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After damaging my old Sennheiser headphones, I picked up a set of OneOdio Professional Closed Back Headphones for ~£20 from that popular e-retail website. At that price, I was not expecting such good sound quality. I was really very surprised and impressed with them. I asked a colleague with...

My recommendation would be a second hand Dell Latitude. For £450 you should be able to get an i7, either with an SSD and 8-16GB RAM or upgrade yourself. Ensure you get one with a Full HD display. These laptops are business grade - which means (a) sturdy and (b) designed so they can be repaired...

Some interesting points of view aired above. WordPress is just a content management system (or CMS for short). There are a good number of them out there. Using a CMS makes a lot of sense in many situations and I wouldn't condemn a website provider for using it. There are other CMSes I prefer...

TalkTalk cannot be trusted with your personal data (multiple breaches) and they can't secure their routers either (Mirai malware). No complaints about Plusnet, although you do get better peering with BT (fewer hops between their network and the destination)

In terms of actually analysing the Wi-Fi issues, I'd recommending installing a WiFi analyser on your phone and doing a site survey. Search for deadspots and contention with neighbouring access points on both 2.4G and 5G. From there you can make the best choices about WiFi channels etc. Are you...

I've been with VM for comfortably over 2 years Downtime has been minimal - constantly reach 30 or 40 days without interruption Downloads have never been throttled ... speed tests always come in at over 200Mb/s Top notch quality peering On first installation, the connection was kapput. Within 48...

We run about 25 of these at work and users seem very happy with them. I don't think they are as tough as the Lattitude laptops so a few have been damaged/repaired and they require a spudger to to take apart. If portability is your thing then I'd definitely recommend them.

It sounds like you need a NAS. Or a storage server. At least 4 bays for RAID6. You can rotate a few large external drives for backups. Or if you are lazy as I was, invest in a second NAS and schedule a nightly/automated backup. If you have decent bandwidth available to you, you could place the...

Are you able to view the web server logs via the shared hosting panel? One possibility, It sounds like you are tripping an intrusion detection system (IDS) that the host maybe running??

Max Wi-Fi speed will depend on the client devices and number of attenae they have. As well as distance from the router, and number of other devices sharing the same access point. The thing with Wi-Fi is that it's not full duplex either. The protocol has congestion control and unless you have an...

FTR I've converted two Wordpress sites to fully use HTTPS with Lets Encrypt*. I can't remember the exact details, but I did have to do something to deal with the image/media links. *Previously used a certificate from my own certificate authority for the admin pages, which was fine as I was the...

Log in to your wordpress site without HTTPS and your VPNFilter pwned modem can be used to sniff the credentials. Your precious website can then be used for crypto mining (if you are lucky) or as a command and control server for a botnet. Worse still, you have a forum for which other people are...

My post served to illustrate the other aspects of an internet connection that could be prioritised instead of bandwidth. VM come fairly near to meeting my uptime requirement and to be fair to them, whenever there has been an issue, they have had an engineer out in 48 hours. But their model is...

For everything that you are hosting on the site, you should be using relative URLs (e.g. /images/image1.png). If you have used absolute URLS (http://mysite.sometld/images/image1.png) then those URLs will need to be changed. It's possible that you could write a script and run it against the...

Yes you do need https. Your host may offer a free lets encrypt certificate. I've certainly got all my sites "secured" using lets encrypt, but then I'm self-hosting so it's relatively easy for me to do. If you are hosting content, I'd look into learning to do this (or paying someone to do it for...