Why your email goes to spam (and how SPF, DKIM and DMARC fix it)
Business email landing in junk folders is almost always missing authentication. What SPF, DKIM and DMARC do, and how to check yours in a minute.
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Notes from the people who run the servers
Practical guides on the things customers actually ask us about — email that goes to spam, moving hosts without downtime, and what to do at 3am when a site is compromised.
How to move your website to a new host without downtime
Downtime during a migration is caused by doing things in the wrong order, not by the copying. The sequence that works, and the two mistakes to avoid.
Read it →Shared hosting vs VPS: which one do you actually need?
An honest comparison from a company that sells both. Most sites do not need a VPS — and three specific signals that mean you genuinely do.
Read it →Does SSL help your SEO ranking? An honest answer
HTTPS is a Google ranking signal, but a small one. The bigger reasons to switch are browser warnings, lost referral data and blocked modern features.
Read it →Your WordPress site has been hacked. Here is what to do first
A calm order of operations for a compromised WordPress site: contain it, find out how they got in, clean it properly, then close the hole.
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