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Nearly every host promises "daily backups included", but that phrase tells you almost nothing about whether you could actually recover your site on a bad day. Here is what really gets backed up, why retention matters more than frequency, whether the backup can be restored, and how 365i's Timeline Backups handle files, databases and mailboxes without a plugin.
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DNS records control where your website loads and where your email goes. Get one wrong and visitors see an error page, or emails vanish. This guide walks through every record type, from A records and CNAMEs to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, with instructions that work at any registrar.
UK domains take 10 minutes and cost nothing. International domains take 5 to 7 days and add 12 months to your renewal. Here's exactly how to do both, from backing up your DNS records to verifying everything works after the move.
378.5 million domains registered globally means your first choice is probably gone. Here's how to check what you're actually dealing with, find a better alternative, buy it through the aftermarket, or grab it for £35 when it expires through Nominet's drop catching process.
8.4 million businesses use .co.uk. 1.4 million use .uk. After 12 years, the shorter extension never overtook the original. Here's what Nominet's data actually says, when each extension makes sense, and why most UK businesses should register both.
A cleanup script with an empty API filter deleted 1,100 BYOIP prefixes from Cloudflare's global routing table on 20 February. It's the third time in four weeks that a major cloud provider has had automation destroy production infrastructure.
Your XML sitemap is the best inventory of what Google knows about your site. Our free Post Sitemap to CSV tool discovers every sitemap, fetches all page titles, and exports the lot as a spreadsheet. No sign-up, no page limits.
Over 150,000 domains expire every day. Our free WHOIS Lookup tool queries RDAP servers to show registration dates, expiry, nameservers, EPP status codes, registrar info, and DNSSEC for any domain. No sign-up needed.
73% of websites have robots.txt errors that hurt their search visibility. Our free Robots.txt Checker parses every crawl rule, lets you test URL paths against them, and flags the mistakes that block search engines and AI crawlers from your best content.
One HTTP image on an HTTPS page is all it takes to kill your padlock icon and trigger browser warnings. Our free mixed content scanner checks your pages in seconds, grades your SSL setup A to F, and shows you exactly which resources need fixing.
Your emails might not be arriving, and your domain's DNS could be the reason. Our free DNS Lookup tool checks every record type, grades your SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX and DNSSEC setup, and flags problems in under 10 seconds. No sign-up required.
Your SSL padlock doesn't protect against clickjacking, XSS, or downgrade attacks. Security headers do. Our free HTTP Header Inspector grades your headers A to F, traces redirect chains, and flags server version leaks. Here's what to check and how to fix it.
We built eight free SEO tools and gave them away. HTTP header grading, DNS health checks, HTTPS inspection, meta tag analysis, robots.txt testing, WHOIS lookups, WordPress security scanning, and sitemap-to-CSV export. No sign-up, no limits, no catch.
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