From the Engine Room
Straight answers to the hosting questions people actually ask
The arithmetic behind a price, contract clauses put into ordinary words, and fixes that keep working — written by the people who run these servers. Never an affiliate league table.
Pricing · Lead post
What web hosting really costs in 2026
You are drawn in by the introductory figure. What you have actually signed for is the renewal figure. We have set out the three-year sum below, with nothing kept back.
27 July 2026 7 min read
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“Unlimited” hosting: the ceilings are still there, just moved
Hardware has an end to it. 'Unlimited' just means the cap moved into units you have never counted: inodes, CPU seconds, a fair-use clause.
27 July 2026 6 min
Domains
Claiming the free domain that comes with hosting: four details to read first
Year one is genuinely free of charge. Year two is the part that needs reading: what the renewal costs, who holds the registration, and what the terms say about leaving.
27 July 2026 6 min
Operations
99.9% uptime: what that figure permits, and what actually fails
Nines turned into minutes, the incidents that genuinely take a site down, and the way an engineer reads an uptime pledge.
27 July 2026 7 min
WordPress
WordPress speed in 2026: the changes that paid off
Slow-WordPress tickets reach our desk in their hundreds. What genuinely moves the number turns out to be a short, dull list, much shorter than the tuning trade admits.
27 July 2026 8 min
Domains
Which domain ending in 2026? The questions worth asking before you buy
Trust in .com is reflex for most audiences, and it holds until a local ending earns more. How to pick one, whether you run a local firm, a startup, or neither.
27 July 2026 6 min
Business mail in the spam folder: the DNS records that put it right
Hear a customer say 'check your junk folder' and you know the domain failed authentication. Here is what SPF, DKIM and DMARC each prove, plus the 20-minute repair.
27 July 2026 7 min
Migration
Moving web hosts without losing a second
There is one reason a host move goes dark, and it is always the same: somebody switched DNS before anyone had checked the new copy. The safe order, in sequence.
27 July 2026 7 min
Plain Truth
Five shared hosting myths that overcharge beginners
Five beliefs that push beginners into paying over the odds, each one measured against what the support desk sees day to day.
27 July 2026 6 min
Finished reading? Get moving.
Flat renewals, a free move and people answering support — every practice these posts argue for comes with each plan.
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