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I’m a pro-webmaster and net guru offering free advice. I specialize in CloudFlare setup. SEO. Social Media. Tweaking and Modding WordPress. General Webmaster Net Help.
I think CloudFlare DNS Management appears to have lost its mojo. For over 10 years I’ve put my websites behind CloudFlare and have raved about the speed increase and its security perks. But in 2022 I’ve noticed slowness on speed tests. I also believe this website was being throttled because of its political articles. CF has come up with other services that promote better performance…
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CloudFlare WARP VPN is without a doubt the best VPN on the market and it’s FREE. I use it on my Winders 10 desktop computer and my iPhone. Another strong point about CloudFlare WARP is that it’s trusted by big tech, so when logging into Facebook or any Google service they don’t flag the IP as suspicious. I’m sure those of you that have used…
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WordPress HIGH-Performance is a must these days whether you’re an independent blogger like me or running a Political or Corporate website. WordPress is an open-source content management system (CMS) that powers around sixty percent of the web worldwide. It’s well supported and has an array of plugins that make optimizing it a cinch for site owners and webmasters like me who have tweaked its performance…
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Recently I gave cPanel the boot and said hello to Plesk Obsidian Web Admin SE which is FREE for up to 3 domains. I’ve run cPanel for well over a decade, but its license fee has skyrocketed within the past year. Searching for an alternative and trying two others, I chose the FREE Plesk Obsidian Web Admin SE version as the easiest to set up.…
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Running WHM / cPanel hosting cloud instance? cPanel has new multi tiered pricing . It’s no doubt that cPanel is the best web server software on the net, but from what I’m reading starting on 09/01/19. Licensees will be billed by how many account’s (domains) are hosted on an instance. Looks like it will get really expensive to run under cPanel. As a hobbyist i…
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Trying to reach a worldwide audience? A content delivery network (CDN) is he way to go. The whole idea is to push your content from a node closest to your audience. This blog is pushed out of CloudFlare which delivers it worldwide with the least amount of network hops. This world map shows this cdn’s node locations in major cities . If your audience is…
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Google is reverting back to it’s previous shorter meta description length. The latest meta description is said to be reduced to between 150 to 170 Characters. Though as of this post no definite meta length has been revealed. According to Yoast . Our meta descriptions need to be shorter. Just a few months ago, we told you that your meta descriptions could be longer . Now…
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Hotlinking is the shady dark-web practice of linking to resources on your server. Scammers are stealing your bandwidth. Even worse your resources are used to spread malware killing your domain’s trust factor! Google and Bing track your images and other hotlinked resources. Backlinks coming from spammy phishing domains and will earn your domain a penalty. Here’s how to stop this bad element in it’s tracks!…
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Visitor Maps and Who’s Online by Mike Challis is a favorite among WordPress webmasters to display visitors IP addresses and location. Unfortunately IPV6 addresses are cut off by visitor maps 20 character IPV4 field limit. Doc shows how to mod it’s character length in this tutorial solving the problem. Visitor Maps and Who’s Online is unfortunately no longer available on the WordPress plugin repository. Mike…
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Yoast SEO Version 7 removes manual sitemap toggle. As an advanced WordPress blogger selecting what sitemaps were generated was a big plus for me. Yoast’s WordPress Version 7 is hyped to be cleaner lightweight code with unneeded features removed. Meta keywords was an unneeded feature that many folks probably didn’t use, I agree with that removal. But in my personal opinion removing sitemap display configuration…
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WHM cPanel Version 70 is in Current release as of this posting. Version 70’s biggest feature is cPhulk country blocking. This protects your server from SSH and other attacks by troublesome countries that take place constantly. Today we lay out how to update your servers preferences to upgrade to any Current WHM / cPanel release . First before attempting this procedure we highly recommend taking…
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Simple browser tool SITE command checks if your urls are indexed, or in our example are NOT Indexed. This works with Bing and Yahoo search, Google search, and possibly others like AOL and Yandex Etc. Being a conservative blogger FidoSysop has noticed some blog posts that should be getting lots of views are not. It’s a known fact that conservatives and Donald Trump supporters have…
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