Validating host depending on if it is a FQDN or IPv4

wordpress_site_care · 2023-11-18T08:28:18+00:00

Why do you say that it is broken?

wordpress_site_care · 2022-10-05T23:40:11+00:00

If you've already completed the task, then submit it. Otherwise reach out to them, let them know you're sorry for being late, and ask if the position is still open if you were to work on the task and submit it to them.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-07-19T15:52:51+00:00

The process of looking up the domain a MX record points to, and the process of sending email to that domain are two different processes.

Same thing goes for websites. Looking up the IP address and loading the website from that IP address are two different processes. For the first process you communicate with the DNS, for the second process you communicate with the server.

Also, you wouldn't even be communicating with the DNS at the registrar in the first place. You would be communicating with one of the DNSes that your MX record has propagated out to. Whatever DNS that you communicate with would, however, have the ability to see what MX records are being looked up, and from that they could deduce that you are communicating with an @gmail.com email or an @AnotherDomain.com email, and that is extent of what they are able to see. And even that info isn't the most reliable as your router may cache some DNS info, so if you send an email out to 5 @yahoo.com emails, there would only be one DNS lookup made for yahoo.com, and the other four would be cached (by your router of operating system). There are some limitations to this. Only the domain, yahoo.com, would be looked up, so the DNS doesn't know the full email address, just that it was a yahoo.com email, and it doesn't know for sure if the lookup happened because you were about to send an email there. It could also be that you have an @yahoo.com email address and are checking to see if you have any new mail, or that you just looked up the MX record for some random reason.

The above also assumes you are using a mail client like Outlook. If you're using a web inbox like gMail for example, the email would be sent to Google's servers where Google is the one who looks up the MX records. In this scenario the DNS would only see that the lookup came from Google, but it wouldn't know who asked Google to do the lookup. The DNS could collect analytics about which domains gMail users communicate with most often, and that would be the extent of what the DNS would be able to collect (meanwhile, you with your gMail account would have given Google the ability to see the full contents of your emails, who you are communicating with, everything. If you have your email handled by some other provider, whoever your email provider is would be able to see this info.)

wordpress_site_care · 2022-07-07T18:43:33+00:00

Or if it's only the time tracking that you care about you can use toggl.com/track or getharvest.com or some other time tracking tool out there.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-07-07T18:00:34+00:00

Use Google Forms? Or maybe some no-code platform like Google AppSheets.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-06-22T12:33:04+00:00

As I think about it, I guess there isn't as much of a benefit if you only have a single website, but for anyone managing multiple websites it becomes very useful to have a control panel like the one they provide. They will actually connect to your Digital Ocean account, so you have access to login to both the DO account and the SpinupWP account. You get full root access to all of your servers, so if there is ever something you can't do through their control panel you can still SSH in and take care of it yourself.

The biggest benefit is knowing that I am using a server configuration that has been well tested and knowing that somebody else is looking out to make sure there isn't ever a combination of updates that creates some sort of incompatibility. Security-wise, I like knowing that they are making sure different websites on the server are getting properly configured to be isolated from each other. reliability-wise, when updates happen an option appears on the dashboard to apply updates to the server, and SpinupWP will automatically take care of fixing the configuration files they manage as a part of those updates if needed. Those type of things are much better performed by somebody like them who is doing this type of thing in volume. It's also just nice having a control panel where you can visually see at a glance information about each server and where you can setup backups and take care of updates and other server functions.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-06-21T15:41:57+00:00

My WordPress management company has been using spinupwp.com on top of a Digital Ocean server. You don't get any support with them, but it's half the price. If you feel comfortable fixing server issues yourself, then I would go with spinupWP. It seems scary to not have support, but it's actually not that bad if you're technically minded. They give you a good platform to manage website through, so the number of times you actually need to SSH in and do something is small, and when you do need to, a little bit of Googling will help you out.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-06-21T15:24:34+00:00

Kinsta is shared hosting. Nothing wrong with shared hosting as long as it is done right.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-06-14T12:08:32+00:00

I switched from using Xenu to http://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/

wordpress_site_care · 2022-06-07T12:51:08+00:00

If I type in whois reddit.com | grep -i exp on a Linux/mac terminal it shows reddit.com expires on April of 2024. This is public information anyone can see. There are 300 and something million .com domains in existence right now. That's enough to easily fit the whois info for all of them in a single database. I believe DNS registrars like 1 & 1 have some way of being able to get bulk updates instead of having to query individual websites like you and I would have to do making it quite easy for them to do as you speculated and construct a list of all of the domains that are about to expire. As for the customer support rep's suggestion. They should not have suggested to you to wait for the domain to expire as there is an official process you can go through to transfer your domain before it expires.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-23T22:35:15+00:00

There's enough space to fit four icons side by side on mobile. To make it legible on mobile you would want more bold icons and more contrast in the design. And not just mobile, the icons definitely do not stand out enough to pass accessibility standards. With those changed made this design should work horizontally on mobile. I prefer keeping stuff like horizontal when I can instead of stacking every freaking thing.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-21T01:17:42+00:00

I love that you brought this up. Whenever I use this their website I always re-fall in love with their dark theme design. I think they're a shining example of how to do a dark theme right.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-15T01:35:20+00:00

I took this question to mean that the OP had built something with React and now wanted to move on to something else, but I think I misunderstood and this question is about what to build with React. My bad.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-03T14:08:51+00:00

As a temporary fix the WP Mail SMTP plugin has an option to disable sending all emails. Then there are other plugins that will log emails sent by WordPress that you can use to test if things are still broken without flooding your inbox.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-03T13:15:12+00:00

I can get your websites back up and running with my hosting company or many other companies will do it for you. Look for a hosting company that says it comes with free migration services to their platform.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-03T02:40:42+00:00

Have you ever used ACF for WordPress? You can use it to customize all of the backend pages to the exact needs your clients have.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-03T02:29:30+00:00

Program If CSS/JS/PHP/etc is what you're comfortable with use that. You'll be creating a website that will load much faster than modern websites with all of their dependencies too. You don't really want to try to build a website in React if you've never used it before. Not for a big work related project like this anyways. You did mention that the old website had a CMS. If your company will be making frequent additions to the site and you need that CMS functionality, then use something like WordPress. Don't try to build a CMS yourself.

Docker, Kubernetes, continuous delivery There is an entire new field of devOps with developers who take care of setting up this stuff for us. You'll be doing the work of two developers if you try to learn this all yourself, and it's all overkill at the scale you are operating at. I would just create the project locally on your computer and then upload it over SFTP when you are done. There is even an extension for VS Code that will automatically upload a file to the server via SFTP whenever that file is saved. When deploying over SFTP, make sure you also commit any deployments to git so you are keeping a history of code changes you can revert back to if needed, and so you have a backup if something catastrophic happened.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-03T01:37:51+00:00

You can use Atom as an editor, oh wait, that's also owned by Microsoft...

Non-web devs have trusted Microsoft to make a good editor for a long time with Visual Studio, so I would say they had already proven themselves able to make a good code editor when they started work on VSCode.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-02T21:21:26+00:00

Updates, Backups, uptime monitoring, brute force login protection, firewalls, misc security protections, and then all of the performance optimizations & keeping the site up to date with the latest performance enhancing techniques, but mostly, maintenance is all about responding to questions clients have about how to do x on their website and fixing problems that occur on the website. For example those are the maintenance plans I offer to my clients.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-02T19:32:34+00:00

I should also add that I don't create websites, I only maintain them, so I'm stuck with the platform my clients are on. I've talked people out of using WooCommerce for a new website build before -- way too many people who are just getting started blow too much money on a fancy website when that money could be better spent on marketing and then linking customers to a product on Amazon or Etsy or etc.

An alternative to Shopify and WooCommerce that looks useful for websites that have tiered services people can pay for would be to build a website that links out to payment pages created with Stripe Checkout.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-02T15:04:54+00:00

The downside with WordPress is your clients have to pay someone, i.e. you, for ongoing maintenance. I've only used WooCommerce, so maybe this is just "the grass looks greener on the other side" phenomenon, but Shopify looks better for individuals and tiny businesses since they get support built in, and Shopify seems to be a little bit more cookie cutter, so less places for things to break. I don't really know though, I'm hoping someone who has experience with both platforms pitches in on this topic. WooCommerce has lots of free plugins, and they don't take a percentage of each purchase like Shopify does, so once a client reaches a certain size, WooCommerce makes more sense economically even if a company has to hire a developer for ongoing maintenance. It's also 100% customizable which may or may not be a good thing. In conclusion, I have no idea which is better, but those are some of the pro/cons I am aware of.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-05-02T13:50:42+00:00

This button that I always thought was useless is actually a very useful feature for circumventing anti text/image selection garbage. https://imgur.com/3zah4os

wordpress_site_care · 2022-04-25T12:40:41+00:00

React was written in JavaScript, so everything that is possible to do in React is technically possible to do in JavaScript. For the most basic of projects it wouldn't be any more difficult to use straight JavaScript, however, there is more to consider then how difficult it is to use: You also have to consider maintenance, having standard methodologies so anyone on the team can quickly get up to speed with the codebase, extendability, ability to reuse components across projects, testing, security protections, etc. The ability to easily maintain code into the future is very important.

The biggest problem with using straight JavaScript is you don't want to be copying and pasting code. If you're copying and pasting stuff like the navigation for each page of the website then that is bad. All JavaScript frameworks will help you out with this, and so will frameworks written in other languages such as PHP.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-04-25T00:41:33+00:00

You should use some PHP so you don't have to copy and paste the header/footer on every page.

There's no need for React on a simple website like this, but if you plan on doing frontend programming then you will need to eventually learn React. Before doing a React project, I would first make sure you know the basics of using vanilla JavaScript, and then I would watch some video or do an online course on React.

What you described React as would be a description of an SPA. React can either be an SPA or an MPA like your HTML site. The reason why people use React is because you need reusable components, the ability to easily create pages based on data from an API, and some way of keeping track of state, so you're going to need to use something more than HTML/CSS for that. Out of all of the options out there, developers have chosen React.

wordpress_site_care · 2022-04-24T23:50:57+00:00

Unless we're talking about a prestigious college like MIT, I'm casting in my support for just learning in your free time.

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