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How to Connect to Your Hosting Account via FTP Connecting an FTP client correctly, the settings that reject a valid password, and when File Manager is the better tool. How to Password Protect a Directory When directory protection is right, where it backfires, HTTPS as a precondition, and better tools for adjacent jobs. How to Set Up a File Upload Directory Safely Any site accepting uploads has a directory that strangers can write into. If the server will execute what lands there, the site has an upload form and... How to Upload Your Website Files Using File Manager Getting a site onto the server, the public_html rule that explains most confusion, and what to do about upload size limits. How to Use Cron Jobs to Automate Tasks What is worth scheduling and what is not, the two failure modes, frequency, timezones, and finding jobs you inherited. Understanding File Permissions and Ownership Reading permission digits, the two values a normal site needs, why 777 is an exposure, and repairing a mangled tree.

Addon Domains, Subdomains and Duplicate Content The three domain types, fixing the duplication with canonicals and redirects, and the check that finds it. How to Create a Custom Error Page Creating error pages that recover a lost visitor, what to leave off them, and fixing the broken links behind the 404s. How to Move a Website to a New Domain Mapping URLs first, setting the new domain up alongside, single-hop redirects, mail, and telling search engines. How to Redirect a Domain or Page Setting up redirects in cPanel and . Includes a screen recording How to Transfer a Website to a New Owner Moving the domain, avoiding shared logins, the inventory that is the handover, mail, and removing your own access. Subdomain, Subfolder or Addon Domain: Which to Use Blog, shop, staging site, second business. Each can be a subfolder, a subdomain or a separate domain. The decision affects addresses, certificates and...

How to Choose and Set Up a CDN When a CDN helps and when it does not, proxy versus asset-only, certificate modes, and what must never be cached at the edge. How to Handle a Traffic Spike What actually breaks first, what helps during a spike, what to avoid, and preparing for one you expect. How to Host a Static Site or Single-Page App Correctly Serving files is the easy part. What breaks a static site or a single-page app is a deep link that returns 404 and a deployment nobody sees because th... How to Measure Page Speed Properly A score out of a hundred is a lab result from one simulated device on one simulated connection. Improving it is not the same as making the site faster... How to Monitor Your Hosting Resources Reading the four resource numbers that matter, what actually fills each, and telling a resource ceiling apart from a bug. How to Serve Fonts and Third-Party Assets Locally Why the performance case changed, the privacy case, self-hosting fonts properly, icons, and what must stay remote. How to Set Up and Read Uptime Monitoring Choosing what to check, alert thresholds that avoid crying wolf, testing the alerting, and reading response-time trends. How to Speed Up a Website in the Right Order A sequence by size of effect, what to measure first, and the symptom that means queuing rather than slowness. How to Tell Whether a Slow Site Is the Server or the Site Everyone with a slow site is told to upgrade their hosting. Sometimes that is right. One command tells you which case you have before you spend anythi...

How to Enable Hotlink Protection Whether hotlinking is actually costing you anything, how to enable protection without breaking your own site, and a gentler alternative. How to Recognise and Handle a DDoS Attack A site that goes down under load is usually not under attack. The distinction matters because the responses are completely different, and one of them ... How to Respond to a Copyright or Takedown Complaint A takedown notice is a deadline. Handling it yourself keeps the decision with you; ignoring it moves the decision to your host, whose only tool is sus... How to Set Up Website Security Headers What each header does, setting them at the server, the report-only stage for CSP, and what headers do not protect. How to Stop Bots and Scrapers from Consuming Resources Automated traffic is the usual explanation for a site that is slow with no more visitors than last month. Some of it you want, some is indifferent, an... What a Website Needs for Privacy and Cookie Compliance What actually needs consent, inventorying what you collect, retention you enforce, data requests, and the breach clock. What to Do If Your Site Is Flagged or Blocked Telling the warnings apart, checking as a visitor rather than as yourself, requesting review, and the lag afterwards.

How to Find and Fix Broken Links on Your Site Reading the 404 log first, ignoring probe noise, crawling properly, fixing at the source, and images. How to Set Up a Maintenance Page Properly Serving the right status, whitelisting yourself, writing a page that cannot fail, and taking it down properly. How to Set Up a Simple Status Page Hosting it independently, keeping it static, what to write, automated checks alongside, and closing an incident properly. How to Write a robots.txt and Control Crawling The most common robots. Understanding HTTP Status Codes What each common code means, reading them in bulk from the log, and the confusing cases that look like something else. htaccess Rules Worth Knowing Redirects, HTTPS and hostname in one rule, protecting files, error pages, headers, compression, and why [END] exists.

How to Back Up and Restore Your Website in cPanel Most backup advice stops at taking one. The restore is where the decisions are: how much to put back, in what order, and what will still be wrong when... How to Create and Manage Email Accounts Hosting email with your website is convenient and included. It also couples two things that fail independently, and the coupling is invisible until on... Introduction to Web Hosting at Ahosting What the hosting account includes, which limit actually constrains a busy site, and the first five things to do.