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Tag Archives: Cloudflare
WordPress 7.1 Broke WP Rocket: The Fatal Error and the Plugin Problem
WordPress 7.1 was released on August 19, 2026. Soon afterward, websites running WP Rocket began experiencing a fatal PHP error that could take the entire website offline, including the WordPress administration area.
WP Rocket released a fix the next day.
But the incident has become more than a story about one plugin needing an update. The problem had been publicly reported on GitHub to WP Rocket on July 6, while WordPress 7.1 was still in development. The report included
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Posted in Compare Website Builders, Technology in the News
Tagged alpha version, Cloudflare, critical issue, fatal error, fatal typerror, GitHub, plugin compatibility issues, plugin issues, third-party plugins, WordPress, wordpress 7.1, wordpress compatibility issues, wordpress development cycle, wordpress plugin, WordPress updates, wordpress updates broke website, wp rocket
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The Hidden Domain Name Lock-In: Which Registrars Restrict Nameservers?
When buying a domain name, most website owners assume they can point it wherever they choose. However, depending on where you register your domain, you might run into an unexpected limitation: some registrars do not allow you to change your nameservers.
Instead of simply updating your nameservers to point to a new web host, you are forced to manually manage individual DNS records or transfer the domain out entirely. Many platform-operated registrars enforce these restrictions, keeping your DNS tied to
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Posted in Domain Names
Tagged A records, buy domain name, Cloudflare, Cloudflare registrar, CNAMEs, cpanel, DKIM, DNS management, DNS propagation, dns records, domain names, domain portability, domain registrars, domain transfer, email authentication, mx records, nameservers, platform lock-in, SPF, web hosting, whm, Wix, Wix domain
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How to Connect a Custom Domain to a Free Website (No Coding Required)
If you bought a custom domain name from a domain provider like Wix, GoDaddy, Squarespace, or Namecheap to start a simple website or blog, you may have run into an annoying surprise: all the "free" website builders charge a monthly subscription fee just to let you connect your own domain name - except for one. Ironically, it's the one that got out of the domain name selling business years ago.
If you're on a tight budget, a
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Posted in Compare Website Builders
Tagged Cloudflare, custom domain, github pages, godaddy, Google Sites, namecheap, squarespace, vercel, Wix
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The AI Scraping Free-for-All Is Over: Welcome to the Era of Licensing (2026)
Quick Summary: The 2026 AI Licensing Blueprint
🚨 The Crisis: AI "Zero-Click" answers are draining traffic.
🎯 The Goal: Protect your data from "Training" bots while staying visible to "Search" bots.
🛡️ The Defense: Layer Cloudflare over your UltimateWB site to block "stealth" scrapers at the edge.
💰 The Payday: Use RSL 1.0 and TollBit to turn your content into a licensed asset.
🛑 Bottom Line: Stop being the "raw material" for AI for free. Lock the door and set
Posted in AI, Technology in the News
Tagged .htaccess, AI bots, AI crawlers, AI scraping, AI Tollbooths, ai training, AI user agents, apache, Appen, Axel Springer, bandwidth, bots, Business Insider, cdn, chatgpt, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Pay-Per-Crawl, community website, Condé Nast, content delivery network, cpu, crawl, Defined.ai, engagement, Google AI, google ai overviews, Google AI snippets, indexing, lawsuits, legal compliance, license.xml, licensing, litigation, llm, meta, News Corp, No-AI meta tags, OpenAI, pay-per-crawl, perplexity, Politico, RAG, Really Simple Licensing, reddit, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, robots.txt, RSL, search engine optimization, search engine traffic, seo, seo ranking, seo rankings, server-level rules, social website, stack overflow, stealth bots, TollBit, Vogue, Wall Street Journal, Wired, xai
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Pros and Cons of Hosting Static Websites for Free: GitHub Pages, Netlify, and Cloudflare Pages
Pros, Cons, and How They Compare to UltimateWB
If you’re building a static website - a portfolio, blog, landing page, or documentation site - you’ve probably seen claims that you can host it completely free.
And you can.
Platforms like GitHub Pages, Netlify, and Cloudflare Pages all offer free static website hosting, often with global CDNs and HTTPS included. But “free” comes with important trade-offs - especially once your site grows beyond a simple static project.
Let’s
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Posted in Ask David!, Compare Website Builders, Web Hosting
Tagged backend, cdn, CDN hosting, Cloudflare, cloudflare pages, css, custom domain, database, dynamic website, dynamic website builder, fast website, free hosting, free static website hosting, free web hosting, GitHub, github pages, hosting comparison, html, https, jamstack, javascript, jekyll, landing pages, netlify, scalability, server logic, static vs dynamic websites, static website, static website hosting, web hosting, web hosting limits, website builders
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AI Gone Rogue Again? Perplexity Bots Bypass IP Blocks and Robots.txt
Just months after Claude’s so-called “blackmail” stunt fueled fears about agentic AI models, the web is facing another wave of rogue behavior. This time, Perplexity AI is under fire for sneaking past website blocks, disguising its bots, and scraping content without permission. While Claude sparked debates about AI ethics and control, Perplexity highlights a more widespread, everyday threat to publishers: unconsented content harvesting at massive scale.
Ignoring Robots.txt
Cloudflare, which recently expanded into bot management, reported that Perplexity’s crawlers often
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