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Pricing · Lead post
What web hosting really costs in 2026
The intro rate is bait; the renewal rate is the product you actually bought. Here are the three-year numbers, run in full view.
27 July 2026 7 min read
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“Unlimited” web hosting: where the ceilings actually hide
Hardware is finite. 'Unlimited' really means capped in units you've never counted: inodes, CPU seconds and one fair-use clause.
27 July 2026 6 min
Domains
Free domain with hosting: four checks to run before you claim yours
Year one costs nothing, truly. Year two is where the reading starts: the renewal price, the registrant name, and the exit terms.
27 July 2026 6 min
Operations
99.9% uptime: what the figure permits and what really fails
The nines translated into minutes, the incidents that really cause outages, and an engineer's way of reading an uptime pledge.
27 July 2026 7 min
WordPress
WordPress speed in 2026: the fixes that actually delivered
Hundreds of slow-WordPress tickets cross our desk. The fixes that genuinely move the number are fewer and plainer than the tuning industry admits.
27 July 2026 8 min
Domains
Choosing a domain ending in 2026: the questions that settle it
Most audiences still trust .com by reflex, right up until a local ending earns more. Reasoning out the extension for local firms, startups and everyone else.
27 July 2026 6 min
Why business email ends up in spam, and the DNS records that stop it
The moment a customer says 'check your junk folder', your domain has flunked authentication. What SPF, DKIM and DMARC prove, plus the 20-minute repair.
27 July 2026 7 min
Migration
Changing web hosts without a second of downtime
Host moves only go dark for one reason: DNS got flipped before the new copy was verified. The safe sequence, laid out step by step.
27 July 2026 7 min
Plain Truth
Five shared hosting myths that overcharge beginners
Five beliefs that reliably talk beginners into bigger invoices, taken apart with what we actually see from the support side.
27 July 2026 6 min
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Flat renewals, free migration and humans answering support — every practice these posts argue for ships with each plan.
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