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Servers, honestly

The Hidden Cost of an Unmanaged VPS

A $12 droplet is cheap until you count the hours. What running your own server actually costs, and the three signs it's time to stop.

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Choosing a server

Managed or Self-Managed VPS: Which Do You Actually Need?

Where the line between the two falls, what each one covers, and the four questions that settle it before you spend anything.

3 min read

Hosting migration guide

Leaving Hostinger: An Honest Migration Checklist

What Hostinger's renewal really costs, what to untangle before you switch, and the one kind of Hostinger site that can't be moved at all.

3 min read

Hosting migration guide

Leaving GoDaddy: An Honest Migration Checklist

What to untangle before you switch hosts, in what order, and the one mistake that locks your domain for 60 days.

2 min read

Hosting pricing, explained

Renewal Price Traps: How Hosts Quietly Triple Your Bill

The intro-price business model explained, the math over three years, and how to audit what your own hosting will really cost.

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WordPress migration guide

How to Switch WordPress Hosts Without Downtime

Move your WordPress site to a new host without an outage: copy first, test, then switch DNS, and know the one window where data can still go astray.

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