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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
The opening rate is the lure; the renewal rate is what you have really bought. Here is the three-year arithmetic, done in the open.
27 July 2026 7 min read
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“Unlimited” web hosting: where the ceilings are really kept
Hardware runs out. 'Unlimited' means capped in units nobody has ever counted: inodes, CPU seconds and a fair-use clause.
27 July 2026 6 min
Domains
A free domain with hosting: four things to check before you claim one
The first year really does cost nothing. The second year is where the reading begins: the renewal price, the registrant, and the terms for leaving.
27 July 2026 6 min
Operations
99.9% uptime: what the number allows and what really breaks
The nines converted into minutes, the incidents that actually cause outages, and how an engineer reads an uptime pledge.
27 July 2026 7 min
WordPress
WordPress speed in 2026: the fixes that actually delivered
Hundreds of slow-WordPress tickets pass across our desk. The fixes that actually shift the number are fewer and plainer than the tuning industry lets on.
27 July 2026 8 min
Domains
Picking a domain ending in 2026: the questions that decide it
Most audiences trust .com by reflex, right up to the point where a local ending earns more. Working out the ending for local firms, startups and everybody else.
27 July 2026 6 min
Why business mail lands in spam, and the DNS records that stop it
The moment a customer says 'check your junk folder', your domain has failed authentication. What SPF, DKIM and DMARC prove, and the 20-minute repair.
27 July 2026 7 min
Migration
Moving web hosts without losing a second
Host moves go dark for one reason only: DNS was flipped before the new copy had been checked. Here is the safe order, step by step.
27 July 2026 7 min
Plain Truth
Five shared hosting myths that overcharge beginners
Five beliefs that reliably talk beginners into bigger invoices, taken apart against what we actually see from the support side.
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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