Unsure where to start when it comes to domain name registrars, domain name registration, and dealing with domain name server (DNS) hosts?
I can’t blame you. It can be confusing.
Over 20+ years of experience has provided me with stories and lessons learned about how to manage your domain name registration and domain registrar activities.
In his How to Take Your WordPress Site Security to the Next Level online presentation at the Rochester WordPress Users Meetup, senior software engineer (and my friend) Chris Wiegman, shared practical advice and actionable steps sites owners can take to protect their sites from attackers.
While the focus was on WordPress sites, many tips Chris shared apply to every site on the web.
As well as anyone who uses the web.
What I liked most about Chris’s talk: he didn’t only focus on website protection.
Chris emphasized the importance of making sure your:
are secure.
You want to protect your data, privacy, and the people who visit your website.
He recommended site owners think beyond only site security and consider all the other ways to improve security.
Here are my takeaways from Chris’s presentation. Continue reading Takeaways from How to Take Your WordPress Site Security to the Next Level
Imagine you’ve moved your website to a new web host, a faster host with better customer support.
Which means you need to update your domain records to point to your new host.
You log into your domain registrar and update the records for the new host.
And wait.
You know it can take a while for the changes to propagate (the time it takes for your changes to take effect).
Read on to learn about DNS and steps you can take to help propagation to go faster. Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Flush Cache at DNS Hosts for Faster DNS Record Changes