How the WoodCentral Archive section works
Overview The system is a static inverted-index search engine for your legacy PHP articles. It reads .php files from the…
How CDNs lower the cost of being online
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a globally distributed network of servers that sits between a website and its visitors,…
Using Gmail and other accounts inside SmarterMail
Step 1: Prepare Gmail (important) If your Gmail account uses 2-Step Verification (most do), you must create an App Password.…
Why modern email works better in the browser
Using a webmail-based interface like SmarterMail instead of allowing everyone to choose their own mail client isn’t about taking options…
Deterministic per-site passwords
Deterministic per-site passwords solve reuse without requiring memorization of dozens of random strings. The trick is to make the algorithm:…
ForkBB vs. WebBBS
ForkBB is effectively a modern successor to old Perl scripts like WebBBS, combining simplicity, speed, scalability, and standards compliance, while…
ForkBB vs. vBulletin and XenForo
ForkBB scales exceptionally well — response times and resource usage are minimal. It is not limited to “small sites”; it…
Importing an SQL dump to a remote server
Below is the standard, reliable command-line approach used by system administrators to import a MariaDB (or MySQL-compatible) SQL dump from…
Why modernizing legacy websites is critical: front-end, back-end, and security updates
Many websites today still rely on legacy code, outdated layouts, and server-side scripts that haven’t been touched in years. While…