There was a time, not so long ago, when a sizeable portion of online advertising was a slimy business. Websites had popups, pop-unders, hidden click layers, gateway pages, and many more tricks we have forgotten about. That’s a good thing that we can’t remember so many of those deceptive practices. It means the industry has — Continue reading »
Cloudflare One-Step Under Attack Mode For Multiple/All Zones
📆 September 2, 2022
The explosive surge in online hacks and attacks has forced may sites to seek out ways to mitigate such threats. Cloudflare’s Firewall is an indispensable tool to protect sites or specific assets within sites from online threats, specifically the automated threats known as bots that relentlessly scan sites for vulnerabilities and exploits. The JS Challenge — Continue reading »
Migrating To Cloud, Digital Ocean, Cloudflare
📆 July 22, 2021
When I started this site decades ago, I followed the usual path at that time to launch sites, shared hosting. There were many vendors to choose from but nothing like the quantity and diversity of what’s available today. I registered the domain, settled on a small vendor for $5/month, got my cPanel and terminal login — Continue reading »
JAMstack - How To Make The Web Slower
📆 April 23, 2021
Starting a few years ago everywhere you look, sites are getting updated with a new approach known as JAMstack. JAM, initials for JavaScript, API, and Markup is lauded as more revolutionary, more scalable, speedier, and more flexible than the older style website development. Some of these claims may be true but for the most part — Continue reading »
Goodbye to Pingdom
📆 January 7, 2019
I have used the free Pingdom service for nearly 9 years to monitor the health of this site. Over the years it has been a helpful service and at times they would add even more useful features. Then came 2014 when SolarWinds, a public-then-private-then-public company catering to businesses with their analytics products and services, acquired — Continue reading »
The GDPR Mess
📆 June 8, 2018
With GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) being in full force since May 25, 2018, one must assume that the privacy and security of users are now fully protected. I think it’s an understatement to call that claim an over-exaggeration. GDPR is a European regulation designed to protect the privacy of European citizens, giving them full — Continue reading »
A Simple Post-HTTP-to-HTTPS SEO Checklist
📆 September 14, 2017
With Chrome version 62 arriving next month Google will begin making good on the promise of warning users when they land on non-secure (non-SSL, non-TLS) sites. This will be subtle at first with a light gray warning on pages that contain any input forms. This warning message will get progressively prevalent and prominent with every — Continue reading »
WordPress Global Replace http to https
📆 August 18, 2017
If you are dealing with the pain of migrating your site from non-secure plain http to secure SSL/TLS https, then you are also dealing with the headache of making sure the elements on your pages such as images have https sources instead of http. The reason is that if your pages are accessed over https — Continue reading »
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