Latest posts
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The Plugins I Keep, and the One I Just Removed
Four plugins, three that came with the hosting, and why I am removing my consent plugin: the feature I installed it for only exists in the paid version.
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How I Build a Small Business Site, Start to Finish
The exact order I actually work in: domain, hosting, static or WordPress, plus where building with an AI helped me and where it quietly broke my ad code.
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Wix vs WordPress, After Running Both
Wix and WordPress compared from real projects: what Wix solved in one evening, the limit that stopped me, the maintenance WordPress adds, and leaving.
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WordPress.com vs WordPress.org: What Changes When You Host It Yourself
WordPress.com prices as published on 20 September 2026 against what my self-hosted WordPress costs, and the four things that change when you hold the files.
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Website Builders I Have Run, and What Closing Them Was Like
What Wix and Shopify are really like from signup to cancellation, what each one lets you take away with you, and why I kept self-hosted WordPress instead.
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How to Read a Hosting Uptime Guarantee
What 99.9% uptime allows in hours, the four questions a guarantee has to survive, and why this site will not publish a figure without 30 days of monitoring.
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Pointing a Domain at Your Host Without Downtime
Nameservers or records, the inventory to take before you touch anything, the TTL trick that makes the switch instant and the checks I run from the terminal.
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Do You Need a CDN? What Changed on My Sites
I checked whether a CDN changes anything on sites I actually pay for: the edge showed up in the TLS handshake, not in the cache. Measured on 20 Sep 2026.
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I Thought My Blog Was Cached. It Was Not
My WordPress blog returned no page-cache header. How I checked it with curl, the time-to-first-byte numbers before I fix it, and what they cannot prove.
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What I Pay for Hosting, Domains and Email
No invented invoices. What I actually hold, what the same plans cost today with entry and renewal prices dated 20 September 2026, and what I could not price.