cPanel is widely known for its extensive ecosystem of third-party plugins and integrations. Its interface will be familiar to many hosting customers, which can reduce the learning curve for users…
You’ll leave with a short list that fits your budget and growth plan – and keeps your site online.Suggested Read: How to Reduce Cache Misses & Avoid Them: Proven Tips…
Let’s take a quick look at some of the core features of Perfmatters and how it improves Core Web Vitals. Perfmatters is a powerful and versatile plugin that helps you optimize…
Looking for the next great open source project for your home lab? In this video, I share 7 open source infrastructure projects that I’m watching closely in 2026. These projects…
Using a newer, more advanced network protocol can significantly improve your website’s performance, particularly during the initial connection phase. In our recent post about HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3, we explained that…
Choosing the right DNS server can make a huge difference in your home lab. In this video, I break down the five DNS servers I think every home lab should…
And the difference is you can also spoof different devices. So if something is not available for your device, you don’t have to go to some random APK store and…
Edge caching in WordPress stores a copy of your website on servers located very close to your visitors. These servers are part of a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) with…
When a support agent or a developer asks you to “refresh” a page, it can be confusing to know exactly what they mean. There is a big difference between a…
If you have implemented preloading tags but your Largest Contentful Paint and Cumulative Layout Shift scores haven’t changed, the issue is likely related to the total weight of your page…
In this video I walk through the core tools that quietly run my Proxmox home lab every day in 2026. From virtualization and distributed storage with Proxmox and Ceph, to…
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The internet is a complex network of connections, which is why this error can originate from your local computer, your internet service provider, or the website’s server. To fix it,…
Borg is a powerful, fast, and reliable solution that is also very explicit, and forgetting even a single flag can affect the end result in ways you didn’t intend to….
In this video, I share the real-world services I stopped self-hosting in my home lab and we look at why cloud or managed solutions ultimately made more sense for me…
Note: in RunCloud, we use MariaDB for your database. It is an enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL, made by the original developers of MySQL with the promise of maintaining ongoing…
This is part 1 of a series of blog posts where I will walk you through all the steps needed to prepare your ESX hosts as part of bringing up…
This is part 2 of a series of blog posts where I will walk you through all the steps needed to deploy the VCF Installer appliance as part of bringing…
