Guides, tutorials and answers for running a website — written for people who need the thing fixed, not sold to.
Step-by-step walkthroughs for the jobs you actually have to do — installing WordPress, pointing a domain, moving a site, fixing what broke.
300 guides FAQsDirect answers to the questions people ask us most, one question per page, without the sales pitch.
120 FAQs BlogComparisons, explainers and plain-English background on how hosting, domains and the web actually work.
80 articlesEighteen sections covering everything from a first login to a server migration.
Your first hour with a new hosting account.
26 articles WordPressInstalling, securing, updating and repairing WordPress.
43 articles EmailMailboxes, clients, forwarding and deliverability.
33 articles Domains & DNSNameservers, records, transfers and propagation.
36 articles SSL & SecurityCertificates, HTTPS, malware and hardening.
28 articles Control PanelFinding your way around the hosting panel.
26 articles Databases & MySQLMySQL users, phpMyAdmin, backups and repairs.
24 articles PHP & DevelopmentVersions, extensions, limits, cron and the shell.
28 articles Migrations & TransfersMoving a site or a domain in, without downtime.
22 articles Speed & PerformanceCaching, images, Core Web Vitals and slow sites.
28 articles Backups & RecoveryTaking backups, and restoring when it counts.
20 articles Errors & TroubleshootingSpecific error messages, and how to clear them.
44 articles VPS & ServersRoot access, SSH, firewalls and server basics.
30 articles Reseller HostingRunning a hosting business on our platform.
22 articles Ecommerce & WooCommerceOnline stores, checkout, payments and PCI basics.
26 articles FTP & File ManagementUploading, permissions and where files belong.
20 articles Billing & AccountInvoices, renewals, upgrades and cancellations.
18 articles SEO & MarketingGetting found once the site is live.
26 articlesMost small sites have a backup, but no plan for actually using it — write the decisions down before you need them, not during.
A monthly WordPress maintenance checklistThe routine checks that keep a WordPress site from quietly accumulating problems, done monthly rather than only when something breaks.
A practical website security checklistThe handful of specific, checkable things that account for most of what a secure website setup actually needs, in the order to do them.
A tour of your hosting control panelThe main sections you will find in your control panel and roughly what lives in each one.
Can I get root access on shared hosting?No, shared hosting is a server shared between many customers, so nobody gets root on it.
Can I use a domain I bought somewhere else?Yes — a domain registered anywhere can be hosted with us without ever moving its actual registration.
Core Web Vitals, explained without the jargonWhat LCP, CLS and INP actually measure, why Google picked these three, and the published thresholds for each.
Do I need billing software to resell hosting?Not for your first few clients, but manual invoicing stops being manageable well before you might expect it to.
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