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Resolving Google Safe Browsing Issues On Your Website

Google Safe Browsing is made to protect devices by showing a warning to users when they attempt to request some dangerous website or download dangerous files.

It also notifies webmasters when their websites are compromised and helps them diagnose, resolve the problem so that their visitors stay safer.

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Importing MySQL Databases Via SSH Command Line On Self Managed Servers

SANGKRIT.net not only offers you Managed and Fully Managed servers but it also lets you subscribe self-managed server option which is only recommended for command line experts. Because self-managed servers are without a control panel such as cPanel, Plesk, or Simple Control Panel.

These self-managed servers do not have phpMyAdmin installed which is used for managing MySQL databases. So in order to manage databases, you are required to use the SSH command line to import .SQL backup files.

This post guides you through importing MySQL databases via SSH.

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Impact Of Network Latency On Websites And The Importance Of Traceroute Check

Network latency is one of the main reasons for a slow website. Sometimes these issues increase the load times of any website. You can test this by accessing the site from a different network.

Traceroute is a tool that allows you to check for network latency. It traces the path from the computer to the server you are accessing.

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Key Points To Improve Your Website’s Performance

Knowing how to improve your website’s performance is important. Popular tools that help you in this are: YslowPagespeed, and WebPageTest.org to diagnose poor Web page performance. For more information on using tools to determine site slowness, see Website speed tests.

The post discusses main issues responsible for making your website slow. Read about them to know how they relate to your website.

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Pagespeed Modules That Automatically Optimizes Your Website

Linux-based Web Hosting accounts at SANGKRIT.net can use mod_pagespeed, which is a free software module for optimizing web pages and their resources for better performance. For more information, see Google’s documentation.

These can be enabled on your cPanel hosting via .htaccess file. For instance, see the following example of the code which you can include in your .htaccess file to enable the Extend Cache function:

<IfModule pagespeed_module>
   ModPagespeed on
   ModPagespeedEnableFilters extend_cache
</IfModule>

Following functions can be enabled using the ModPagespeedEnableFilters directive:

Function pagespeed.conf Code
Extend Cache extend_cache
Collapse Whitespace collapse_whitespace
Combine CSS combine_css
Move CSS to HEAD move_css_to_head
Elide Attributes elide_attributes
Remove Comments remove_comments

 

The above-given table also links mod_pagespeed function at Google for more information. There are more features of mod_pagespeed, you can also enable the following directives on your website’s .htaccess file located in your site’s root directory:

  • ModPagespeedDisallow
  • ModPagespeedAllow
  • ModPagespeedMapOriginDomain
  • ModPagespeedMapRewriteDomain

For more information about using these directives, see Using mod_pagespeed.

System at SANGKRIT.net is still testing any mod_pagespeed functions not yet listed for compatibility, performance, and reliability as mod_pagespeed is still in a beta offering, so the features might change.

Keep Track Of Vulnerable Updates On Your WordPress Website

It is important to keep themes and plugins updated on your WordPress website as hackers are always looking up for security issues to take advantage of it and plugin developers are not sitting bored to push up some unnecessary update, most of the updates are made to fix security issues. That is why you notice some minor WordPress versions with security release title.

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What Is Increased Time To 1st Byte? How It Affects Your Website’s Speed?

An increased time to 1st byte means your website is running too many SQL queries or non-optimized SQL queries which can also include server-side calls to third-party APIs.

If you’re a WordPress user, there are a number of plugins you can check out to decrease the number of database queries and speed up your website. And if you are not using WordPress then you need to check and optimize your database then use some website cache functionality. For this, you may buy expert’s support via system@sangkrit.net on per hour per terminal basis. Continue reading What Is Increased Time To 1st Byte? How It Affects Your Website’s Speed?

Playing Videos Using Popup Lightbox In Your WordPress Website

Earlier we have posted on inserting links to popup in WordPress, now same thing can be done for displaying videos in a lightbox overlay.

FA Video Popup makes use of the native WordPress Video Shortcode and MediaElements.js JavaScript library already present in WordPress since 3.6+ versions to let you add popup video links in post or anywhere on your website.

You can add links by placing shortcode and when the link is clicked, inserted video starts to play in a responsive lightbox overlay.

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How Text Compression On SANGKRIT.net Improves Your Website’s Speed?

The websites having no text compression are comparatively slower than the websites with active text compression. Hence, if you don’t have text compression turned on, your webpage is going to be slow.

SANGKRIT.net now has this on by default on all web hosting plans, so your if your page is suffering from this, it’s either because of third-party objects, or it somehow got disabled on your web hosting account and now you need to re-enable mod_deflate.

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Identifying An FTP Compromise & Protecting Your Website

There are some signs that your website’s been hacked, including the ones listed here but certainly not limited to:

  1. You find bad code inserted onto your website
  2. You find new files/directories with strange names on your hosting

However, there are many types of compromises, each of which has its own calling cards. They may include malicious injections where attackers can place code on your website that can contain malware or phishing content.

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Starting A Budget Website Is Far More Better Than Any Free Website

Hosting your website on Blogger, Weebly or Wix etc is free and they also give you a free domain which is actually a sub-domain. But their free is not free as in freedom. Such kind of website makes you look unprofessional, impacts your search rankings and you cannot make money from your website.

Having a website on someone else platform proves that you are not serious about your online presence. So even if you are just a hobby blogger, you should be serious about your website because you can earn from it.

By spending a little money you can have your own web space running your website on your own domain address such as yourwebsite.com which means that you are having your own web property and not a website owned and rented to you by some one else. This way you become the complete owner of your online presence.

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Start Your Online Store With WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the most popular and highly customizable eCommerce platform you can use for building your online business.

It is a free WordPress plugin that easily installs on your WordPress site and allows you to run a fully fleshed eCommerce website on your own without any technical/coding skills.

When WooCommerce is used with Managed WordPress at SANGKRIT.net takes ten to fifteen minutes to start a fully fleshed online store on the choice of your domain.

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Learn To Manage Your Websites On Your Own

You can reduce cost and easily start managing your websites on your own by using Managed WordPress as a complete online solution for your websites.

WordPress is no more a blogging platform, it is now fully fleshed website management system that lets you start most types of websites on your own without the need of hiring any expert.

The default WordPress dashboard is even easier to manage than you think – you simply start by affixing /wp-admin on your domain where the WordPress is installed then login to start customizing your website.

By spending a few minutes in dashboard will make you understand all its core functionalities.

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How To Add Shipping Cost Per Item, Per Shipping Class Or Per Order In WooCommerce?

Flat Rate Shipping, a free shipping method in your WooCommerce website enabled you to define a standard rate per item, per shipping class or per order. It works with Product Shipping Classes with more options and flexibility.

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Group Similar Ecommerce Products For Specific Shipping Methods In WooCommerce

Shipping classes in WooCommerce are used for grouping similar products and used by some shipping methods, such as Flat Rate Shipping etc to offer different rates to different product classes.

For instance – If you are using shipping classes, it becomes possible for you to create different flat rate costs for different product types such as bulky items and light items.

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Fix WooCommerce Image Size Issues On Your Ecommerce Website

Issues with featured product images is common on all ecommerce websites and market places, even Amazon and eBay are same in this regard. The reason is you can set a ratio for your product images and when someone uploads the images ignoring the format of featured images configured on your website, the display looks bad.

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How To Use WordPresss To Solve Customer Problems?

WordPress can be used as a platform to communicate with customers online to solve their problems or answer their queries.

Even with core WordPress features just blog posts, you can update customers on your newest offers, products and events etc. All blog posts provides you a comment form which can be used for threaded discussions on your website. (See – Start your WordPress website today)

But if you want some traditional problem solving way then you may use forums/message boards or support ticket options.

What is the difference between Forums and Support Tickets?

Forums are good for online public discussions, where one client raises a question, the experts provide the solution and the topic is kept open for others to participate in, share their experiences and provide better ideas.

Whereas Support Tickets works in private, where a client raises some issue which is then resolved by the expert and the discussion is kept private between the support agent and the customer.

What plugins you should make use of to interact with your clients?

bbPress is popular WordPress plugin for hosting forums on your website. It is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, web standards, and speed.

You can install bbPress on your WordPress site (Read – How to install plugin?) to start using it.

On the other side, most of the Support Ticket plugins provides you both free and premium versions. Free versions has certain limitations but you can use them as a stepping stone towards support ticketing system on your WordPress website.

WP Support Plus and JS Support Ticket are two good plugins to start Support Ticket Management on any simple WordPress installation. The plugins allow users to submit tickets and report problems or get product related support. It empowers users to set the problem status, priority and category of each ticket.

Once a ticket is submitted, it shows up on admin area dashboard where the site administrator or assigned support agent can further the discussion and resolve the client’s issue.