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Every guide to deploying ASP.NET Core on Plesk stops at "dotnet publish and upload the folder". Mine all went wrong after that step. Here are the five errors in the order you meet them, and what each one actually means.

Most guides to running Next.js on IIS assume a VPS you control and a reverse proxy to PM2. On Plesk shared Windows hosting you have neither. Here is the setup that works, and the four failures that cost me the most time.

A production build baked http://localhost:5080 into the live bundle. The cause was a .env.local file that Next.js loads during next build and ranks above .env.production. Here is the precedence order, a ten-line way to prove it on your own project, and the rename that fixes it permanently.

An index is how reads survive scale; idempotency is how writes survive retries. What each one fixes, why composite column order decides everything, and the migration-history failure that showed both ideas meeting.

Move an ASP.NET MVC app to React or Next.js without forking the database or freezing the old site: the shared data layer, the EF migration trap, and the IIS deploy that silently does nothing.

What the evidence says about being quoted in AI answers: how pages get retrieved and cited, what genuinely moves the needle, what makes no difference at all - including a file I added to this site anyway - and how to measure it.

What website maintenance really includes, what each price level buys in India and abroad, the checklist you can run yourself for free, and the questions to ask before signing a monthly plan.

Failing Core Web Vitals? The 2026 thresholds for LCP, INP and CLS, why most sites fail them, and the fixes a developer applies first - in the order that moves the numbers most.

In force since June 2025, with fines attached. Who is exempt, the eight things that fail most often, and how to check your own site in an hour.