Hosting guides
The decisions behind the buy buttons, explained with the trade-offs left in.
How to choose web hosting
Three questions decide the hosting rung: what is being run, who operates it, and what failure costs. Price is the last thing to compare, not the first.
Shared vs VPS vs dedicated vs cloud
Four words for one thing: how much machine a site gets, and how much of its care comes with it. What changes between the hosting types.
Managed vs unmanaged hosting
The most mispriced decision in hosting: a managed plan compared with a raw server, when the comparison that counts is against the owner's hours, or a hire.
WordPress hosting done right
WordPress runs on every rung of the hosting ladder; the question is who operates it, and what the traffic makes acceptable.
E-commerce hosting: hosted vs self-hosted
Selling online is a different hosting question: assemble the stack around WooCommerce, or subscribe to the whole thing as a platform. The trade, priced in full.
The developer cloud: droplets, IaaS and life after panels
When hosting panels start to feel like guardrails, the cloud's raw layer is waiting: instances, storage and networks as building blocks. What it gives, and what it demands.
Migrating a site without downtime
Moving hosts is routine, not surgery, under one rule: the old site keeps running until the new one is proven. The sequence, step by step.
Domains, DNS and SSL: the setup chain explained
Before any hosting works, three pieces have to click together: the name that is rented, the records that point it, and the certificate that secures it. The chain, link by link.
Last reviewed 3 October 2026 · Getting Digital