With the advancement in technology, the internet, and web-based applications, the number of smartphone users has increased manifold. This growing number of smartphone users worldwide is almost half of the world’s population now — 4 Billion. According to data forecasts, it will grow several hundred million in coming years. Smartphone…

A sad story about how a highly authoritative website with quality content became an orphan and continues to surf the internet alone. A Genuine Wish to Revive Abandoned Website: My Passion Project Website designs fascinate me. I cannot help appreciating the site designs and the designer’s efforts. I encounter a…

Or How to Lose $10M by “Doing Something Stupid”. — Enlightening story of Flow founder Andrew Wilkinson about how he wanted to beat the competition focusing on organic growth — but it turned out that he came with a knife to a gunfight. Grow with the Flow! “When I started MetaLab in 2006, the idea of handing anything off seemed insane”. — said Andrew…

This example shows how to generate app credentials in Google account and settings for PHPMailer to use when sending via Google’s Gmail servers. 1. Creating credentials in your Gmail account Login to your Google account which you are going to use for sending emails Your account should have 2-Step Verification enabled. …

This guide shows you how to set up Apache and PHP on a Compute Engine virtual machine instance on GCP. The instructions are for Ubuntu 20.04 Linux distribution (goes with PHP 7.4 in its default repositories). Creating a virtual machine instance Go to your Google Cloud Console and click Compute Engine > VM Instances > Create Create…

This guide provides step by step instructions that will help you to install the auto-renewing Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate using automated client Certbot for your site hosted on GCP. Make sure that you have: ∘ A running VM instance with the Apache server on Ubuntu 20.04 installed. ∘ Your…

There are several ways to transfer files to your VM instance, using WinSCP for Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) is one of them. Create SSH keys to the instance using PuTTY. Download putty.exe, if you don’t have it. Open PuTTY Key Generator Generate the keys In Key comment field create a user name for your connection Create Key passphrase (optional) Save private key on…

Cyber attacks on WordPress websites have become more sophisticated than ever and many companies, no matter the size, are becoming susceptible to these attacks. WordPress websites should not be left unmaintained Once a WordPress website is built, many of us don’t fully realize that there are many critical steps that…