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2 November 2026, 10:00 AM · 13 min

IoT Security for Small Businesses: Your Smart Equipment Is an Attack Surface

Overnight on November 1, attackers warmed up shop freezers in seven European countries, weeks after hundreds of French supermarkets were hit the same way. Here's how they got in and a seven-step plan for the connected eq

29 October 2026, 7:00 AM · 7 min

Vercel CI Is in Beta: What It Means for Next.js Teams on Vercel

Vercel now runs your CI, not just your builds. It uses your Turborepo setup to run only the checks a change affects, and it's built for coding agents to drive. Here's how it works, what it costs, its limits, and who shou

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27 October 2026, 4:27 PM · 14 min

WordPress Contact Form Not Sending Email? How to Fix It (and Stop Losing Leads)

If your WordPress form says “thank you” but nothing shows up in your inbox, you’re losing leads without knowing it. Here’s why it happens, how I test it in two minutes, and the fixes that actually last.

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26 October 2026, 10:30 AM · 14 min

Next.js and Vercel for Small Business: Faster Sites, Smaller Hosting Bills

No idle servers, no server patching, a global CDN in the box, and scaling that handles a busy Saturday on its own. Here's where the savings actually come from, what it costs, and when I'd still pick WordPress.

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24 October 2026, 12:30 PM · 9 min

HTTP/3 Vulnerability in QPACK: Should a Small Site Turn Off HTTP/3?

FoxIO found that tiny HTTP/3 requests can balloon server memory through QPACK header compression. Most of the big libraries are already patched. Here's what it means for cPanel, LiteSpeed, nginx, Cloudflare and Vercel si

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23 October 2026, 8:00 AM · 8 min

cPanel Price Increase 2027: Stay, Switch, or Go Cloud?

cPanel's prices go up again on December 16. Here's what the new list costs, how the cheaper panels compare, and when the cloud actually makes sense.

Infrastructure

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22 October 2026, 12:05 PM · 28 min

How to Rotate API Keys After a Breach Without Downtime (A Runbook)

Railway's preliminary report confirms that at most 1.85% of workspaces had environment variables potentially exposed. Here's what Railway confirmed, and how I rotate keys with an overlap window so nothing goes down.

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21 October 2026, 9:21 PM · 7 min

Salesforce Is Retiring SOAP login(): Move Your PHP Integration to OAuth Before Summer '27

If your PHP code still signs in to Salesforce with a username, password and security token, it has a deadline. Here's how to find it and what to move it to.