Apache bug leads to websites dropping out of Yandex search
An Apache server bug caused HTTP/2 websites to drop out of the Yandex search engine. Here’s how to work around the bug to get your site back into the Yandex index.
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How I dealt with web content scrapers
The tale of how I fought back against website content scrapers to protect my copyright. I returned auto-generated garbage content, and they gobbled it up.
UFW vs FirewallD
A look into the different strengths and weaknesses of Canonical’s Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) vs Red Hat’s FirewallD firewall solutions for Linux.
3 freemium website uptime monitoring services compared
A group review of the free tiers of the three uptime-monitoring services: Site24x7 vs StatusCake vs UptimeRobot.
My experience with Let’s Encrypt
My early-adopter experiences obtaining free HTTPS certificates from Let’s Encrypt.
User-Agent of Microsoft Edge on Xbox One with Windows 10
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; Xbox; Xbox One) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2486.0 Safari/537.36 Edge/13.10553
How to handle relative URLs with multiple forward slashes
Set up redirects from URLs with too many forward-slashes in the path to a normalized address with one slash. Helps fix problems with relative URL resolution.
Integrate your website as a search provider in Microsoft Edge
How to make your website appear as a suggested search engine in Microsoft Edge using the OpenSearch auto-discovery protocol.
Set up a wildcard domain to catch misstyped adresses
Humans mistype ww. or wwww. all the time. Set up a wild card domain to catch and redirect all these simple mistakes to not lose out on traffic.
Recover mistyped traffic: Redirect .htm to .html
Set up redirects from variations of .html to the canonical document location. Stop losing website traffic to simple-to-recover-from typos.
Diving into DigitalOcean
I’ve migrated all my websites to DigitalOcean and saved 85 % on hosting compared to my previous VPS provider.
Become a search provider in Safari Quick Website Search
Here’s how to make your website appear as a suggested search provider in Safari’s new Quick Website Search feature.