Practical guides to choosing, securing and running a website.
A low introductory price helps you start cheaply, but does not tell you what running the website will cost later. Compare plans across the whole…
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'We create backups automatically' sounds reassuring. For a working website, it matters more to know exactly what a copy contains, how old it is and…
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A VPS gives you more freedom than ordinary shared hosting. That freedom also brings work that may not appear on a product card. Judge the…
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An online shop needs more than space for a product catalog. At a critical moment, the cart, order, payment and customer message must all work…
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Moving to a more expensive server may help if the application lacks resources. But a site with very large images, many scripts or an inefficient…
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An availability figure looks clear until you ask what is measured and how an outage is judged. When choosing hosting, read the SLA together with…
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A successful migration is more than a copy of the files. You also need to move the database and application settings, prepare a certificate, and…
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Your website and email can run with different providers. It therefore helps to decide separately on web hosting, mailboxes and messages sent by the…
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The lock icon in the address bar depends on the domain, server and a valid certificate working together. HTTPS protects traffic between a browser…
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A label such as 'hosting for a content management system' does not tell you how easy your site will be to operate. Before buying, compare the…
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A large storage figure does not tell you how quickly your website will run. What matters is the combination of capacity, performance limits and the…
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Your website address, DNS settings and web space often appear on one invoice. They are still three different things. Knowing which one has failed…
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