Hosting, Cost
When Cheap Hosting Becomes Expensive
A $10-a-month hosting plan is genuinely the right choice for many businesses. Here is how to tell when it has stopped being one, before the bill arrives in a form you didn't expect.
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What we see managing a lot of websites and servers
Hosting, WordPress, Cloudflare, AWS, Linux, backups, monitoring and security — explained for the people who have to make decisions about them, not just the people who run them.
Cloudflare, Security
Cloudflare WAF Rules Every Business Website Should Consider
Putting a site behind Cloudflare is the easy part. These are the WAF, rate-limiting and access rules that actually reduce load and risk on a typical business or WordPress site.
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What Actually Causes a Server to Run Out of Memory
Memory exhaustion is the most common cause of a website going down 'for no reason'. Here is what is really happening, in plain language, and the three settings that prevent it.
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5 Reasons WordPress Sites Suddenly Get Slow
A WordPress site that was fine last month and is slow now almost always has one of five causes. Here is how to tell which, in the order we check them.
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