by Charles Oropallo | May 21, 2022 1:16 pm | Email, Technical Help
As a general policy at CharlesWorks, we set up email on separate servers from your website. Doing this keeps mail server traffic from affecting website resources and vice versa. The local mail server on the DirectAdmin must be disabled when using a remote mail server....
by Charles Oropallo | April 6, 2022 12:00 am | Email, Technical Help, Web Hosting
The Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials runs on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, which was an extremely popular server. It is still an extremely stable platform for handling DNS, serving up websites, and handling email servers. Despite being long past...
by Charles Oropallo | April 1, 2022 12:00 am | Email
Whether you are running a household or a business, it’s easy for your emails to ultimately get out of control. Having plenty of space to store them along with fast access to them can save a lot of time and headaches. A number of years ago, we at CharlesWorks...
by Charles Oropallo | March 15, 2022 10:22 am | Technical Help, WordPress
There are many times when we might need to know what IP address we are using. We at CharlesWorks use this information mostly for some Under Construction plugins. For example, to allow one to view a website that is using an Under Construction plugin without having to...
by Charles Oropallo | January 7, 2022 12:27 pm | Domain Names, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Technical Help, Web Hosting, WordPress
Sometimes we might go from a site located in a folder off the root of a site to a subdomain or site of its own in a standalone environment. Why would we want to do this? There are some advantages for separating out your sub-sites into separate sites: Security: With...
by Charles Oropallo | December 8, 2021 12:35 pm | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
This is a work in progress, so bear with me as it is not done yet! Jetpack, created and maintained by Autommatic, has increasingly moved toward monetization over the past years. As part of this process, Autommatic wants to generate more and more revenue. There was a...
by Charles Oropallo | November 12, 2021 3:17 pm | Technical Help, Web Hosting
One of the harder parts of error hunting in a WordPress site can be debugging the PHP code. Fortunately, WordPress comes with specific debug systems that can simplify the process. The debug systems also standardize code across the core, plugins and themes. I’ll...
by Charles Oropallo | October 24, 2021 1:23 am | Technical Help
This article explains how to change the hostname and IP address of a Linux CentOS 7 server. There are two basic facts about subnets that are in play when making these particular changes: The hostname is the name a computer (or server) goes by on the network. Each...
by Charles Oropallo | October 4, 2021 5:12 pm | WordPress
This is a very brief informational post just showing by example of a change to the background in a page. I wanted to make changes to end up with the same (or a similar) background on most of the website’s pages. I also wanted the background to be a muted version...
by Charles Oropallo | October 1, 2021 10:44 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
Everyone wants their web pages to come up lightning fast. There are several reasons they might not – ranging from your internet connection through the number of other users in your area or even the weather conditions – to name but a few. Despite that,...
by Charles Oropallo | July 31, 2021 10:53 am | Technical Help
There are many changes happening in Debian versions, so software suspend (sleep) works in various ways in the different versions. For obvious reasons, the software suspend cannot be allowed to happen on servers that are supposed to be available 24/7. After software...
by Charles Oropallo | July 27, 2021 5:32 pm | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
The spamming of web forms has grown tremendously over the past several years. Spamming forms is inevitable with any forms on websites. This has little or nothing to do with where your website is hosted. The problem The main problem is that even though it is, and has...
by Charles Oropallo | July 25, 2021 4:59 pm | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Keeping your site cleared of spam comments will also allow it to operate more efficiently. Getting spam comments has nothing to do with your web hosting. It has to do with setting up what is necessary to mitigate the spammers. This will help immensely with keeping...
by Charles Oropallo | July 24, 2021 3:24 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
Within days of this writing, the Twenty Ten theme was updated. The fact that this theme is still kept up is a very good thing from a security point of view. The update included what appeared to be more extensive uses of blocks in WordPress. In my opinion, WordPress...
by Charles Oropallo | July 6, 2021 5:33 pm | Email, Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Spam Prevention nightmares Spam prevention has been a nightmare for all involved since even before I began CharlesWorks in 1998. Spammers: they are always trying to find ways around the spam protection. Email users: It is a constant battle trying to sort spam from...
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