Plain-English writeups on web hosting, privacy-forward infrastructure, domain strategy, and moving your site without downtime. Written by the engineers who actually run the servers.
Your host killed your site with no notice. Here is exactly what to do in the first 24 hours, the 48-hour window where data is reco...
A 2025 Hacker News case documented $200k in losses after Hostinger suspended ~70 sites citing phishing and refused proof. Here is ...
SiteGround shared plans hit CPU quotas that suspend your site and push you to upgrade. Here is what the quotas actually are, what ...
Tickets open for weeks, AI chatbot with no human path, refund requests ignored. Here is why this happens, why it's getting worse i...
Bluehost and HostGator flag your site for malware, then push SiteLock cleanup at $199-$5,250. Why the same corporation owns both, ...
Bluehost, GoDaddy, Hostinger and HostGator all advertise $2.95/mo — then bill $12.99–$24.99/mo at renewal. Here is how the math wo...
GoDaddy, Bluehost, and Namecheap commonly deny refunds after auto-renew fires. Here are the three escalation paths that actually w...
GoDaddy and Bluehost require a phone call to cancel. The FTC's Click-to-Cancel rule says that's illegal. How to use the rule, and ...
GoDaddy ended free email, Bluehost now charges $2/mo per mailbox, Google Domains migrated to Squarespace. Working alternatives for...
Spamhaus lists your Bluehost / HostGator / Hostinger IP because a neighbor spammed. Your legit email lands in spam. How to diagnos...
"Unlimited storage" becomes 200,000 inodes. "Unmetered bandwidth" becomes 50k visits/month. Here is what unlimited really means at...
Bluehost, HostGator, A2 send "you use too many resources — upgrade or be suspended" emails to small sites. Here is how to evaluate...
WP Engine, Kinsta, GoDaddy Managed WP all ban common plugins (UpdraftPlus, WP Super Cache, All-in-One Migration). Full lists and w...
HostGator, Bluehost, and GoDaddy advertise "unmetered" bandwidth. At 50k visits/month, they throttle you to dial-up. Here is what ...
Many "hosts" are white-label resellers running on someone else's infrastructure. Here is how to spot a reseller, why it matters fo...
Why "unlimited" shared hosting silently throttles your CPU, RAM, and I/O — the real resource limits (EP, I/O, IOPS, NPROC) decoded...
Why $2.99/mo web hosting costs $120+/year by year two. The 7 hidden fees every cheap host uses — domain privacy, backups, SSL upse...
Shared hosting vs VPS: exact signals that mean you've outgrown shared, cost comparison, managed vs unmanaged VPS, and the 3 cases ...
99.99% uptime is meaningless if your host can suspend you for any reason. Here's what to look for in hosting Terms of Service befo...
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