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Step-by-step guides for hosting, domains, mailboxes and WordPress. 100 guides in the lineup, each one brought up to speed for 2026.
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The complete how-to lineup
How to Add an Addon Domain
Host a second site on the same account while keeping the pair cleanly separated — rated beginner, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Add Google Analytics
Understand your audience properly, with consent handled the right way round — rated beginner, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Add SSL to WordPress
Deliver every page over https with the padlock holding firm on all of them — rated beginner, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Add TXT Records for Verification
Prove you own the domain to Google, Microsoft or any service that asks for it — rated beginner, about 5 minutes per service.
Read the full guideHow to Back Up WordPress
Run backups that exist, restore cleanly, and hold up on the day they are needed — rated beginner, about 30 minutes of setup.
Read the full guideHow to Block Unwanted Visitors by IP
Turn a persistent pest away at the perimeter, with clear eyes about what the tool cannot do — rated intermediate, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Build a Landing Page That Converts
One page with a single job, and the numbers that prove it is doing it — rated beginner, about an afternoon.
Read the full guideHow to Change Nameservers
Hand a domain's DNS to a different provider with every record arriving in one piece — rated beginner, about 5 minutes plus propagation.
Read the full guideHow to Change Your PHP Version
Move your sites onto a quicker, still-supported PHP release without anything falling over — rated beginner, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Check DNS Propagation
Find out whether the internet has taken up your DNS change, and why some corners have not — rated beginner, about 5 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Choose a Domain Name
Land on a name that still sounds right after years of saying it every day — rated beginner, about an evening of thought.
Read the full guideHow to Choose a WordPress Theme
Pick a theme you'll still be glad about two years and two redesigns from now — rated beginner, about an evening of evaluation.
Read the full guideHow to Clean Up a Hacked Website
A real recovery from a break-in rather than the visible damage tidied away — rated advanced, about half a day, done properly.
Read the full guideHow to Clean Up the WordPress Database
Flush out years of accumulated clutter and leave a database that responds faster — rated intermediate, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Connect a CDN
Serve assets from close to your visitors, in the cases where that genuinely pays — rated intermediate, about an hour.
Read the full guideHow to Connect to a VPS with SSH
Reach the command line safely, then stop using a password to get there — rated intermediate, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Connect With FTP and FileZilla
Move files in bulk with the standard desktop client, encrypted from end to end — rated beginner, about 15 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Create a Contact Form
A form visitors actually complete, sending mail that actually arrives — rated beginner, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Create a MySQL Database
A database, a user, and the privileges tying them together — the three things every installer asks for — rated beginner, about 5 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Create a Professional Email Signature
Build a signature that renders everywhere and sells without shouting — rated beginner, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Create a Subdomain
Put blog.yourdomain or app.yourdomain live in less time than it takes to make coffee — rated beginner, about 5 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Create a WordPress Child Theme
Customise a theme so the next update rolls through without erasing your work — rated intermediate, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Create an Email Account in cPanel
Stand up a working you@yourdomain mailbox in around five minutes — rated beginner, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Create an Email Forwarder
Steer an address to wherever the person answering it actually reads their mail — rated beginner, about 3 minutes each.
Read the full guideHow to Create an SPF Record
Declare publicly which servers may send email under your domain's name — rated intermediate, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Deploy a Site with Git
Replace uploading files by hand with a deployment you can repeat and undo — rated advanced, about an hour.
Read the full guideHow to Edit DNS Records
Add and amend A, CNAME, MX and TXT records without disturbing what already works — rated beginner, about 5 minutes per record.
Read the full guideHow to Enable LiteSpeed Caching
Turn the server's cache engine on and verify it is genuinely delivering hits — rated beginner, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Enable Two-Factor Authentication
Render a stolen password worthless on every login worth defending — rated beginner, about 15 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Enable WHOIS Privacy
Keep your personal address and phone number off the public registration record — rated beginner, about 2 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Fix a WordPress 500 Error
Trace an internal server error straight back to its actual cause — rated intermediate, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Fix Common SSL Errors
Decode each browser warning into the specific repair it is requesting — rated intermediate, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Fix the WordPress White Screen
Identify what's producing the blank page and clear it step by step — rated intermediate, about 20–40 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Force HTTPS on Your Site
Every arrival sent to the encrypted address, with nobody left behind on http — rated beginner, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Free Up Mailbox Storage
Reclaim space before senders start collecting bounce messages — rated beginner, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Harden a Site With .htaccess
A few deliberate lines that put defences at the server, in front of your application — rated advanced, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Hide the WordPress Login Page
Move wp-login off the URL every bot on the internet has memorised — rated intermediate, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Install a LAMP Stack
Get Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP serving a real page on your own server — rated intermediate, about 45 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Install an SSL Certificate
A certificate issued, fitted and renewing itself, often before you think to ask — rated beginner, about 0–20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Install WooCommerce
Get a working shop onto WordPress and push a test order all the way through — rated beginner, about 45 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Install WordPress
Have WordPress live and answering on your domain within ten minutes — rated beginner, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Install WordPress Plugins Safely
Bolt on the features you need without adopting somebody's orphaned code — rated beginner, about 5 minutes for each plugin, and a very long time for a bad one.
Read the full guideHow to Keep Site Software Updated
A routine that patches your software's holes before anyone gets around to exploiting them — rated beginner, about 15 minutes weekly.
Read the full guideHow to Lazy Load Images and Video
Withhold offscreen media until the reader has nearly scrolled to it — rated beginner, about 15 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Log In to cPanel
Get into your control panel every time, by whichever door suits the moment — rated beginner, about 2 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Migrate a WordPress Site
Shift a WordPress site onto a new host without a single visitor noticing a gap — rated intermediate, about 1–2 hours, or one free ticket to us.
Read the full guideHow to Migrate Email to a New Host
Relocate mailboxes to a new host with full history preserved and zero losses — rated intermediate, about 1–2 hours, or one support ticket.
Read the full guideHow to Minify CSS and JavaScript
Slim down and reorder how code reaches the browser, without wrecking the site on the way — rated intermediate, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Monitor Website Uptime
Hear about an outage from a monitor rather than from a customer — rated beginner, about 20 minutes of setup.
Read the full guideHow to Move a Website to a New Domain
Rebrand onto a new domain while keeping the rankings and the returning visitors — rated intermediate, about an afternoon plus monitoring.
Read the full guideHow to Optimize a MySQL Database
Hold query speed steady while the data accumulates year on year — rated advanced, about an hour.
Read the full guideHow to Optimize Images for the Web
Halve the heaviest part of most pages, then keep it that way — rated beginner, about an hour for the backlog, seconds after that.
Read the full guideHow to Park an Extra Domain
Turn the idle names you hold into something useful instead of a dead end — rated beginner, about 5 minutes each.
Read the full guideHow to Password Protect a Folder
Put a login at the server's edge of a folder, ahead of any code your site runs — rated beginner, about 5 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Pick a WordPress Page Builder
Decide between the block editor and a builder plugin with the trade-offs in plain view — rated beginner, about an evening of testing.
Read the full guideHow to Point a Domain to Your Hosting
Connect a domain registered anywhere to the hosting account built to serve it — rated beginner, about 10 minutes plus propagation.
Read the full guideHow to Protect Forms From Spam
Shut down the bot deluge without forcing genuine customers to prove their humanity — rated beginner, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Publish a DMARC Policy
Instruct receiving servers on how to treat mail that flunks your authentication — rated intermediate, about 15 minutes plus a monitoring month.
Read the full guideHow to Put WordPress in Maintenance Mode
Screen off work in progress until it's actually ready for an audience — rated beginner, about 5 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Read Your Website Statistics
Read your traffic straight out of the server's own logs, with nothing to install — rated beginner, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Reduce Server Response Time
Shrink the pause before the very first byte departs the server — rated intermediate, about an afternoon.
Read the full guideHow to Register a Domain Name
Search once, settle on the ending that suits the job, and have the name on your account by this evening — rated beginner, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Reset Your WordPress Password
Regain wp-admin access through whichever legitimate route remains open — rated beginner, about 5–15 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Restore From a Backup
Get files, database, or both back without panic, and no further back than necessary — rated beginner, about 10–30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Scan a Site for Malware
Settle the question — compromised or clean — with tools that can actually tell — rated intermediate, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Schedule Server Backups
Get backups running unattended, stored elsewhere, and proved to restore — rated intermediate, about an hour.
Read the full guideHow to Secure a New VPS
Close the obvious doors in the first hour, before anything is listening in earnest — rated intermediate, about an hour.
Read the full guideHow to Secure WordPress
Shut the doors WordPress attackers actually use — rated intermediate, about an hour of setup.
Read the full guideHow to Secure Your Email Account
Defend the one account capable of resetting every other account you hold — rated beginner, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Secure Your Hosting Account
Harden the single account that carries every site you operate — rated beginner, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Send Email From WordPress Reliably
Get form notifications and order confirmations landing in real inboxes — rated beginner, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Custom Error Pages
Convert a dead end into a well-signed junction that keeps the visitor moving — rated beginner, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up 301 Redirects
Relocate addresses without shedding the visitors or rankings attached to them — rated intermediate, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up a Catch-All Address
Work out whether catching mistyped addresses is worth what it costs, then set it up safely — rated intermediate, about 30 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up a Cron Job
Give a script a schedule it can be trusted to keep while you look elsewhere — rated intermediate, about 15 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up a Firewall with UFW
Get default-deny filtering running without locking yourself out of the machine — rated intermediate, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up an Email Autoresponder
Run out-of-office and acknowledgement replies that stay on their best behaviour — rated beginner, about 5 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up Browser Caching
Teach browsers to keep your assets, so a return visit is almost instant — rated intermediate, about 15 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up DKIM Signing
Cryptographically sign outgoing mail so spoofing and tampering both surface — rated intermediate, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up Domain Forwarding
Route everyone who visits one domain straight on to another — rated beginner, about 5 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up Email in Outlook
Get your domain mailbox running properly inside desktop Outlook — rated beginner, about 5 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up Email on Your Phone
Get your domain mailbox onto iOS Mail or Android with everything staying in step — rated beginner, about 5 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up MX Records
Direct your domain's inbound email to the mail service that should handle it — rated intermediate, about 10 minutes plus propagation.
Read the full guideHow to Set Up WordPress Caching
Get LiteSpeed Cache set up properly at the first attempt — rated beginner, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Speed Up WordPress
Strip load times down using the few changes that actually move the needle — rated intermediate, about an afternoon.
Read the full guideHow to Start a Blog on Your Domain
Publish on ground you own, structured so the effort compounds — rated beginner, about an afternoon.
Read the full guideHow to Stop a Domain Expiring
Build a setup where accidentally losing a domain becomes impossible — rated beginner, about 10 minutes of setup, and then it looks after itself.
Read the full guideHow to Stop Your Email Going to Spam
Diagnose why your mail gets filtered and rebuild its reputation the right way — rated intermediate, about an afternoon.
Read the full guideHow to Submit a Sitemap to Google
Give search engines a complete chart of everything you want crawled — rated beginner, about 15 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Take Payments Online
Collect money safely without dragging card data onto your own server — rated beginner, about an hour.
Read the full guideHow to Test Your Website Speed
Measure honestly, so whatever work follows aims at evidence rather than guesswork — rated beginner, about 20 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Transfer a Domain
Shift a domain between registrars while the website keeps running untouched — rated beginner, about roughly 15 minutes of work, and up to 5 days before the transfer completes.
Read the full guideHow to Understand Website Firewalls
Understand what a web application firewall does, where it sits, and what you might ever change — rated intermediate, about 20 minutes of reading.
Read the full guideHow to Update WordPress Safely
Keep everything current without gambling on what each update might break — rated beginner, about 20 minutes per cycle.
Read the full guideHow to Upload Files With File Manager
Get files onto your site from a browser tab, with no FTP software involved — rated beginner, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Use a WordPress Staging Site
Test every risky change on a copy the public never sees — rated beginner, about 10 minutes to set up, and hours saved on a regular basis.
Read the full guideHow to Use phpMyAdmin
Read, export and carefully change your database through the panel's built-in window — rated intermediate, about 20 minutes to learn.
Read the full guideHow to Use the Softaculous Installer
Put any of hundreds of applications live in a click, and configure it properly on the way — rated beginner, about 10 minutes.
Read the full guideHow to Write a robots.txt
Steer crawlers sensibly, and avoid the self-inflicted injuries this file is famous for — rated intermediate, about 15 minutes.
Read the full guideWordPress SEO First Steps
Nail the fundamentals so a brand-new site can actually be discovered — rated beginner, about an hour.
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