Hosting guides
The decisions behind the buy buttons — explained the way we’d explain them across a table, with the trade-offs left in.
How to choose web hosting
The umbrella decision, made honest: three questions that determine your hosting rung — and why price is the last thing to compare, not the first.
Shared vs VPS vs dedicated vs cloud
Four words that describe one thing: how much machine you get, and how much of its care you inherit. What actually changes between the hosting types.
Managed vs unmanaged hosting
The most mispriced decision in hosting: comparing a managed plan to a raw server, when the real comparison is against your own hours — or a hire.
WordPress hosting done right
WordPress runs on every rung of the hosting ladder — the real question is who operates it, and what your traffic makes acceptable.
E-commerce hosting: hosted vs self-hosted
Selling online is a different hosting question: assemble the stack yourself around WooCommerce, or subscribe to the whole thing as a platform. The trade, priced honestly.
The developer cloud: droplets, IaaS and when you've outgrown panels
When hosting panels start feeling like guardrails, the cloud's raw layer is waiting: instances, storage and networks as building blocks. What you gain, what you take on.
Migrating a site without downtime
Moving hosts is routine, not surgery — if you respect the 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 must click together: the name you rent, the records that point it, and the certificate that secures it. The chain, link by link.