How Plus Addressing Can Prevent Spam
I noticed recently that I appear to be getting a lot more spam to my mailbox than normal. I don’t usually share my email address if I can help it, so wasn’t sure what was happening. Some digging was required.
Tag: web
How To Secure WordPress
WordPress is everywhere, so keeping your site safe is really important. If you want to know how to secure WordPress, this post is a good place to start.
More or Less WordPress Theme
I recently migrated my website away from Ghost and decided to go back to WordPress. Mainly so I didn’t have to maintain a dedicated server for the website. Problem was, I loved the theme I had on my Ghost site, so I wanted to emulate the look at closely as possible.
Why You Should Own Your Own Domain
Unless you have been living in a bubble for the last 20 years, the Internet is probably a very large part of your life. From establishing an online identity, to having a personally branded email address that’s easy to share. Owning your own domain name has a lot of advantages.
Stop Spam for Free with MX GuardDog
In my last few articles, I’ve been talking about setting up your own Zimbra mail server, as well as making some changes to stop outgoing mail being delivered as spam. However, we haven’t spoken about...
How To Stop Outgoing Mail On Zimbra From Being Delivered As Spam
Moving on from my previous article on how to setup Zimbra, this article will show you how to stop outgoing mail on Zimbra from being delivered as spam. After all, what’s the point in hosting your own...
Build the Perfect Web Server
Anyone who works with websites will know how incredibly hard it is to find a good host, at a good price. Unfortunately, the market is saturated with crappy hosts, who provide crappy support, and even...
Digital Ocean Review
Over the last year or so, I’ve been using Digital Ocean to host all of my web servers, and in that time, I haven’t had a single issue! Not one. Nada. If you know what to expect from them, they can be...
How To Use FTP On A Chromebook
Chromebook’s are brilliant. They’re cheap, quick, lightweight, and generally awesome. However, for power users, such as myself, Chromebook’s do lack some features. In this article, I’ll show you how t...
Dreamhost - The Worst Web Host I've Ever Used
I’m sure most of the people reading this post will know that I run a pretty popular blog, RefuGeeks. It’s really great that RefuGeeks is growing in popularity, but the side-effect to that is that I’m...
My Name is Kev Quirk and I'm an Addict
For some people it’s drugs, alcohol, gambling, even sex. But for me it’s domain names, seriously, my addition to gather ever more short and clever domain names is getting out of hand (but shhhh, my gi...
Bringing it All In-House
Everyone loves “the cloud“, don’t they? Having someone else manage all of your online services for you just seems like heaven – especially if they’re free. You don’t have to worry about anything, just...
OwnCloud is Awesome
I’ve been on the hunt for a valid replacement to Dropbox for quite some time now. Dropbox is expensive, Ubuntu One is unreliable and Google Drive doesn’t have a linux client. I researched pretty much...