Latest posts
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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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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.
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Shared or VPS: I Run Both, Here Is the Difference
I pay for a Hostinger shared plan and a KVM 1 VPS at the same time. What each one costs at renewal, what each one asks of me, and what I measured myself.
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What You Are Actually Buying When You Buy Hosting
A beginner guide built from one real request to this blog: what each step of loading a page pays for, what sits in the folder, and what a plan leaves out.
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Moving a Site to WordPress Without Leaving Ghosts Behind
I left an old static version of this site live for months after moving to WordPress. How to close old URLs properly with 301s, 410s, robots.txt and checks.
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The Checklist I Run Before Putting a Site on a Host
Eight questions I ask before paying for a web host, each one added after I got it wrong: renewal price, caching, backups, published limits and leaving.
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Managed vs Unmanaged: What I Have to Do Myself
The jobs my shared plan does for me, the same jobs on my own VPS, a rough count of the hours, and the certificate problem nothing on the server reported.