes treat files […]
Content Freshness: Update Old Posts for SEO
Many site owners think about content as a one-way creation process. Write a post, publish it, move on to the next one. Old posts sit in the archive collecting dust. Some perform well. Most slowly lose traffic as they age and competitors publish fresher takes on the same topics. This approach leaves significant value on […]
Wix Hosting: How the Website Builder Handles Hosting
Wix is one of the biggest website builders on the market. It runs on a simple promise: sign up, pick a template, drag stuff around, publish a site. The hosting is part of the deal. You never see a server or touch a config file. For a lot of users, that is exactly what they […]
X-Frame-Options: Prevent Clickjacking
Clickjacking is one of those attacks that sounds simple but causes real damage. The attacker embeds your site in an invisible iframe on their malicious page. They overlay deceptive content on top of the invisible iframe. When the visitor clicks what they think is a button on the malicious page, they are actually clicking something […]
Image Optimization for Maintenance: Keep Files Small
Images are usually the biggest assets on a website. A typical page weight is dominated by images, not by HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or other content. Optimizing images is often the single biggest performance improvement you can make. The challenge is that images accumulate over time. You upload a few each week. Multiplied across years, that […]
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org: Hosting Differences
The two WordPress sites confuse almost everyone who runs into them. They sound identical. They share a brand. They both make websites. But they are different products, run by different companies, with different rules and costs. If you pick the wrong one, you can end up paying too much, getting stuck with limits you cannot […]
HSTS: Enforce HTTPS Connections
HTTPS has become the default for the modern web. But HTTPS alone is not enough. There is a window where users can still end up on HTTP versions of sites, or be tricked into HTTP connections by attackers. HSTS closes that window. HTTP Strict Transport Security, usually called HSTS, is a security header that tells […]
Database Optimization: Speed Up Your Dynamic Site
The database is the part of your site that does most of the actual work on every page load. When a visitor lands on your home page, the database gets queried. When they click through to a blog post, more queries happen. When they search, when they comment, when they log in. Every interaction touches […]
Automated Backups: Why You Need Daily Backups
Almost every site owner who has been around for a while has a backup horror story. The site got hacked and the host had no backups. A bad plugin update wiped out content. A team member deleted something they should not have. A hosting account got suspended and the data was lost. The patterns repeat […]