Hosting Guides & Tutorials

How to add a domain mailbox to the iPhone Mail app so it sends and receives without missing messages.

Creating a mailbox at your own domain takes a few minutes in the control panel. Here is the whole process, including where to read the mail.

Scheduling a task to run automatically, and how to read the five-field cron syntax that controls when.

How to write and publish a DMARC record, and why every domain should start at policy none before tightening it.

How to enable and configure a firewall on your VPS with ufw or firewalld, without accidentally shutting yourself out over SSH.

The order of operations for a fresh VPS, from your first SSH login through to a locked-down server ready for a website.

Two ways to give a team a single email address to work from, and which one suits a small team versus a larger one.

A subdomain, its own database, and a safe way to copy data across — what a staging environment needs before you can trust it.

One record that answers for every undefined subdomain of a domain at once, along with the SSL and security trade-offs that come with it.

The small amount of setup that lets you customise a theme without losing every change the next time it updates.

How to build, publish and check an SPF record so receiving servers recognise your legitimate mail senders.

Why the admin area is often slower than the site itself, and the plugins usually responsible for it.

Where a WooCommerce store actually loses its speed, and why the fix is different for catalogue pages and the checkout.

Measure first, then work through caching, images, plugins, PHP version and the database in the order that gives the biggest gain.

Automated tools quietly try thousands of guesses against your login form. A few layered defences make that approach stop being worthwhile.

Cache the wrong page and one customer starts seeing another customer's basket — here is exactly what to exclude and why.

Stopping other websites from loading your images directly and using up your bandwidth to do it.

How a web font ends up delaying the page or shifting its layout, and the specific settings that fix each cause.

The built-in settings, the anti-spam plugin, and the moderation rules that between them stop nearly all of it.

Issue the certificate, update the site URLs to https, force every visitor onto it, then clean up the mixed content this always leaves behind.

Hosted checkout, embedded fields, or building your own form — the choice affects your security workload far more than your conversion rate.

The specific, checkable signs of a genuine compromise, and how to tell them apart from an unrelated glitch before you act.

An untested backup is a belief rather than a safeguard — here is how to turn it into a fact you can rely on.

How to run a speed test that gives you a real answer, and the common mistakes that produce a misleading one.