The metric never measured the quality of your content, the cleanliness of your code, or the size of your audience. It measured the strength of your link profile, and conflating that with overall site quality is where the confusion starts.
I expected 23 of my 119 sites to be underperformers. I did not expect Google to have zero of their real pages in the index. I sampled 15 URLs per property through the Search Console URL Inspection API and grouped the results. On…
There was a moment when I nearly sent a mailing list without reading it line by line. Not because the list was short. Because every line looked fine. [email protected] — plausible. [email protected] — plausible. [email protected] — plausible enough that my eye kept sliding…
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has registered new proposals addressing IPv6 deployment, internationalized domain names, and global Internet governance ahead of its Plenipotentiary Conference in Doha, Qatar, next month. The submissions, recorded October 29, seek changes to existing ITU resolutions but have…
I measured those choices. In June 2025, I checked every ICANN-accredited registrar for a DS record on its primary domain. A DS record in the parent zone is what a validating resolver needs before it treats a domain as signed. Without…
To migrate a WordPress site, follow one of three main options: use a hosting provider’s migration service, a migration plugin, or the manual method, which involves transferring your files and database directly. A hosting migration service is the easiest path.
It's 2 a.m. Your origin server runs out of disk, panics, and never comes back. The on-call engineer is asleep. And here's the part that makes it worse: your DNS keeps answering, cheerfully and correctly, with the IP address of a machine…
Receivers silently ignore a malformed DMARC record. Common culprits: You should see exactly one line starting "v=DMARC1;". Without it, compliant receivers drop the report. This is the most common reason third-party report inboxes stay empty. Aggregate reports arrive as zipped…
Developers who work on billing recovery will debug everything: retry intervals, decline-code mapping,... Tagged with backend, saas, softwaredevelopment. Developers who work on billing recovery will debug everything: retry intervals, decline-code mapping, webhook idempotency, the card-update page's mobile layout. Then the…
When a small-business website's contact form shows "Message sent", three separate systems have already done three separate jobs: The form accepted the input and stored or forwarded it. The web server handed the message to a mail-sending mechanism (PHP mail,…
Resolvers, DNSSEC, anycast, BGP hijacks/leaks, and routing security (RPKI).
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