I was getting 525 and 520 errors on a number of assets, mostly .svg files, not always the same ones. So I thought I’d find out a bit more about what was going on and see what I could do to solve this. Cloudflare describes a 525 as SSL handshake failed, and suggested looking at…
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Setting up Cloudflare and WordPress
I’m happy to announce that have a new course live on Skillshare and Udemy… Setting up Cloudflare and WordPress This course follows on from my courses on setting up Cloudflare for website security and performance and setting up Cloudflare – page rules deep dive, which go through all the Cloudflare settings, explaining what’s available and…
Image optimisation with ShortPixel
One thing that I’ve been doing a lot lately is helping people with their WordPress website performance. You may have noticed I’ve done some Cloudflare courses and they have come off the back of this (can’t recommend Cloudflare enough, by the way!). One of the Pro features of Cloudflare is called “Polish”, which promises to optimise…
Setting up Cloudflare – Page Rules deep dive
I recently announced that the two courses that I wrote for Skillshare were also now available on Udemy. Well now there’s a third course joining the party, on both Skillshare and Udemy. Setting up Cloudflare – Page Rules deep dive This course follows on from my course on setting up Cloudflare for website security and performance which…
Setting up Cloudflare for website security and performance
I’ve written about Cloudflare a few times before, and always positively, because it’s a great service and you can get so much of it for free (can’t beat that price!). I’ve even gone into a little detail on how I went HTTPS with Cloudflare on my WCG Online project. This time I’ve gone one step further and put together…
CA, CAA and CT in Cloudflare
There’s a lot of acronyms there, so I guess I should start by explaining what I’m talking about! Certificate Authority (CA) A Certificate Authority (CA) is where you go in order to get the certificate for your website, whatever flavour you prefer. They have the power to generate a certificate for any domain, which is…