Articles & Guides
Useful resources for web developers and system administrators
Security
Website Security Check: The Complete Checklist
Website security check: the complete checklist. How to test any website online in 5 minutes — HTTPS, security headers, CSP, cookies, malware — plus a full owner's checklist with curl examples and a layer-by-layer summary table.
Security
Website Hacked: What to Do in the First Hour
Website hacked — what to do in the first hour: a minute-by-minute plan. Isolate the site, rotate all credentials, preserve logs, find the web shell and entry point, restore from a clean backup, and close the vulnerability. With commands, a 10-step checklist, and FAQ.
Networking
How to Check Ping: Internet, Server, and Website
How to check ping to a server, website, or your internet connection: the ping command on Windows, macOS, and Linux, online ping from another network location, a table of normal ping values, and a diagnostics checklist for high or unstable ping.
Networking
Cloudflare Blocked in Russia? Why Sites Fail and How to Fix It
Cloudflare blocked in Russia: why sites stall at 16 KB or fail on ECH, how to test from a Russian vantage point, and the DNS and CDN fixes that restore access.
Infrastructure
Email Not Arriving: A Checklist for Senders and Recipients
Email not arriving? A step-by-step checklist for senders and recipients: Spam folder, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX records, blacklists, bounce codes 550, 552, 554, greylisting. Includes a symptom-cause-fix table, dig commands, and answers to common questions.
DNS
How to Check a Domain's MX Record
How to check a domain's MX record: a DNS check or dig, what the priorities and an empty answer mean, common mail problems and the link to SPF/DKIM/DMARC.
Security
152-FZ Compliance Check: An Owner's Checklist
A self-check checklist for a website's 152-FZ compliance: policy, voluntary consent, cookie notice, data storage in Russia, Roskomnadzor notice, HTTPS.
SSL/TLS
Cannot Verify Server Certificate: What It Means and Fixes
What the "cannot verify the server certificate/identity" error means and how to fix it: name mismatch, expiry, self-signed, incomplete chain, revocation.
Security
CSP Blocked a Script: How to Read and Fix CSP Errors
How to read a CSP console error and fix it correctly: the script-src/connect-src directives, nonce and hash instead of unsafe-inline, and Report-Only mode.
DNS
How to Connect a Domain to Hosting: Step by Step
Two ways to connect a domain to hosting: change the NS servers or add an A record. Step by step, how long DNS takes to update, and how to confirm it worked.