Why Businesses Lose Customers Online
We examine what hinders small businesses from attracting customers online—from outdated websites to weak positioning
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Backups Stored for 3, 7, or 30 Days: How to Choose Backup Retention Depth
We show how to calculate backup retention time based on detection delay, decision time for restoration, and snapshot interval—without guessing.
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WordPress 7.1.4: What to Check Before an Urgent Update
On October 28, WordPress released 7.1.4 with security fixes. We examine the affected branches, the safe update sequence, and acceptance criteria for sites, stores, and integrations.
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Webhook Signature Is Valid: How to Stop a Replay of a Correct Request
We analyze a replay attack on a correctly signed webhook: signing the timestamp and nonce, verifying the time window, and showing why worker local memory loses protection after a restart.
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HTTP 200, but the page is essentially missing: how to check for soft 404
We examine how to distinguish a soft 404 from a standard error, verify the exact URL in Google and Yandex, and select the correct response: 200, 301, 404, or 410.
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A Website in 5 Days: Is It Real?
We explain how to launch a modern website in just a few days without building from scratch, and why a quick start does not hinder future scaling.
Cloudflare Workers Skipped and Duplicated Cron Triggers: What to Check After the Outage
The October 26–27 incident affected part of the Cloudflare Workers schedules: jobs could be delayed, skipped, or launched again. We examine how to perform a safe reconciliation without a mass restart.
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One Limit for Multiple Workers: Testing the Shared Token Bucket API
On a deterministic model, we compare local and shared token buckets: two workers receive four 429 responses with local limits, while a single shared limiter distributes eight requests without exceeding the limit.
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Node.js Vulnerability CVE-2026-111497: What to Update and Check Immediately
A Brotli decompression error can cause application crashes, disclosure of data from memory, or code execution. We list the fixed Node.js versions and the procedure for checking servers, containers, and integrations. Separate section: important update for Windows PHP builds.
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One Password for All Accounts: Why It Is Dangerous
Using the same password for email, social networks, and work services can jeopardize multiple accounts at once.
URL is in the Sitemap but not in search results: what to check in order
We examine five distinct page states—Sitemap entry, current response, crawling, indexing, and impressions—and compile a separate checklist for Google and Yandex.
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API Delta: How to Prevent Double-Counting of Product Quantities
On the tested model, we compare the change in product quantity against a record of its absolute value. A single operation_id prevents the same command from being applied twice, while version checking rejects stale snapshots after new product movements.
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