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So what does web hosting actually cost in 2026?
Treat the signup price as an advert; the renewal is the actual product. Three-year arithmetic on 'cheap' hosting, done properly.
27 July 2026 7 min read
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The truth about “unlimited” web hosting
Infinite disk does not exist on any server. Read 'unlimited' as marketing shorthand for 'capped by things nobody told you about': inodes, CPU seconds, fair-use clauses buried in the terms.
27 July 2026 6 min
Domains
Before you claim that free domain with hosting, read this
Year one really is free. Everything worth asking concerns year two: the renewal figure, whose name sits on the registration, and how much effort walking away costs you.
27 July 2026 6 min
Operations
99.9% uptime: what it really means, and what really breaks
Nines converted into minutes. The failures that genuinely knock sites offline. Plus how to read an uptime SLA the way an engineer would, rather than a marketer.
27 July 2026 7 min
WordPress
What actually makes WordPress faster in 2026
Hundreds of slow-WordPress tickets pass through our desk. What genuinely works is a shorter, duller list than the optimization industry would have you believe.
27 July 2026 8 min
Domains
Domain extensions in 2026: how to choose, and what counts
Trust still defaults to .com, apart from the places where it doesn't. Here's the extension decision reasoned out for local traders, startups and everybody sitting in between.
27 July 2026 6 min
Your business email keeps landing in spam, and here are the DNS records that fix it
A customer telling you to 'check your spam folder' means your domain is failing authentication. Here's what SPF, DKIM and DMARC each do, plus the 20-minute fix.
27 July 2026 7 min
Migration
How to switch web hosts without downtime
Only one thing takes a site down during a host move: somebody switched DNS before the new copy had been proven. Here's the right order, spelled out.
27 July 2026 7 min
Plain Truth
Five shared hosting beliefs that quietly cost beginners money
Five beliefs that separate beginners from their money more reliably than anything else, set against what the support desk actually sees.
27 July 2026 6 min
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