Guides

Hosting guides, in plain English

No affiliate fluff, no "top 10" lists that all rank the same three hosts. Just the concepts, trade-offs and gotchas you'd want a friend who ran servers to explain to you.

Buying guide

How to compare web hosting plans (without getting burned)

Intro vs renewal pricing, SSD vs NVMe, real bandwidth limits, and the fees hosts bury in the fine print.

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Shared hosting

Shared hosting explained: what you get for $3/mo (and what you don't)

Who shared hosting is actually for, when you'll outgrow it, and the CPU / inode / email limits nobody puts on the sales page.

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VPS

VPS hosting explained: managed vs unmanaged, and when to upgrade from shared

How a VPS actually works, the difference between managed and unmanaged, and the specs that matter for a real production site.

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Dedicated

Dedicated servers: when a bare-metal box is worth it (and when it isn't)

Why dedicated still exists in 2026, how it compares to a large VPS or cloud instance, and what to check before you sign a 12-month contract.

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Cloud

Cloud hosting explained: elastic pricing, hidden bills, and picking a region

What 'cloud' really means for a website, how pay-as-you-go pricing turns into surprise invoices, and how to pick a region that keeps latency low.

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WordPress

WordPress hosting: managed vs generic, and what you're actually paying for

Object caching, staging, automatic updates and Core Web Vitals — what managed WordPress hosts include, and when generic shared is enough.

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Reseller

Reseller hosting explained: how agencies and freelancers actually make it work

WHM, cPanel accounts, white-label branding, overselling, and how to price client hosting without eating your own margin.

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