Recent content by lancej1022

At the end of the day, the theme size determines the speed of the theme itself, but then from there you are going to add in plugins which will likely have a much larger effect than the theme itself. Personally, because I build my pages with Elementor, I use the Hello Theme by the Elementor team...

Getting a Sucuri Firewall would help a bit since it has DDOS protection, although there's a few things to consider. First of all, have you actually confirmed you have a DDOS attack? There's a lot of reasons your CPU can max out, and DDOS is only one of them. I'd start by confirming that you're...

It's mildly annoying but you have to realize that they take "search before you ask" very seriously over there, and for good reason. 99% of the time you get a downvote it's for one of three reasons: 1. You're asking something that has an answer that is easily found by searching the existing...

Running mac on a virtual machine would be your best bet. I don't think I've ever seen a VPS running anything other than a windows OS (ie Plesk) or a Linux OS

The big thing would be the trademark. If you've rebuilt the site WITHOUT using their old content, then you're not violating copyright, but they may still be able to perform a cease and desist if they trademarked the domain. I'd investigate to see if they have an actual trademark first...

If it helps, anytime you see something like: //made up text here// ^^that's simply a commented out line that doesn't get interpreted by engines or visitors. You may also see something like <!-- blah blah text here --> as a commented line if it's an html site/page.

Thanks for sharing, I'd be particularly interested in the Google reviews one!