EXPLAINERS

What Is a .htaccess File?

What is a htaccess file, and why does everyone warn you not to touch it carelessly? It’s a small, powerful configuration file…

September 2026 Read →

SECURITY & SSL

7 Steps to Fix Mixed Content Errors

Mixed content errors are what’s causing your browser to show a security warning even though you’ve already installed an SSL certificate. You…

August 2026 Read →

EXPLAINERS

Why Your Site Needs a Sitemap (And How to Check Yours)

An XML sitemap is a file that lists every page on your site for search engines to find. If you’re not sure…

August 2026 Read →

EXPLAINERS

What Actually Happens When You Type a URL and Hit Enter

You type a web address into your browser, hit enter, and a fraction of a second later a page appears. It feels…

July 2026 Read →

SECURITY & SSL

Two-Factor Authentication

“I’m too small to be a target” is the single most common reason people give for skipping two-factor authentication, and it’s backwards.…

July 2026 Read →

EXPLAINERS

What a CDN Actually Does

Cloudflare comes up constantly in conversations about website performance. Someone reads that a CDN will make their site faster, adds Cloudflare, and…

June 2026 Read →

SECURITY & SSL

Fighting Spam in 2026

Back in 2021, we published a post on the old WordPress site about training SpamAssassin to fight spam. The cron commands in…

May 2026 Read →

SECURITY & SSL

SSL Certificates Explained: Why Your Site Needs HTTPS

If you’ve ever clicked on a website and had your browser throw up a red warning screen saying “Your connection is not…

April 2026 Read →

SERVER & INFRASTRUCTURE

What We Actually Do to Our Servers (And Why It Makes Your Site Faster)

We’ve been running hosting servers since 1999. In that time, we’ve learned that most of the difference between a fast host and…

April 2026 Read →