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Arguments about hosting companies rather than instructions — who owns them, what they really cost, where the marketing diverges from the invoice. The guides are the practical half.

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developers

What developers should check before choosing a host

10 September 2026

SSH, WP-CLI, Git deploys, staging, PHP version control and log access — the features that decide whether a host is workable, and who has them.

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industry

Who actually owns your web host?

6 September 2026

Four companies control a startling proportion of the hosting brands you have heard of. Here is the ownership map, and why it shows up in your support tickets.

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review

GoDaddy, assessed honestly

30 August 2026

It is fashionable to sneer at GoDaddy. Some of that is deserved and some of it is snobbery — here is which is which, and when it is genuinely the right choice.

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uk

Is UK hosting actually worth it? The latency numbers

20 August 2026

How much a London data centre is really worth in milliseconds, when a CDN makes it irrelevant, and the non-speed reason that matters more than either.

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sustainability

Green hosting claims, ranked by how much they mean

12 August 2026

Almost every host now claims to be green. The claims are not equivalent — here is the hierarchy, from carbon negative to a certificate someone bought.

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uk

What happened to Heart Internet, and what it taught UK hosting

4 August 2026

A major British host was acquired, wound down, and its customers migrated to a company founded by its own former team. The most instructive story in UK hosting.

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reliability

What a 99.9% uptime guarantee is actually worth

30 July 2026

Nine hours of permitted downtime, a refund you have to claim yourself, and definitions of "downtime" that exclude most of what breaks. Reading the SLA properly.

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pricing

What "unlimited hosting" is actually limited by

25 July 2026

Inodes, entry processes, CPU seconds, I/O throttling and monthly visit caps — the real constraints on a plan advertised as having none.

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static

When free hosting is the right answer

14 July 2026

Cloudflare Pages, Netlify and Vercel will host a site for nothing, faster than anything you can buy. The catch is what they cannot run, and the licence terms nobody reads.

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reliability

When your host has a very bad day

26 June 2026

A data centre burned down in 2021 and took thousands of businesses with it. The lesson was not "avoid that host" — it was that almost nobody had a backup they controlled.

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industry

cPanel put its prices up, and hosting quietly changed

18 June 2026

A licensing change at one software vendor reshaped budget hosting, pushed several hosts onto their own panels, and is the reason your host may have moved your cheese.

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value

Eight signs it is time to leave your web host

6 June 2026

Most people stay with a bad host for years past the point of sense, because migrating feels risky. Here is how to tell when staying is the riskier option.

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