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Modern SaaS illustration showing website contact form spam protection using honeypot fields, invisible reCAPTCHA v3, Cloudflare Turnstile, bot detection, and secure email form submission.
Websites & Hosting

How to Stop Spam Submissions on Your Website Contact Forms

Stop contact form spam using a honeypot hidden field plus invisible verification like reCAPTCHA v3 or Cloudflare Turnstile. Avoid reCAPTCHA v2 checkboxes, which hurt conversion and accessibility. Note: reCAPTCHA's free tier is now capped at 10,000 assessments/month after its 2025 Google Cloud migration.

Modern SaaS illustration showing a website disappearing from Google search results with Search Console diagnostics, noindex tags, robots.txt, expired domain checks, SSL monitoring, and SEO troubleshooting tools.
Websites & Hosting

Why Did My Website Disappear from Google?

Use site:yourdomain.com first to check if pages are indexed or ranking dropped. If zero results, check for domain expiration, noindex tags, robots.txt blocks, or a Manual Action in Search Console under Security & Manual Actions. Never redesign your site before diagnosing the cause.

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DNS

How to Find and Fix Redirect Chains on Your Website

A redirect chain (A > B > C) wastes crawl budget and slows load times. Googlebot abandons chains after roughly 10 hops. The most common cause is HTTP to HTTPS to WWW stacking. Fix by flattening .htaccess or Nginx rules into a single 301 redirect straight to the final URL.

Cybersecurity illustration showing protection against lookalike domain phishing using defensive domain registration, DMARC, SPF, DKIM, and brand security to block spoofed emails and homoglyph attacks.
Domain Name Search

How to Protect Your Brand from Lookalike Domain Phishing

Homoglyph attacks use visually identical characters from other alphabets to fake your domain. BEC caused $3.05 billion in losses in 2025 per FBI IC3. Defend with proactive domain registration across TLDs plus DMARC p=reject; DMARC alone cannot stop lookalike domains, since they are separate valid domains.

Modern SaaS illustration showing a Cloudflare reverse proxy protecting a website while auditing origin IP exposure through historical DNS records, SSL certificate logs, subdomains, and firewall security.
DNS

How to Find the Origin IP Address Behind Cloudflare

Audit your own Cloudflare setup for origin IP exposure: unprotected MX and subdomains, historical DNS records, and certificate transparency logs. Enabling the orange cloud alone does not erase a previously public IP. Lock the origin firewall to Cloudflare's IP ranges to close the gap.

Modern SaaS illustration showing a custom domain connected to a Medium publication using A records, with DNS management, blogging platform settings, branded website, and secure content publishing infrastructure.
DNS

How to Connect a Custom Domain to Medium

Connect a custom domain to Medium (profile or publication) using two A records: 162.159.153.4 and 162.159.152.4 on host @. Disable any proxy service first; Medium requires DNS-only resolution. Verification takes up to three days. Subdirectories are not supported.

Modern SaaS illustration showing a cPanel primary domain change, comparing addon and primary domains, with server migration, website backups, hosting support, databases, and email configuration.
Websites & Hosting

How to Change Your Primary Domain Name in cPanel

Changing a cPanel primary domain requires hosting support, not self-service, because it's a WHM-level root account change. At NameSilo, request via 24/7 live chat; the hosting team rebuilds the plan, typically within a few hours. Back up all files and databases first; data is not recoverable.

Modern SaaS illustration comparing SPF SoftFail (~all) and HardFail (-all), showing DNS TXT record configuration, spam filtering versus email rejection, and email authentication with SPF and DMARC.
DNS

What is an SPF Record SoftFail vs. HardFail (~all vs. -all)?

SPF ~all (SoftFail) marks unauthorized mail as suspicious but delivers it to spam. SPF -all (HardFail) rejects it outright. Start new deployments with ~all, monitor DMARC reports for 2-4 weeks, then switch to -all once your sender list is confirmed complete.

Modern SaaS illustration showing a custom domain connected to a Cargo portfolio using nameserver delegation, with registrar nameserver settings and Cargo Publish Settings for professional portfolio branding.
DNS

How to Connect a Custom Domain to a Cargo Portfolio

Cargo's current platform uses nameserver delegation, not A records. Point your domain to ns1.cargo.site and ns2.cargo.site from NameSilo's Domain Manager, then add the domain in Cargo's Publish Settings. Requires an active Site Upgrade. Email records are preserved automatically.

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