Green Hosting: Eco-Friendly Web Hosting
The internet uses a lot of power. Data centers around the world burn through electricity to keep websites online, and that electricity has to come from somewhere. For a long time, where it came from did not show up on anyone’s radar. That has started to change. Green hosting is the response. It is web […]
Content Security Policy: Prevent XSS & Data Injection
Content Security Policy, usually called CSP, is the most powerful security header available. While other security headers protect against specific attacks, CSP provides defense in depth against entire categories of attacks. Cross-site scripting. Data injection. Mixed content. Clickjacking. CSP addresses all of these and more. The trade-off is complexity. CSP requires careful configuration. Set it […]
404 Error Management: Handle Missing Pages Gracefully
A 404 error happens when someone tries to visit a page that does not exist on your site. The URL was wrong, the page was deleted, the link was broken, or something else went wrong. The result is the same: the visitor gets an error message instead of useful content. 404 errors are inevitable. Every […]
Malware Scanning: Detect & Remove Infections
A site can get infected with malware and the owner does not notice for weeks. The site looks fine. Visitors seem to be browsing normally. Search rankings are stable. Then one day Google flags the site as dangerous, the host suspends the account, or customers start reporting strange behavior. By that point, the damage is […]
Reseller Hosting: Start Your Own Hosting Business
If you build websites for a living, you have probably had this conversation. The client asks where their site will live. You say something about hosting. They look confused. You spend twenty minutes explaining what hosting is and helping them pick a provider. Then six months later, their host messes something up and they call […]
Security Headers: HTTP Security Configuration
Security headers are one of those topics that sound technical and obscure but actually matter quite a bit. They are pieces of information that your server sends to browsers along with every page. The information tells browsers how to handle your content in ways that improve security. Most sites have inadequate security headers because nobody […]
Broken Links: How to Find & Fix Them
Broken links are one of those problems that grows quietly. You launch a site with everything working. Over time, internal pages get deleted or moved. External sites you linked to change their URLs or disappear entirely. Plugins that managed content change behavior. Two years later, you have hundreds of broken links and never noticed. Broken […]
Web Application Firewall: Block Malicious Traffic
Most websites are under constant attack. Not big, dramatic attacks. Just background noise of automated probes from bots looking for vulnerabilities. SQL injection attempts. Cross-site scripting tries. Login brute force attacks. Attempts to exploit known vulnerabilities in WordPress, plugins, and common applications. A Web Application Firewall, or WAF, is the layer that blocks most of […]
Static Site Hosting: Fast & Secure
The web started with static sites. Pages were HTML files that lived on a server. Someone asked for a page, the server sent the file, the browser showed it. Simple. Then dynamic sites took over. Databases, server-side scripts, content management systems. The simple model went out of fashion. Now static sites are back, and they […]
Login Page Protection: Secure Your Admin Area
Your login page is one of the most attacked parts of your website. Every minute of every day, automated tools try to log into the admin areas of sites across the internet. Most attacks fail because they hit defenses. Some succeed because they hit sites without defenses. The login page is also one of the […]