In the digital age, where every click and connection counts, a sudden outage can feel like a storm hitting your favorite beach day. Recently, cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike faced just such a tempest when their services experienced an unexpected hiccup. But instead of leaving customers in the lurch, they turned to an unconventional gesture of goodwill—a $10 apology gift card! In this blog post, we'll dive into what happened during the outage, how CrowdStrike is making amends with their clients, and whether this unique approach could become a trend in customer service. Buckle up as we explore how even tech giants can stumble—and how they choose to rise back up!
Enabling loopback connections in WordPress means making sure your server can make HTTP requests to itself (e.g., calling https://yoursite.com/wp-cron.php from within itself). Loopback is required for: WP-Cron jobs Plugin/theme editors (to verify file write permissions) Some site health checks ( Tools > Site Health ) Automatic updates ✅ What Is a Loopback Request? A loopback is when your WordPress site tries to request a URL from itself using tools like wp_remote_get() or fsockopen() . For example: $response = wp_remote_get ( home_url ( '/wp-cron.php' ) ); If this fails, you might see warnings in Tools > Site Health like: “Your site could not complete a loopback request.” 🛠 How to Enable Loopback Requests Here are the key steps depending on your hosting/server setup: ✅ 1. Make Sure localhost or Domain Resolves Internally Check your server can resolve requests to itself. Use this quick PHP script: Create a file test-loopback.php i...
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