bikegremlin
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- Relja Novović a.k.a. Bike Gremlin - https://www.bikegremlin.com/about/
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(Quote) Never got down to writing an article on that, but WP has its pros. The ease of content update and maintenances for one. I'm yet to find a non-database driven CMS that matches that. Also - I have a few sites with about 200 posts, and ab…
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(Quote) WP users use of the term "static" sounds a bit confusing at times. It used to mean: pre-made, not database driven content. There are WP plugins and other ways of making WP be basically used as a back-end for creating static web pag…
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Not strictly WP related, but it is PHP - and didn't seem sensible starting a new thread. I put this PHP code in an index.php file on a shared hosting server: <?phpdate_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');echo date('l jS…
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(Quote) If Google Analytics is to be trusted, CF does help reduce avg. page load time (it also reduces the hosting server load to a degree). Some of my articles have 5 to 10 images (not a huge number, and the images aren't huge, but not just on…
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(Quote) Yes - a very good point. For Cloudflare in particular: i've measured average page load times to drop, but the page load times for visitors located near the hosting server have slightly increased. Well, unless a website is configured to …
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(Quote) Using a CDN for images makes the DB smaller? Not just the files (uploads) directory? 5 $ Cloudflare package lets you use their network of edge (CDN) servers for serving both all the images, and all the cached pages. Or you could use a free …
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(Quote) Long post. Probably pointless - but some info might be helpful, or interesting. :) Example 1 This one is served through CF - so practically all the pages are cached there. GTmetrix report, for noting any optimization errors (well, Images s…
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(Quote) It's not that simple. :) And no - it doesn't generally (not in my opinion). In this particular case - LiteSpeed's storing of GA scripts locally seemed to have caused the problem. Had to disable that.
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(Quote) Yes. Your suggestion got the solution. I was stuck.
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(Quote) Will look into it. Suspecting LiteSpeed cache for now. Since a website not using LiteSpeed (plain HTML one) is looking normally. While it too is using the same Cloudflare configuration. Just dug this out. Still not sure if it makes sense, …
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(Quote) Hmmm. Strange. I just checked. Cleared cache, and all: <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-64 .... and so on Looks identical (apart from the exact tracking code number) to the non WP (plain HTML) websit…
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(Quote) As for the GP: They used to sell for about 50$, with discount for renewal (ending up at 30$). I thought about it, and thought: "Oh, well - it's not too bad, if I ever need it, I'll pay." Never needed anything that couldn&…
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(Quote) That annoying guy who just "steps" into the conversation: =) GeneratePress is like most other themes available on wp.org: You get the basic functionality for free, but you need to pay for having all the available options using j…
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Hmm - noticed a strange thing - seems to have started about 10 days ago, and is domain-wide: All the websites on my domain (bikegremlin.com) show basically zero visitors in Google Analytics, since the start of this February. Hadn't changed an…
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KeePass comes to mind: https://keepass.info/ If anyone thinks it's a bad idea, please correct me.
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(Quote) My (subjective) impression: While it was on a US server, my connection to it was noticeably slower, compared to the UK server based website version in my native (identical in terms of everything, but language). Now that it's been moved…
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I've moved my cycling website to a UK server. Any chance of US/Canada, and Australia based guys to click on a few pages and let me know if it has any problems loading? Don't really care about split-seconds, as long as it loads "norma…
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From what I could tell, when using Cloudflare, you can't get the server's IP, even when you are redirected to domain.com/cpanel. Of course, whm.domain.com, cpanel.domain.com etc. are disabled (aren't resolved through DNS), and mail.d…
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(Quote) How much of a "hacking" risk does leaving those available pose? A friend got warned about these for their website, and asked me if it could be blocked somehow. I suppose a good, strong password, with any decent provider (that bloc…
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(Quote) Yes - .htaccess from user's cPanel account doesn't help. Is that a normal thing to ask the provider? Can it be done on a per-customer level? I would expect it to require a server restart at least.
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They want more money. Makes sense. :) I've made a step-by-step tutorial for website cloning, or migration, using the free version of the All-in-One WP Migration plugin: https://io.bikegremlin.com/19100/all-in-one-wp-migration/ @Ympker came up…
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From what I could tell, Windscribe offers a port-forwarding configuration for their dedicated IP. And they allow the use of multiple devices, which is convenient for me, at times. Without using any discounts, it costs 4$ per month (regular price) -…
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(Quote) Inline CSS leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side...
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(Quote) Good points, and worth stressing. Yes, even all those tools won't make you a good content writer. But they can help. Especially with the technical stuff. SEO plugins, for example, can do the basic checks: are the keywords added to the t…
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AIO was very limited in its free version when I last tried it - but that was 6 years ago, so take this with a bucket of salt. Pro version was praised by some developers I consider to be very good. I've given up on Yoast since their indexables …
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For nonsense stuff, I use one nonsense Gmail account (that I log into once in a few months and delete everything).
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(Quote) I passed with a Serbian address (and all the other data - like phone etc.), in spite of using a "foreign IP address" through a VPN. Maybe just lucky? :astonished:
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I use what people who I communicate with use. In my country, it's Viber in 90% of the cases. Followed by the Facebook Messenger. Always on silent. I reply when I'm in front of a PC.
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(Quote) Will get to write a review, but no affiliate income. Sucks! :) https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/55089/#Comment_55089 And, if I'm very happy with the service and praise it a lot, people will still suspect it of being a …
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Thank you all for taking the time and explaining the options. For now, I have opted to use Windscribe. Seems like the least hassle to get what I need. Seems stable and fast for now. 4$ per month is what it took. Decided to start playing with VPSs o…
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(Quote) No, its more stupid than that. :) To use WP-CLI, one needs SSH access. In order to provide SSH access, many shared/reseller hosting providers ask: "OK, just give us one IP that you are going to connect to it with". I often work f…
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(Quote) Was thinking more along the lines of a poorly secured/managed VPS getting used for sending cat-pics to all the LES members, without me even knowing. I don't see the danger for my computer getting much greater than without a VPS used as…
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(Quote) Thanks - I've just read the fine print. Suppose it's not a huge security risk. Would still be using passwords, and other precautions. To sum it up, as it is for now, if I got it right: Option a) Windscribe - out of the box (VPN),…
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(Quote) Sorry if it's a stupid question - but in terms of VPS security - patches, updates, firewall? Is that a set-and-forget thing if I just use debian/ubuntu and install&configure wireguard?
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(Quote) I'll edit the original post - My knowledge & experience with configuring and managing a VPS is next to none. Would like to avoid any (potential) problems for myself, and/or for the VPS provider. :) This doesn't exclude a VPS a…